Turandot

SKU: HL.49041676

ISBN 9783254080158. 4.75x7.5x0.592 inches. Italian - German - English.

Glucklich, endlich den langgesuchten grossen Opernstoff gefunden zu haben, begann Puccini seine Turandot. Es ist sein letztes Werk: Krankheit und Tod hinderten den Komponisten an der Vollendung, die aber einem jungeren Kollegen, Franco Alfano, meisterhaft gelang - unter Verwendung vieler hinterlassenen Aufzeichnungen und Skizzen Puccinis.Dieses Buch enthalt neben dem Textbuch einfuhrende Kommentare von Kurt Pahlen. Er begleitet das musikalische und das aussere wie innere dramatische Geschehen der Oper mit Hinweisen zu kompositorischer Struktur und Sinnzusammenhang. Eine Inhaltsangabe und ein Abriss der Entstehungsgeschichte stellen das Werk in einen Zusammenhang mit dem Gesamtschaffen des Komponisten und seiner Biographie und bieten eine umfassende, reich illustrierte Einfuhrung.

SKU: BR.EB-9429

ISBN 9790004189061. 0 x 0 inches. German / Italian.

Text by the composer based on a drama by Carlo GozziTranslation: engl. (L. Salter), ital. (O. Previtali)Place: Im aussersten Orient. Vor dem Stadttor Pekings, Thronsaal im Kaiserpalast, das Frauengemach TurandotsCharacters: Altoum, Kaiser (bass) - Turandot, seine Tochter (soprano) - Adelma, ihre Vertraute (mezzo-soprano) - Kalaf, Sohn des Timur, ein Prinz (tenor) - Barak, sein Getreuer (baritone) - Die Koniginmutter von Samarkand, eine Mohrin (soprano) - Truffaldino, Haupt der Eunuchen (tenor) - Pantalone, Minister (bass) - Tartaglia, Minister (bass) - Acht Doktoren (4 tenors, 4 basses) - Eine Vorsangerin (mezzo-soprano) - Der Scharfrichter (stumme Rolle)Busoni's work, which antedates Puccini's famous setting by a few years, seems rather cool in com-parison to the later piece. Busoni tones down the colors of his orientalisms and totally eschews sentimental lyricism. His strengths lie especially in the scintillating, unfathomable characters and in a music that hovers in an ambivalent manner between brightness and darkness, sadness and humor, danger and harmlessness. This work of art makes its references clear: Gozzi's play about the murderous princess is peopled with familiar commedia dell'arte figures, and one is not quite sure whether this mixture of fun and danger gives a more relaxed feeling to the activity on the stage or whether it does not do precisely the opposite, adding the irreconcilable perspective of a gondola trip on the edge of a bottomless gulf. Busoni is more faithful to Gozzi than Puccini and thus to the gracious levity that hovers over the excesses of the action. His mild chinoiseries repeatedly lead to a Neo-Classicism inspired by Venetian folklore. (Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, 1985) Turandot was premiered with Arlecchino in Zurich on 11 May 1917.

SKU: TM.14770SC

Act II No. 14 Gloria, Gloria o vincintore. No. 15 Figlio del cielo (STT Trio with chorus- Turandot, Emperor, Calaf). No non dire tua figlia e sacre (S Aria- Turandot). Sc pg 291-304.

SKU: TM.14769SC

Act II No. 13 Recitative. Turandot, Calaf. Sc pf 283-290.

SKU: TM.14769SET

Act II No. 13 Recitative. Turandot, Calaf. Sc pf 283-290.

SKU: TM.14767SC

Act II No. 11. Recitative. Sung by Turandot, Calaf. Sc pg 265-271.

SKU: TM.14781SC

Act III No. 10 Duet. Turandot, Calaf. Sc pg 421-429.

SKU: TM.14775SC

Act III No. 5 Recitative. Liu, Calaf, Turandot. Sc pg 375-378.

SKU: TM.14775SET

Act III No. 5 Recitative. Liu, Calaf, Turandot. Sc pg 375-378.

SKU: TM.14766SC

Act II No. 10 (Scene 2). Aria with chorus. Sung by Turandot. Sc pg 250-265.

SKU: TM.14774SC

Act III No. 4 Recitative. Sung by Ping, Turandot, Liu. Sc pg 366-375.