Facsimile of Mozarts autograph score-The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos Ca in association with the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg present a facsimilie edition of the autograph scores of the seven great Mozart operas.Mozart's seven great operas his brilliant contribution to music theatre and world culture are unequalled in their depth of human characterisation and musical expression.Now Mozart scholars libraries and lover's of Mozart's stage works have the oppertunity to acquire these priceless manuscripts in flawless reproductions.All volumes include essays on the history of the work and introduction by leading Mozart scholars in English andGermanConsolidation of Mozart manuscripts held in different placesHighest level of precision in reproduction and authenticity of colour through use of the latest technology 'I regard it as a true privilege to be able to read and study Mozart's scores in his manuscript hand... The commanding clarity and the characteristic appearance of Mozart's handwriting are unique'     - Kent Nagano (Conductor)

Facsimile of Mozarts autograph score-The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos Ca in association with the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg present a facsimilie edition of the autograph scores of the seven great Mozart operas. Mozart's seven great operas his brilliant contribution to music theatre and world culture are unequalled in their depth of human characterisation and musical expression. Now Mozart scholars libraries and lover's of Mozart's stage works have the oppertunity to acquire these priceless manuscripts in flawless reproductions. All volumes include essays on the history of the work and introduction by leading Mozartscholars in English and German Consolidation of Mozart manuscripts held in different places Highest level of precision in reproduction and authenticity of colour through use of the latest technology 'I regard it as a true privilege to be able to read and study Mozart's scores in his manuscript hand... The commanding clarity and the characteristic appearance of Mozart's handwriting are unique'     - Kent Nagano (Conductor)

Facsimile of Mozarts autograph score-The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos Ca in association with the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg present a facsimilie edition of the autograph scores of the seven great Mozart operas. Mozart's seven great operas his brilliant contribution to music theatre and world culture are unequalled in their depth of human characterisation and musical expression. Now Mozart scholars libraries and lover's of Mozart's stage works have the oppertunity to acquire these priceless manuscripts in flawless reproductions. All volumes include essays on the history of the work and introduction by leading Mozartscholars in English and German Consolidation of Mozart manuscripts held in different places Highest level of precision in reproduction and authenticity of colour through use of the latest technology 'I regard it as a true privilege to be able to read and study Mozart's scores in his manuscript hand... The commanding clarity and the characteristic appearance of Mozart's handwriting are unique'     - Kent Nagano (Conductor)

Facsimile of Mozarts autograph score-The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos Ca in association with the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg present a facsimilie edition of the autograph scores of the seven great Mozart operas. Mozart's seven great operas his brilliant contribution to music theatre and world culture are unequalled in their depth of human characterisation and musical expression. Now Mozart scholars libraries and lover's of Mozart's stage works have the oppertunity to acquire these priceless manuscripts in flawless reproductions. All volumes include essays on the history of the work and introduction by leading Mozartscholars in English and German Consolidation of Mozart manuscripts held in different places Highest level of precision in reproduction and authenticity of colour through use of the latest technology 'I regard it as a true privilege to be able to read and study Mozart's scores in his manuscript hand... The commanding clarity and the characteristic appearance of Mozart's handwriting are unique'     - Kent Nagano (Conductor)

Facsimile of Mozarts autograph score-The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos Ca in association with the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg present a facsimilie edition of the autograph scores of the seven great Mozart operas. Mozart's seven great operas his brilliant contribution to music theatre and world culture are unequalled in their depth of human characterisation and musical expression. Now Mozart scholars libraries and lover's of Mozart's stage works have the oppertunity to acquire these priceless manuscripts in flawless reproductions. All volumes include essays on the history of the work and introduction by leading Mozartscholars in English and German Consolidation of Mozart manuscripts held in different places Highest level of precision in reproduction and authenticity of colour through use of the latest technology 'I regard it as a true privilege to be able to read and study Mozart's scores in his manuscript hand... The commanding clarity and the characteristic appearance of Mozart's handwriting are unique'     - Kent Nagano (Conductor)

Half human half machine - the cyborgs are about to invade planet Earth! Robert uses his background in composing sci-fi scores for television to create this epic cinematic composition that pits humanity against the sinister cyborg army. Skillfullyscored for 2nd year players Attack of the Cyborgs sounds more impressive and advanced than its grade level would suggest. Dur: 2:30

Facsimile of Mozarts autograph score-The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos Ca in association with the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg present a facsimilie edition of the autograph scores of the seven great Mozart operas. Mozart's seven great operas his brilliant contribution to music theatre and world culture are unequalled in their depth of human characterisation and musical expression. Now Mozart scholars libraries and lover's of Mozart's stage works have the oppertunity to acquire these priceless manuscripts in flawless reproductions. All volumes include essays on the history of the work and introduction by leading Mozartscholars in English and German Consolidation of Mozart manuscripts held in different places Highest level of precision in reproduction and authenticity of colour through use of the latest technology 'I regard it as a true privilege to be able to read and study Mozart's scores in his manuscript hand... The commanding clarity and the characteristic appearance of Mozart's handwriting are unique'     - Kent Nagano (Conductor)

Includes full-length audio CD-Over the course of some three dozen volumes Amadeus Press highly acclaimed Unlocking the Masters series has drawn readers into the worlds of the greatest composers and their music. Curated pairings of critically minded introductory texts andcompanion CDs loaded with tracks selected from the worlds foremost libraries of recorded classics the series truly brings the sounds and stories of its legendary subjects to life. Its latest entry Victor Lederers Schumann: A Listeners Guide isan essential portal to the musical works of and tempestuous life of this little-understood genius. Many if not most major composers improve over the course of their careers. For Schumann however the opposite was true: plagued throughout his lifeby physical and mental illnesses he helplessly ? and consciously ? endured the gradual diminution of his prodigious talent until his premature death at age 46. Throughout Schumann: A Listeners Guide Lederer provides unflinching critiques of theweaknesses that plagued Schumanns style contrasting them with the brilliance of his earliest triumphs. This eminently accessible account explores the full spectrum of the master composers oeuvre from his popular early music and lieder to hisworks for chamber ensembles composed in 1842 to his four beloved if flawed symphonies. It also accounts for Schumanns dramatic works particularly Genoveva his only opera and Incidental Music to Byrons ?Manfred ? a bewilderingly unappreciatedmusical score. As with all volumes in the UTM series Schumann: A Listeners Guide is accompanied by a CD containing two of the masters most daring imaginative flights both explored in detail in the text: the Davidsbündlertänze for piano andDichterliebe (A Poets Love) one of the all-time greatest song cycles and works for voice. Geared toward fledglings but written with an eye turned to aficionados the book is a must-have for Schumann buffs and classical music fans young and old.

In 'Tosca' Puccini explored the dark side of human emotion a marked change from the late-Romantic sentimentality of 'La Boheme'. Also in contrast to 'La Bohème' where the villain was fate and so the stage action was minimal both heros and villains are humans who struggle on stage and the clashes are always between single individuals. It is a story of cheating and doubt - nothing seems honest and direct even love is troubled by jealousy.Thisis the Schirmer Ediiton of the Libretto in the original Italian with an English translation by John Gutman.

In 'Tosca' Puccini explored the dark side of human emotion a marked change from the late-Romantic sentimentality of 'La Boheme'. Also in contrast to 'La Bohème' where the villain was fate and so the stage action was minimal both heros and villains are humans who struggle on stage and the clashes are always between single individuals. It is a story of cheating and doubt - nothing seems honest and direct even love is troubled by jealousy. Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based the libretto on Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca (1887). This is the Schirmer edition of the Vocal Score and contains an English version by John Gutman.

Per Nørgård NUIT DES HOMMES'The night of mankind - the night of men' is a kind of opera in so far as it is about a stagework with sung accompanied by both acoustic and electronic instruments - a stagework in two acts and approx. 20 pictures. However if you by opera think of its 'dramatic type' with people in one or more conflicts mutual and with themselves - well then 'Night of mankind' probably has to reckon among another not yet categories genre.It may well be two named person that perform (Alice and Vilhelm) but 'the opera' does not deal with their possible mutual tensions but instead of their common limitless intensity which first make them in harmony walk the dangerouspaths on which the enthusiasm lead them and afterwards divides them as now radically changed figures: from the individual woman to the war correspondent in demagogic - ecstatic outburst of feelings - from the mans human to the soldiers unhuman everyday. A crash into the underground - without a return ticket.'Per Nørgård

At First Light was commissioned by Eric Bruskin a resident of Philadelphia USA in memory of his mother. Eric had a longstanding enthusiasm for my work and I was touched to be the person he approached for a task which is both a privilege and a daunting responsibility. In a sense no music can ever measure up to the weight of love or the hope of consolation vested in it under such circumstances – but in memory I carry the deaths of both my own parents and I was able to draw upon that. Eric’s fondness for my Cello Sonata (itself written in memoriam) led him to ask that I include a solo ‘cello part in the new work – but his attachment also to my polyphonic sacred choral writing meant that he wanted a centrepiece which would be both a showcase of that approach and the celebration of a life well lived. Therefore the seven movements of At First Light arrange themselves as a series of slow meditations surrounding an exuberant 9-minute motet in which the lamenting cello falls temporarily silent. Eric’s Jewish faith meant that approaching an agnostic humanist brought up within the Anglican tradition was hardly free of problems! Gradually though I was able to win his approval for a collated mosaic of texts. This embraces some liturgical Latin (necessary for the motet) as the shared preserve of broad western culture in general but balances it with a secular approach to loss celebration remembrance and the many shades of our mourning those whom we see no longer. Eric was adamant that he did not want the title Requiem; but what has emerged is still a form of semi-secular Requiem in all but name taking its title instead from a phrase in the poem by Thomas Blackburn set as the third movement. This seemed to suggest succinctly how the loss of one very close to us is an awakening into an unfamiliar world where everything is changed. Following the exuberant central movement the texts by the Lebanese-born Kahlil Gibran and the US Kentuckian poet Wendell Berry first address the departed loved one directly then place us within an imaginary funeral cortège where the perennial and universal in human experience become personal without subscribing explicitly to any particular faith (or lack of it). The final text of all is a translation of a Hebraic prayer requested and provided by Eric Bruskin which serves to mirror its Latin counterpart heard at the outset. Throughout the lamenting cello represents a commentary on the experience articulated in the text. It evokes and in a sense tries to embrace and sanctify the individual existential journeys of the bereft as they in turn seek to make their own sense of what the short-lived Second World War poet Alun Lewis called ‘the unbearable beauty of the dead’ (movement 5). In a modern world hostage to ever greater menace displacement bloodshed and anguish I hope fervently that this music not only brings a measure of solace to the person who commissioned it but also makes its own small contribu

Schumann begann erst recht spat, sich mit Kammermusik zu beschaftigen. 1842 entstanden dann gleich sechs gewichtige Werke, darunter auch sein erstes Klaviertrio, das er aber erst 1850 unter dem Titel Vier Phantasiestuecke als op. 88 herausgab. In der Zwischenzeit hatte er bereits die Trios d-moll op. 63 (1847) und F-dur op. 80 (1847/49) komponiert. In seiner Duesseldorfer Zeit, 1851, kam dann noch das g-moll-Trio op. 110 hinzu. Zusammen mit den Trios von Mendelssohn und Brahms zahlen die vier Kompositionen Schumanns zu den wichtigsten Werken der Gattung im 19. Jahrhundert. Trio d-moll op. 63 Trio F-dur op. 80 Trio g-moll op. 110 Phantasiestuecke a-moll op. 88 Anhang: Finale, Fruehfassung op. 88 Finale, Alternative Takte 105-128 der Fruehfassung op. 88

Par SCHUMANN CLARA. Clara Schumanns Briefe An Hermann Härtel Und Richard Und Helene Schöne / Date parution : 1997-02-20/ Répertoire / Divers