SKU: HL.14019171
SKU: BT.EMBZ14204
Hungarian.
It is a new, two-volume selection from Liszt's (Vol. I. for high voice Z. 14203) most popular songs sung most frequently in concerts and classrooms. In this collection several pieces missing from the earlier, six-volume selection of Editio Musica are available.
SKU: HL.50487186
ISBN 9790080124680. B/5 (17x24) inches. Hungarian. Zoltan Kodaly; Mihaly Vorosmarty.
(Hungaroton HCD 12352).
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: 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: 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.50511054
ISBN 9790080132739. UPC: 073999110548. 7.5x10.5 inches. German, Latin. Ferenc Liszt; Janos Matyas.
Ger. Lat.
SKU: HL.50562958
SKU: HL.50605353
ISBN 9781705180310. UPC: 196288106210.
Dániel Dobos (* 1994) studied with Gyula Fekete and Máté Bella at the Department of Composition of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. In his violin concerto Sylvanus, he uses the technical repertoire of Transylvanian folk violinists. His piano piece, Drumul dracului, which won the first prize in 2018 at the Béla Bartók World Competition, also focuses on a new interpretation of Transylvanian folk music roots. In Callis stellarum, Dobos set one of the apocalyptic visions by the prophet Isaiah: “For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.†At the end of the composition, the Hungarian folk song “Csillagok, csillagok†(Stars and Stars) is heard as a kind of hopeful association. Commissioned by the municipality of Debrecen, this piece won the first prize in the youth mixed choir category of the HangKELTO Youth Composition Competition held in 2021.
SKU: HL.50571642
SKU: HL.50571643
SKU: HL.50578703
SKU: LM.C06038
ISBN 9790230360388.
CERTON P. : Je n'ose le dire - HAENDEL G.F. : Ch'io mai vi possa - BACH J.S. : Recitatif (extrait de La passion selon St Jean) - BACH J.S. : Choral (extrait de La passion selon St Jean) - GLUCK C.W. : Air (extrait de Orfeo et Euridice) - MOZART W. A. : Duo (extrait de La Flute enchantee) - BERLIOZ H. : Air de Marguerite (extrait de La Damnation de Faust) - SCHUMANN R. : Du Ring an meinem Finger - SCHUMANN R. : Ich grolle nicht - LISZT F. : O lieb' so lang du lieben kannst - OFFENBACH J. : Ah que les hommes sont betes (extrait de La Perichole) - BIZET G. : La chanson boheme (extrait de Carmen) - RIMSKI-KORSAKOV N. : Scheherazade (extrait) - MASSENET J. : Meditation (extrait de Thais) - DEBUSSY C. : En sourdine (extrait des Fetes galantes) - KOECHLIN C. : N'est-ce pas ? - POULENC F. : Une ruine coquille vide - WEILL K. : Salomonsong (extrait de l'Opera de quatre sous) - Depp river (negro spiritual).
SKU: HL.50605354
ISBN 9781705180327. UPC: 196288106227.
Bence Kutrik (*1976) studied composition between 2003 and 2010 in San Francisco and at the University of Toronto, and then graduatedfrom the Department of Composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music as a student of János Vajda. His ensemble piece Ritual was chosen a Recommended Work at the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers. With his solo piano composition Introverted Confessions, he won first place at the Anton Matasowsky composer competition in 2018. He has won several concert and film music awards abroad andin Hungary, and is a founding member of the STUDIO5 contemporary music group in Hungary. This work for mixed choir sets excerpts of a medieval Christmas hymn, putting great emphasis on the apparent contrast between the infant in the manger and the victorious Savior. The work was commissioned by the municipality of Debrecen.
SKU: HL.50571641
SKU: LM.C06240
ISBN 9790230362405.
BACH J.S. : Air (extrait de la Messe en Fa) - BACH J.S. : Recitatif (extrait de La Passion selon St Mathieu) - MOZART W.A. : Le calme joyeux - SCHUMANN R. : Heiss' mich nicht reden, heiss' mich schweigen - LISZT F. : Mignon's Lied - WAGNER R. : Der Engel - MOUSSORGSKY M. : Erscheinung - TCHAIKOVSKY P.I. : Lied der Mignon - DEBUSSY C. : Les Angelus - STRAUSS R. : Du meines Herzens Kronelein - RAVEL M. : Le cygne (extrait de Histoires naturelles) - BERG A. : Schilflied - HINDEMITH P. : Fragment - POULENC F. : La grenouillere - LA HALLE A. (de) : Or es Baiars - SERMISY C. (de) : Tant que vivrai en age florissant - Tebe Poem (Liturgie orthodoxe) - ROSSINI G. : La charite - BRAHMS J. : Wenn so lind dein Auge - KODALY Z. : Stabat mater.
SKU: HL.50563553
9x12.25 inches.
SKU: HL.50489516
ISBN 9790080085592. B/5 (17x24) inches. Hungarian. Erno Rossa; Lajos Bardos.
