The Folk Choirbook

SKU: CA.250199

Score available separately - see item CA.250100.

SKU: CA.220305

ISBN 9790007186753.

For mixed choirs with just one male voice part, the long-awaited new volume in the Loreley choral collection series is now published. 70 German folk songs have been arranged by 30 composers for choirs with just one male voice part for the new Loreley. Loreley once again is devoted to German folk songs in new, up-to-date arrangements: as well as unaccompanied settings, there are arrangements with ingenious piano accompaniments. There is also another group of pieces with melodious four-part settings for three upper voices plus one male voice. Over 70 settings reflect different styles and levels of difficulty. editionchor (without CD). Score available separately - see item CA.220300.

SKU: CA.220220

ISBN 9790007181215.

Collection available separately - see item CA.220200.

SKU: CA.221401

Score available separately - see item CA.221400.

SKU: HL.49041045

ISBN 9783795794453. 10.25x13.25x1.07 inches.

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Probably the most versatile of Russian composers, he made great and lasting contributions to all genres - operas, ballets, incidental music, symphonies and other orchestral works, chamber music, piano music, sacred and secural choral music, romances, Lieder and folk-song arrangements - establishing a special place for Russion music within the European tradition. Publications of the first complete edition of Tschaikowsky's works was started in the centenary year of his birth, 1940. Publication of a second edition will begin in 1993, the centenary of his death. There are important reason, both editorial and in terms of content, for a second edition to follow so soon. In the old edition, ideological considerations meant that some of the texts which Tschaikowsky set to music were arbitrarily altered. Similarly, quotations of the old Russian national anthem were replaced by other music. A number of works, or independent versions, werde completely overlooked. For example, the full score of the opera 'Vakula the Smith' (the first version of Cerevicki) and the unfinished Symphony in E flat major werde not standardized; in some cases no textual analysis was offered, and critical apparatures were simply dispensed with.The new complete edition will remedy these shortcomings. In addition to the composer's final versions, it will include alternative and earlier versions of works, as well as fragments and incomplete works, all reproduced faithfully from the sources. Documentation and discussion will be provided in Critical Commentaries. Piano reductions exist of the stage works, concertos and concertante pieces as well as of some of the cantatas and orchestral works, either written by Tschaikowsky himself, or revised or authorized by him. These are all to be included in the edition which, with its historico-critical approach, will address the need both of scholars and of practical musicians.The edition of musical works (Serie I-IX) is supplemented by a facsimile edition of all of Tschaikowsky's surviving sketches (Serie X), the texts of his diaries, writings and letters, including the three-volume Tschaikowsky-Mekk correspondence (Serie XI), a two-volume catalogue of works and a single-volume Tschaikowsky Encyclopaedia (Series XII).