SKU: BR.CHB-5323-00
Choral music for all occasions in the original notational image, sorted by genres and themes
ISBN 9790004412534. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
The Choir Library for Women's and Children's Choir invites browsing and discovering: Apart from Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert, also lesser known composers like Arnold Mendelssohn, Hanns Eisler and Siegfried Strohbach are represented. The division into sacred and secular compositions as well as the sorting by genres and themes enable a fast locating and retrieving of the pieces. This also makes the usage of the volume by the whole choir a viable option in order to have a basic repertoire at hand. Last but not least, the small oeuvre for women's and children's choir can be purposefully complemented.We wish you lots of joy at discovering and singing!Sacred MusicI. Christmas Carols and MotetsII. Songs of PraiseIII. Psalm SettingsIV. Sacred Choral WorksV. Masses, Mass Sections and HymnsSecular MusicI. Love Songs and BalladsII. Nature and Evening SongsIII. Children's SongsIV. Parting Songs and Solemn PiecesV. Dance and Folk SongsChoral music for all occasions in the original notational image, sorted by genres and themes. Let yourself be inspired by more of our Choir Libraries as well.
SKU: BR.EB-9433
ISBN 9790004189108. 9 x 12 inches. German.
Text by the composerTranslation: engl. (E. J. Dent), ital. (V. Levi), port. (G. de Medeiros)Place and time: Bergamo, around the 18th century.Characters: Ser Matteo del Sarto, master tailor (baritone) - Abbate Cospicuo (baritone) - Dottore Bombasto (bass) - Leandro, Cavaliere (tenor) - Arlecchino (speaking part) - Colombina, Arlecchino's wife (mezzo-soprano) - Annunziata, Matteo's wife - Zwei Sbirren - Ein Karrner - a Donkey - People at the windows (silent parts)The idea behind this work was to combine a major speaking role with a part for a female singer and orchestra in the spirit of the opera buffa. The overall tone is pacifistic and anti-bourgeois. Busoni's inspiration was that of an opera-play in the style of Italian improvised comedy; he wanted types and characters on stage whose varying typology would provide the source of conflict ... The title hero absconds with the young wife of the Dante-reading tailor Matteo. He returns as a false barbarian commander, as a husband who engages in a duel with the suitor Count Leandro, and as a conqueror who announces the moral of the story in the epilogue: how to be able to bow in rags and still retain one's dignity and rights. The piece takes a turn for the absurd when the Abbate, at the sight of Leandro, who is presumed dead, begins to sing a chorale-like song of praise to the donkey of Providence who comes trotting in at that moment. This introduces the most musically refined number in the piece, the quartet, in which Leandro's love aria and his duet with Columbina satirize the attitudes prevalent in Italian opera from Scarlatti to Verdi. Musically, Busoni uses throughout the entire work an idiom of dance-like, blissfully transparent comedy and hides harmonic audacities behind touches of lightness. The orchestral sound radiates an incomparable brightness and buoyant elegance. (Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 1967)In the appendix, EB 9433 contains the later composed aria Wer siegt? Wer fallt?..
SKU: BR.DV-7677-02
The World sings the Praise of the Lord - the title is derived from the choral piece by Johann Wolfgang Franck which is found in the book in Arnold Mendelssohn's musical setting.
ISBN 9790200470567. 9 x 12 inches. German.
Now available again, this extensive (116 pages) collection of choral pieces contains works by C. Ph. E. Bach, Gottfried August Homilius, Joseph Haydn, Moritz Hauptmann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger and many others. It can be seen as a sequel to the volume Geistliche Chorlieder und Motetten von Mendelssohn bis Reger (DV 7672).The World sings the Praise of the Lord - the title is derived from the choral piece by Johann Wolfgang Franck which is found in the book in Arnold Mendelssohn's musical setting.
