SKU: TM.05469SET
Orch. by Liszt and Doppler.
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SKU: TM.06105SC
SKU: TM.06105SET
Clarinets = 2 in C, 2 in F, 2 basset Horns. Horns = 2 in C, 2 in F (for a total of 4 different parts).
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4 brass chs: I: 0.0+4.4.2; II: 0.4.4.0; III: 0.4.4.0; IV: 0.4.4.4.
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SKU: TM.08872SET
Key of d.
SKU: HL.14019171
SKU: TM.06103SC
Les Egyptiennes, Les Babloniennes, Les Gauloises, Les Pheniciennes, Final.
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SKU: HL.49029783
SKU: BT.EMBZ20017A
English-German-Hungarian.
In 1845 Franz Liszt embarked on a project to compose an Italian opera based on Lord Byron’s tragedy, Sardanapalus (1821). It was central to his ambition to attain status as a major European composer, with premieres variously planned for Milan, Vienna, Paris and London. But he abandoned it half way through, and the music he completed has lain silently for 170 years. Liszt’s difficulty in obtaining a libretto meant that composition only began in April 1850. He completed virtually all the music for Act 1 in an annotated piano-vocal score of 111 pages, contained within his N4 music ‘sketch book’. The unnamed librettist was an Italian poet and political prisoner, seemingly living under house arrest, and a close acquaintance of Cristina Belgiojoso. His libretto survives as underlay in the N4 sketchbook and has been critically reconstructed and translated. Sardanapalo is Liszt’s only mature opera. While he consistently referred to it in French, as Sardanapale, the published title of the Italian opera would almost certainly have used the Italian name, hence this forms the title of the first edition. There are three solo roles and a chorus of concubines. The manuscript was previously thought to be fragmentary and partially illegible, but it was finally deciphered to international acclaim in March 2017. Liszt’s score offers a richly melodic style, with elements from Bellini and Verdi alongside glimmers of Wagner and the symphonic poems ahead: a unique mixture of Italianate pastiche and mid-century harmonic innovation. It remains quintessentially Lisztian. The opera sets Byron’s tragedy about war and peace in ancient Assyria: the last King, effeminate in his tastes, is drawn to wine, concubines and feasts more than politics and war: his subjects find him dishonourable (a ‘man queen’) and military rebels seek to overthrow him, but are pardoned, for the King rejects the ‘deceit of glory’ built on others’ suffering: this leads only to a larger uprising, the Euphrates floods its banks, destroying the castle’s main defensive wall, and defeat is inevitable: the King sends his family away and orders that he be burned alive with his lover, amid scents and spices in a grand inferno. As Byron put it: ‘not a mere pillar formed of cloud and flame, but a light to lessen ages.’ For his part, Liszt told a friend that his finale ‘will even aim to set fire to the entire audience!’ This critical edition includes a detailed study on the genesis of Liszt’s Sardanapalo in English, German, and Hungarian, the libretto in the original Italian as well as in English, German, and Hungarian translation, several facsimile pages of Liszt’s manuscript, and a detailed Critical Report.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14766
The latest volume in the series contains not too lengthy romantic works arranged for four cellos.In addition to two choral works by Liszt and an orchestral funeral march by Tchaikovsky, well-known piano pieces by Schumann, Chopin and Liszt served as the bases for these arrangements.The four parts differ in their degree of difficulty: the upper ones lie higher, while the lower ones are easier, playable at the level of the top classes in music schools. inhoud:1. Liszt: Consolations2. Liszt: LÉternel est son nom3. Liszt: O Roma nobilis4. Tchaikovsky: Marche funebre5. Schumann, Robert: Ein Choral6. Schumann, Robert: Figurierter Choral7. Schumann, Robert: Der Dichter spricht8. Schumann, Robert: Sylvesterlied9. Chopin: PréludeDer neueste Band der Serie beinhaltet für vier Violoncelli bearbeitete, nicht allzu umfangreiche romantische Werke. Als Grundlage der Transkriptionen wurden neben zwei Liszt-Chorwerken und einem orchestralen Trauermarsch Tschaikowskis auch wohlbekannte Klavierwerke von Schumann, Chopin und Liszt herangezogen. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad der vier Stimmen ist unterschiedlich: Die oberen sind höher gelegen, die unteren hingegen sind leichter und können schon in den obersten Klassen der Musikschule gespielt werden.Sommaire:1. Liszt: Consolations2. Liszt: LÉternel est son nom3. Liszt: O Roma nobilis4. Tchaikovsky: Marche funebre5. Schumann, Robert: Ein Choral6. Schumann, Robert: Figurierter Choral7. Schumann, Robert: Der Dichter spricht8. Schumann, Robert: Sylvesterlied9. Chopin: PréludeContents:1. Liszt: Consolations2. Liszt: LÉternel est son nom3. Liszt: O Roma nobilis4. Tchaikovsky: Marche funebre5. Schumann, Robert: Ein Choral6. Schumann, Robert: Figurierter Choral7. Schumann, Robert: Der Dichter spricht8. Schumann, Robert: Sylvesterlied9. Chopin: Prélude
SKU: BR.EB-2066
ISBN 9790004160770. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
Text by the composer Translation: engl. (M. E. Browne) Place: Bagdad Characters: Der Kalif (baritone) - Baba Mustapha, ein Kadi (tenor) - Margiana, seine Tochter (soprano) - Bostana, eine Verwandte (alto) - Nureddin (tenor) - Abul Hassan Ali Ebn Bekar, Barbier (bass) - 1. Muezzin (bass) - 2. Muezzin (tenor) - 3. Muezzin (tenor) - Ein Sklave (tenor) - Vier Bewaffnete (2 Tenore, 2 Basse) Corneliuss opera got off to a bad start, to say the least: the scandal provoked at the first performance in Weimar in 1858 led to protests and ultimately to the resignation of Franz Liszt as court opera director. It was not until 1904 that the opera was played again in that city and proved that the scandal had not been caused by the work but by Liszts aesthetic views. The score was long considered as the ideal example of a musical comedy with a far too complicated plot. Today, however, many prominent commentators beg to differ: This is one of the sunniest scores ever written. Music in the spirit of Mozart and Mendelssohn: a highly delicate mixture of classical formal rigor and romantic irony, heightened with just a touch of exquisite sensuality that has just wafted in from the Orient. It is practically incomprehensible how Cornelius could have been regarded as a composer of the Wagner school for practically a century. With its intricate fusing of comedy, lyricism and sentimentality, it is precisely the opera that Schubert, Schumann, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mendelssohn were unable to write. (Hans Zender).
SKU: CA.8346500
Franz Liszt was one of those composers who permanently altered the musical culture of the 19th century. However, his sacred vocal works are still overshadowed by his piano music. Pioneering elements - which Liszt always knew how to combine with a simple tonal language which was appropriate - are, however, to be found particularly in his smaller sacred works. Hans-Joachim Lustig and the chamber choir I Vocalisti present a selection of this music that is well worth listening to and, in so doing, give us comprehensive view of Liszt's choral oeuvre.
SKU: BT.EMBZ2349
German-Hungarian.
'In publishing this collection of choral works we think with gratitude of our fellow countryman, Ferenc Liszt, one of those who have energized Hungarian musical life. We are conscious of a great debt, which we would like to repay at least in part. We are obliged to do so by Hungarian, European and universal musical culture, but perhaps even more by respect for Hungarian traditions and our duty to preserve them. Hence this publication, the seven works in which are appearing now in print for the first time in Hungary, and for the same reason this collection contains a complete list of Liszt's choral works.' (Miklós Forrai, Budapest, spring 1959).
SKU: HL.50511103
ISBN 9790080023495. UPC: 073999111033. 6.5x9.25x0.231 inches. Hungarian, German. Miklos Forrai.
'In publishing this collection of choral works we think with gratitude of our fellow countryman, Ferenc Liszt, one of those who have energized Hungarian musical life. We are conscious of a great debt, which we would like to repay at least in part. We are obliged to do so by Hungarian, European and universal musical culture, but perhaps even more by respect for Hungarian traditions and our duty to preserve them. Hence this publication, the seven works in which are appearing now in print for the first time in Hungary, and for the same reason this collection contains a complete list of Liszt's choral works.' (Miklos Forrai, Budapest, spring 1959).
SKU: HL.50487450
ISBN 9790080130858. JB/5 (18,2x25,7) inches. Hungarian. Ferenc Liszt; Laszlo Lukin; Miklos Forrai.