SKU: BT.DHP-1185780-400
ISBN 9789043153836. English-German-French-Dutch.
For over three hundred years, great opera singers have held entire audiences under their spell. In so doing, they can call on an etensive repertoire of arias by many important composers. Live at the Opera now makes this precious treasure trove available to instrumentalists, too. Twelve of the most beautiful operatic melodies of all time have been specially arranged for violin and are performed by the renowned violinist Maximilian Lohse. The accompanying audio is performed by an authentic opera orchestra, which also includes a play-along version without soloist. Additionally, this unique collection also includes background info and tips on performance for theindividual arias. Al meer dan driehonderd jaar weten grote operazangers en -zangeressen hun publiek te betoveren. Wanneer ze voor ons op het podium staan, vertolken ze melodieën die behoren tot de allermooiste van de klassieke muziek. Live at the opera maakt deze schat aan melodieën nu ook toegankelijk voor instrumentalisten: twaalf Italiaanse opera-ariaâ??s zijn speciaal gearrangeerd voor viool en opgenomen door de gerenommeerd violist Maximilian Lohse. Een echt operaorkest neemt de begeleiding voor zijn rekening, die op de meespeelversie ook zonder solo-instrumentalist beschikbaar is. Verder zijn in deze unieke collectie muziekhistorische achtergrondinformatie bij iedere aria entips voorde uitvoering opgenomen. Schon seit mehr als dreihundert Jahren ziehen groÃ?e Opernsängerinnen ein ganzes Opernpublikum in seinen Bann. Dabei können sie sich aus einem umfangreichen Arienrepertoire aus der Feder zahlreicher bedeutender Komponisten bedienen. Live at the Opera macht diesen kostbaren Melodienschatz nun auch Instrumentalisten zugänglich: 12 der schönsten Opernmelodien aller Zeiten wurden hier eigens für Violine eingerichtet und werden von dem renommierten Geiger Maximilian Lohse vorgespielt. Ein echtes Opernorchester übernimmt dabei die Begleitung, welche zusätzlich auch in einer Mitspielversion ohne den Solisten zur Verfügung steht. Hintergrundwissen undAusführungstipps zu den einzelnen Arien sind weitere Pluspunkte dieser einzigartigen Sammlung. Les grandes chanteuses lyriques nous captivent depuis plus de trois siècles. Lorsque nous les voyons sur scène, nos oreilles se délectent de mélodies qui comptent parmi les plus belles de tous les temps. Live at the Opera permet aux instrumentistes dâ??accéder également ces trésors : 12 arias dâ??opéras ont été individuellement arrangées pour le violon et enregistrées par le violoniste de renommée internationale Maximilian Lohse. Interprété par un authentique orchestre dâ??opéra, lâ??accompagnement est également fourni sous forme de playback, sans le soliste. Cette collection unique sâ??accompagne dâ??informations sur lâ??histoire des opéras sélectionnés, ainsi que deconseilsdâ??interprétation.
SKU: BT.DHP-1064037-020
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
The musical Phantom of the Opera is full of many songs that are instantly recognised and it has been fundamental in making the genre of Musicals extremely popular with people of all ages. Peter Lavender’s arrangement of this tender and moving ballad will sound fantastic with just about any band. De musical The Phantom of the Opera is gebaseerd op het boek Le fantôme de l’opéra van Gaston Leroux. Het verhaal is opgebouwd rond een mismaakt muzikaal genie dat gemaskerd in de krochten van de Parijse Opéra leeften invloed probeert uit te oefenen op de carrière en het leven van Christine, de jonge zangeres op wie hij verliefd is. Deze dramatische musical leverde een aantal prachtige bekende melodieën op, waarvan Lorenzo Bocci de volgendein zijn eenvoudige arrangement verwerkte: The Phantom of the Opera, All I Ask of You, Masquerade en The Music of the Night.Der englische Komponist Andrew Lloyd Webber erlangte mit der Musik für zahlreiche berühmte Musicals und deren Verfilmungen weltweite Anerkennung, so z.B. Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats und natürlich Das Phantom der Oper. Dessen Handlung rankt sich um ein entstelltes Musikgenie, das maskiert in den Katakomben der Pariser Oper lebt und sich in eine junge Sängerin verliebt hat. Lorenzo Bocci wählte aus dem schönen und dramatischen Musical drei der beliebtesten Melodien für seine einfache, aber wirkungsvolle Bearbeitung für Blasorchester.
SKU: M7.BBA-4024
The Cimarosa Sonatas represent a chest of melodic ideas in which the Neapolitan universe of contrasts takes shape, where freshness sometimes alternates tender melancholy and heartfelt sadness that have always been the counterpart in the culture of that city. Domenico Cimarosa was one of the most prominent opera composers of the late 18th century. He is a transitional figure between the generation of classical operas of the second half of the 18th century (e.g., Gluck and Mozart), and the later generation of early 19th century Italian composers such as Rossini and Donizetti. The work of Jorge MartÃnez Zárate as a composer and transcriber is vast, he has written original works for one and two guitars and has made more than a thousand transcriptions, a large number of them have been published in Argentina and also in the United States, France and Italy.
SKU: HL.48024665
ISBN 9781540058003. UPC: 888680951535.
Jacques Offenbach's more than 100 stage works are an endless treasure trove of vocal highlights with highly different musical moods and lyrical themes. To mark the 200th birthday of the great composer in 2019, which is at the same time the year of the 20th anniversary of the Offenbach Edition Keck OEK, the editor and Offenbach expert Jean-Christophe Keck has assembled a selection of arias. The four-part collection arranged according to voice category shows a rather unknown, romantic side of Offenbach. Apart from rediscovered works and first editions, however, the collection is not complete without some of his unrivalled hits. This volume shows that the composer especially liked to entrust the tenors with tender, sentimental numbers. But the melancholy is not always as genuine as that of the involuntary jester from the opera comique of the same name (here represented by the well-known Ballad to the Moon): Characters like Pluto, Paris or Robinson Crusoe know how to use their melodious voices with quite some ulteriormotive to achieve their goal. The character Frantz, traumatized by war, from the grand opera Les Fees du Rhin, however, is one of Offenbach's few deeply tragic figures. Romantic Offenbach is aimed at fully trained and budding professionals as well as at Offenbach fans of every shade and colour, providing repertoire pieces for recitals, studies or private music-making.
SKU: PR.411411630
ISBN 9781491137635. UPC: 680160691081. English. Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage.
Originally an award-winning play, Lynn Nottage’s INTIMATE APPAREL was inspired by her great-grandmother’s life in New York in the early 20th century. The Pulitzer-laureate also created the libretto for Ricky Ian Gordon’s grand-yet-intimate opera whose complete instrumentation is two pianos. The story follows the life of a young, single seamstress who has recently emigrated from Barbados, the fascinating cast of characters in her life, and her socially-unacceptable feelings of affection for a Jewish fabric salesman. The premiere production of this 2½-hour drama was televised nationally from Lincoln Center on PBS’s “Great Performances.”.Intimate Apparel began with an old photograph that I found haphazardly wedged between the pages of a Family Circle magazine. I was helping my grandmother, who’d developed debilitating senile dementia, move from her longtime home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In the midst of a pile of weathered magazines I discovered a black and white passport photograph of my grandmother Waple and her younger sister Eurita sitting on their mother’s lap. It was the first time I’d ever seen an image of my great-grandmother Ethel, a striking woman with high West African cheekbones and a gentle intensity. She had been a seamstress from Barbados, who at the age of 18 arrived alone in New York City at the dawn of the Twentieth Century. The image invited a thousand questions, none that could be answered by the living, and it led me on a journey to piece together the history of my great-grandmother Ethel, a woman who was basically a stranger to me. The only clue that I had about Ethel, was a story that my grandmother had once told me about her mother corresponding with a man laboring on the Panama Canal, who would eventually become her husband. I was fascinated by this story, which served as the inspiration for INTIMATE APPAREL.As I began my research for INTIMATE APPAREL at the New York Public Library, I discovered that lives of Black working women in the early 1900s were woefully absent from the archive. So, I found myself perusing help wanted listings, boarding house and clothing advertisements, looking for any sign of women like my great-grandmother on the printed page. As I was doing so, I began to find the characters that would populate the world of INTIMATE APPAREL; Esther the lonely seamstress, Mrs. Dickson the proprietress of the boardinghouse for Black women, Mr. Marks the Jewish fabric salesman on the Lower Eastside, Mrs. Van Buren the wealthy white socialite on the Upper Eastside, Mayme the sex worker in the tenderloin, and George the laborer toiling on the Panama Canal. As I was conjuring the characters, I realized that I was interested in the unexpected intersections between class, race, and gender at the turn of the Twentieth Century, and what happens when people across cultural and economic divides are thrust into spaces of intimacy.INTIMATE APPAREL began its life as a popular play, but it was the brilliant composer Ricky Ian Gordon who invited me to consider adapting it into an opera. He saw something epic and expansive in the life of Esther that he felt demanded to be sung, and with his loving guidance I was able to write my first libretto. It took me several tries to figure out how to wrestle my play into a form that was new to me. As a playwright, I kept wanting to maintain absolute control of the narrative. But, it was Ricky’s words that freed me creatively to find my way into the libretto. He said, “You’re not trusting my music as a narrative tool; I can say “I love you” without any words, with just music. So, allow me to be your collaborator on the storytelling.” And once he said that, we found INTIMATE APPAREL the opera together.
