Puccini G. - Madama Butterfly - Full Score

SKU: PR.114417610

ISBN 9781491107904. UPC: 680160636051. 9x12 inches.

SONATA CHO-CHO-SAN(Based on themes from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly)In the spirit of the great 19th-century opera fantasies for woodwinds, Michael Webster has created a concert trio on the many great arias from Puccini's Madama Butterfly. However, as its name implies, Sonata Cho-Cho-San is not the typical virtuosic operatic potpourri. Rather, it follows the plot, resembling a sonata mirroring Puccini's use of recurring and developing themes. Webster makes the most of the winds as versatile performers - equally suited to deliver Puccini's beautiful vocal writing, and to ornament and embroider the poignant themes in symphonic style. For advanced performers._______________________________________Text from the scanned back cover:Born in 1944, Michael Webster made his New York recital debutat Town Hall in 1968 with his eminent father, Beveridge Webster, as pianist. In the same year, he won the Young Concert Artists International Competition and succeeded his teacher, Stanley Hasty, as Principal Clarinet in the Rochester Philharmonic, a position he held for twenty years. Webster has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, with the Tokyo, Cleveland, Muir, Ying, Enso, and Dover String Quartets, and with the festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Norfolk, Chamber Music Northwest, Angel Fire, Steamboat Springs, Park City, Sitka, Kapalua, Bowdoin, Orcas Island, Skaneateles, La Musica di Asolo, Stratford, Victoria, and Domaine Forget.As soloist he has appeared with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra under Aaron Copland and the Boston Pops under John Williams. His travels have taken him as performer and teacher to most of the 50 states, as well as Canada, Mexico,Puerto Rico, Central and South America, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand. Webster was Acting Principal Clarinet of the San Francisco Symphony, and has served on the clarinet and/or conducting faculties of New England Conservatory, Boston University, University of Michigan, and the Eastman School, from which he earned his three degrees. Currently he is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of the Houston Youth Symphony, which has won multiple first prizes in national performance competitions.With his wife, flutist Leone Buyse, and pianist Robert Moeling, he plays in the Webster Trio, which has recorded his arrangements on Tour de France and World Wide Webster for Crystal Records. Otherarrangements were recorded for Nami and Camerata Tokyo in Japan with pianist Chizuko Sawa. Webster has also recorded for Albany, Arabesque, Beaumont, Bridge, Centaur, CRI, and New World. He has played at many ClarinetFests for the International Clarinet Association and written a column entitled “TeachingClarinet” in The Clarinet Magazine since 1998. Michael Webster is a Buffet artist-clinician, performing on Buffet clarinets exclusively.

SKU: HL.50602117

ISBN 9781540064448. UPC: 888680966508. 9.0x12.0x0.76 inches.

GEORGES BIZET Carmen C'est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire - Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante • Les pêcheurs de perles Me voilà seule - Comme autrefois • ALFREDO CATALANI La Wally Ebben?... Ne andrò lontana • GUSTAVE CHARPENTIER Louise Depuis le jour • FRANCESCO CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur Ecco: respiro appena... Io son l'umile ancella • Poveri fiori GAETANO DONIZETTI Maria Stuarda Sì, vuol di Francia il rege - Ah quando all'ara scorgemi - Ah! dal Ciel discenda un raggio • ANTONÍN DVORÁK Rusalka Mesícku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the Moon) • JULES MASSENET Hérodiade Celui dont la parole efface toutes peines - Il est doux, il est bon • Thaïs Ah ! je suis seule, seule, enfin ! - Dis-moi que je suis belle • GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Amelia al ballo Vola intanto l'ora insonne • WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Così fan tutte Temerari, sortite - Come scoglio • Don Giovanni Ah, fuggi il traditor! • Alfine il duol - Or sai chi l'onore • In quali eccessi, o Numi - Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata • Crudele? Ah no, Dio! mio bene! - Non mi dir, bell'idol mio • Le nozze di Figaro Porgi, amor • E Susanna non vien! - Dove sono i bei momenti • GIACOMO PUCCINI La bohème Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì • Donde lieta uscì • Madama Butterfly Un bel dì, vedremo • Suor Angelica Senza mamma • Tosca Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore • Turandot Signore, ascolta! • Tanto amore, segreto • Tu che di gel sei cinta • Le Villi Se come voi piccina • GIOACHINO ROSSINI Guillaume Tell Sombre forêt (Selva opaca) • GIUSEPPE VERDI Un ballo in maschera Morrò, ma prima in grazia • Don Carlo Tu che le vanità conoscesti del mondo • Ernani Sorta è la notte - Ernani!... Ernani, involami - Tutto sprezzo, che d'Ernani • La forza del destino Pace, pace, mio Dio! • Il trovatore Tacea la notte placida - Di tale amor, che dirsi • Timor di me?...- D'amor sull'ali rosee • RICHARD WAGNER Lohengrin Einsamin trüben Tagen • Tannhäuser Dich, teure Halle.