SKU: HL.14033730
9.0x12.0x0.157 inches. English.
Eduardo Toldra (1895-1962) was a Catalan virtuoso violinist, conductor, and composer, whose students included Ros-Marba and Montsalvatge. His compositional work consists largely of songs, folk dances, operas, and orchestral pieces; rather traditional in style, it was initially dismissed as old-fashioned compared to many of his contemporaries. Today however, a revival in interest in Catalan folk music and its influences mean he is growing in popularity.
Coleccion De Canciones: Volume 1 gathers together some of his best-loved songs for Voice and Piano, showcasing his simple, warm, lyrical style. From the early Abril (1920) toAquarel-la Del Montseny (1960), this collection spans most of his career, and forms a valuable addition to any vocalist's repertoire.
SKU: CF.SC89L
William Grant Still’s catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American” by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Still’s orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals.This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers.”The “Black belt” refers to a region in the southern United States that was distinguished by the color of its fertile soil. It was an area whose rich economy was based on cotton and tobacco plantations that were controlled by rich white people and worked by poor black laborers. Still’s piece From the Black Belt from 1926 is presumably a musical representation of these laborers. He described its seven parts in the following ways: William Grant Still’s catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American” by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Still’s orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals.This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers.”The “Black belt” refers to a region in the southern United States that was distinguished by the color of its fertile soil. It was an area whose rich economy was based on cotton and tobacco plantations that were controlled by rich white people and worked by poor black laborers. Still’s piece From the Black Belt from 1926 is presumably a musical representation of these laborers. He described its seven parts in the following ways: Li’l Scamp If one were to base his judgment on the volume of sound, he would think this little fellow, who delights in playing childish pranks, a big scamp. But the aptness of the title is determined by the brevity of the piece rather than by the volume of sound. Honeysuckle A musical suggestion of the saccharine odor of the honeysuckle. Dance This title is self-explanatory. Brown GirlA tone picture of a lovely girl. Mah Bones Is Creakin’An old man, afflicted with rheumatism, complains loudly. BlueThe lament of a weary soul. Clap Yo’ Han’sThe participants in a game for children form a circle and clap their hands at intervals.
SKU: HL.50603593
ISBN 9788881920709. UPC: 840126945102. 8.0x10.5x1.3 inches. Italian-English.
Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia was premiered at Milan's Teatro alla Scala on 26 December 1833 and is considered one of the composer's most important and innovative operas of the 1830s. Although, because of censorship issues, particularly in the south of Italy, it was initially slow to become popular, by the late 1830s it had become one of the composer's most popular operas, both in Italy and abroad, and remained an essential part of the composer's oeuvre until at least the end of the nineteenth century. Remarkable for its daring subject matter (with an unconventional, forceful heroine), it is also renowned for its challenging mixture of the comic and the tragic, something very unusual at the time and clearly an important influence on Giuseppe Verdi's middle period masterpieces. The present reduction for voice and piano derives from the critical edition of the score, recently published in this catalog: is based on Donizetti's autograph manuscript (housed in the Ricordi Archives in Milan), on the libretto for the premiere, on several printed editions of voice and piano, and on numerous additional scores of the period. It presents for the first time all the numerous additions that the composer made to the score over the course of ten years: a fascinating record of his changing music dramatic attitudes during this period. There is also a synthetic historical reconstruction of the genesis of the opera and of the description of the Sources as well as a selection of most interest to singers of Critical Commentary Notes.Rappresentata per la prima volta al Teatro alla Scala il 26 dicembre 1833, Lucrezia Borgia e considerata una fra le piu importanti e innovative opere di Donizetti. Sebbene le resistenze della censura, soprattutto nel sud Italia, ne causarono inizialmente una lenta diffusione, dalla fine degli anni '30 dell'Ottocento essa divenne uno dei lavori piu popolari e significativi del compositore e tale rimase fino alla fine del XIX secolo. Notevole per il suo audace soggetto (con un'eroina non convenzionale e dalla forte personalita) essa e rinomata anche per l'impegnativa commistione di comico e tragico, un tratto piuttosto inusuale per l'epoca, che ebbe una chiara influenza sui capolavori verdiani di meta secolo. La presente riduzione per canto e pianoforte e condotta sull'edizione critica della partitura, da poco pubblicata in questo stesso catalogo: si basa sul manoscritto autografo di Donizetti (conservato presso l'Archivio Storico Ricordi di Milano), sul libretto della prima rappresentazione, su alcune riduzioni a stampa per canto e pianoforte e su varie altre fonti dell'epoca. L'edizione presenta per la prima volta tutte le aggiunte che il compositore apporto alla partitura nel corso di dieci anni, costituendo un'affascinante testimonianza dei mutevoli approcci di Donizetti alla materia drammatico musicale durante questa fase della sua carriera. Il volume comprende una sintesi della ricostruzione della genesi storica dell'opera e della descrizione delle fonti e una selezione di Note del Commento Critico fra quelle piu funzionali alle esigenze di cantanti e pianisti accompagnatori.
SKU: HL.14019832
In 1918-19, Gian Francesco Malipiero wrote a collection of seven songs, commonly known as Sette Canzoni. They were initially intended as a stand-alone work, but became incredibly popular when they wereincluded as the second act of the composer's opera L'Orfiede. However, in recent years the collection has come to be recognised in its own right as one of the composer's masterpieces.
Like all of the seven songs,the fifth, Serenata, is designed as an individual mini-opera. Scored for a solo Tenor with Piano accompaniment, it tells the story of a young lover serenading his beloved. At the same time, unknown to him, shesits inside lamenting the death of a relative.
Serenata has been translated from the original Italian into French by Henry Prunieres, and into English by Edwin Evans.
SKU: BT.DHP-1053882-130
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
The French composer Adolphe Charles Adam's (1803- 1856) carol Cantique de No l (better known in France as Minuit, Chrétiens, and also widely known as O Holy Night) was initially criticised by church authorities who observed a lack of musical taste and the absence of religious perception. How wrong they were is now clear as the song is popular worldwide and is often performed in churches as well as carol concerts. Roland Kernen has produced this beautiful version of Cantique de Noël for brass band.Adams kerstlied Cantique de Noël (in Frankrijk bekender als Minuit, Chrétiens en in het Engels populair als O Holy Night) werd in eerste instantie bekritiseerd door de kerkelijke autoriteiten, die een gebrek aanmuzikale smaak en de afwezigheid van religieuze beleving constateerden. Hoezeer zij het bij het verkeerde eind hadden is intussen gebleken: het lied is wereldwijd geliefd en wordt nog altijd veel gezongen - ook in kerken. RolandKernen maakte van Cantique de Noël een sfeervolle bewerking voor blaasorkest.Dem Weihnachtslied Cantique de Noël von Adolphe Charles Adam aus dem 19. Jahrhundert wurde zu seiner Entstehungszeit von Kirchenoberen einen Mangel an gutem Geschmack und das Fehlen von religiösem Empfinden bescheinigt. Doch sie irrten sich: Das Lied ist auf der ganzen Welt beliebt und wird noch immer oft gesungen - auch in Kirchen. Roland Kernen legt hier eine wunderschöne Version für Brass Band vor. Le compositeur français Adolphe Charles Adam (1803-1856) est initié la musique par son père Jean-Louis Adam, professeur de piano au Conservatoire de Paris. En 1821, il entre au Conservatoire de Paris dans la classe d’orgue et d’harmonium de François Benoist et celle de Bo eldieu pour la composition. Vers les années 1823, il connaît ses premiers succès gr ce ses chansons composées pour des vaudevilles parisiens. Il assied sa notoriété avec ses ballets, notamment avec le gracieux Giselle, et quelques opéras-comiques. Vers la fin de sa vie, il est nommé professeur de composition au Conservatoire de Paris. En 1847, Adolphe Adam compose le Cantique de Noël surle poème Minuit, Chrétiens de Placide Cappeau. L’Église émet de vives critiques l’encontre de la musique jugée trop pompeuse et du texte trop pa en. Bien tort, car le noël d’Adam éblouira le monde entier. Il est interprété encore de nos jours, même dans les églises. Roland Kernen en a réalisé ce bel arrangement pour Brass Band.
SKU: BT.DHP-1053882-030
The French composer Adolphe Charles Adam's (1803- 1856) carol Cantique de No l (better known in France as Minuit, Chrétiens, and also widely known as O Holy Night) was initially criticised by church authorities who observed a lack of musical taste and the absence of religious perception. How wrong they were is now clear as the song is popular worldwide and is often performed in churches as well as carol concerts. Roland Kernen has produced this beautiful version of Cantique de Noël for brass band.Adams kerstlied Cantique de Noël (in Frankrijk bekender als Minuit, Chrétiens en in het Engels populair als O Holy Night) werd in eerste instantie bekritiseerd door de kerkelijke autoriteiten, die een gebrek aanmuzikale smaak en de afwezigheid van religieuze beleving constateerden. Hoezeer zij het bij het verkeerde eind hadden is intussen gebleken: het lied is wereldwijd geliefd en wordt nog altijd veel gezongen - ook in kerken. RolandKernen maakte van Cantique de Noël een sfeervolle bewerking voor blaasorkest.Dem Weihnachtslied Cantique de Noël von Adolphe Charles Adam aus dem 19. Jahrhundert wurde zu seiner Entstehungszeit von Kirchenoberen einen Mangel an gutem Geschmack und das Fehlen von religiösem Empfinden bescheinigt. Doch sie irrten sich: Das Lied ist auf der ganzen Welt beliebt und wird noch immer oft gesungen - auch in Kirchen. Roland Kernen legt hier eine wunderschöne Version für Brass Band vor. Le compositeur français Adolphe Charles Adam (1803-1856) est initié la musique par son père Jean-Louis Adam, professeur de piano au Conservatoire de Paris. En 1821, il entre au Conservatoire de Paris dans la classe d??orgue et d??harmonium de François Benoist et celle de Bo eldieu pour la composition. Vers les années 1823, il connaît ses premiers succès gr ce ses chansons composées pour des vaudevilles parisiens. Il assied sa notoriété avec ses ballets, notamment avec le gracieux Giselle, et quelques opéras-comiques. Vers la fin de sa vie, il est nommé professeur de composition au Conservatoire de Paris. En 1847, Adolphe Adam compose le Cantique de Noël surle poème Minuit, Chrétiens de Placide Cappeau. L???glise émet de vives critiques l??encontre de la musique jugée trop pompeuse et du texte trop pa en. Bien tort, car le noël d??Adam éblouira le monde entier. Il est interprété encore de nos jours, même dans les églises. Roland Kernen en a réalisé ce bel arrangement pour Brass Band.
