The 20 year old Berlioz wrote his Messe solennelle in 1824 his first large scale work for chorus and orchestra. His later Memoirs suggest he burnt the manuscript due to his doubts about its quality. However the manuscript had made its way to Antwerp and the Church of St Carolus-Borromeus where it was catalogued by church officials probably in 1956. But it was not until 1991 when Franz Moors a retired teacher organist and choir master discovered it in a wooden chest on the organ platform and gradually began to realise its status as a work of some significance. The work was published by Bärenreiter in the 'New Berlioz Edition' and modern premieres were givenduring 1993 and 1994. Urtext of the New Berlioz Edition Full score (BA5463) vocal score (BA5463-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP333) available for sale Performance material (BA5463-72) available for hire

Le premier cahier des Vexierbilder (1991) (Vexierbild se traduirait par attrape , rébus ) exploitait l'idée d'image trompeuse, de référent décalé, se concentrant autour d'un matériau délibérément appauvri. Dans ces trois nouvelles pièces, la musique cherche à se construire autour d'un geste, d'une figuration systématique, d'une forme coupant court à tout développement.

Dans une veine années de pèlerinage , Rome était la matière des images cryptées des trois premiers Vexierbilder. C'est l'art du poète américain Wallace Stevens qui est au centre de ceux-ci, et plus particulièrement son premier recueil Harmonium (paru en 1923), où il tente de trouver, avec des moyens resserrés, le caractère transcendant inhérent à la musique (Claire Malroux). En somme : remplacer le grand orgue de la poésie, devenu inadapté, par un instrument moins noble en apparence, dont le souffle et la portée naîtraient d'une activité têtue, concentrée mais presque dérisoire.

Pratiquant les rappels sacrés, parfois ironiques, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), par un jeu de degrés étourdissant de raffinement, a porté au plus haut l'art de faire du neuf avec la mémoire.

Speech of clouds
Deux notes - une simple tierce do-la dans le médium - sont sollicitées par une navette de deux mains qui n'en seraient qu'une, sans chant ni harmonie, et sonnent comme un carillon brouillé. Dans la seconde partie de la pièce, après un court récitatif sorti de silence, ces trajectoires virtuoses, ces fusées d'artificier pour solo de concert , régressent, involuent vers une formule égrenée simplement par les cinq doigts, en ombre, ppppp possibile, comme une trame usée, ou un envers montrant la pauvreté de ses noeuds - et de ses ficelles - sur laquelle, au même endroit du clavier, vient se poser un contre-chant, comme si ces deux mains du médium n'appartenaient plus alors au même corps - invention rebrodée ton sur ton où une voix contrepointe l'autre par soustraction.

...An uncertain green,
Piano-polished, held the tranced machine
Of ocean, as a prelude holds of holds.

... Un vert incertain
D'un poli de piano, tenait la machine enchantée
De l'océan comme un prélude tient sans fin.

Negation
Pièce lente qui revient à cet arte povera cherché dans le premier recueil des Vexierbilder. L'objet harmonique est ici donné dans une grande nudité, comme une anti-figure dont le caractère obvi se retournerait en ambiguïté interrogative, et à partir duquel plusieurs ostinati se construisent, s'épuisent sans développement, écho au poème éponyme de Stevens : Hé ! Le Créateur aussi est aveugle / Qui cherche à bâtir son harmonieux ensemble, / Rejetant les parties intermédiaires, / Les horreurs, les faussetés et les maux, / Maître incapable de toute puissance, / Trop vague idéaliste, submergé / Par un souffle qui persiste.

Rondo
Une courte séquence construit la pièce en refrains, comme le titre l'indique, empruntant au contre-chant de la première pièce. Certaines strophes font entendre un précipité des ostinati de la seconde pièce, mais rejetés dans les extrêmes du clavier. Est-ce alors le grave qui vient orner, fouetter l'aigu à contre-emploi? Ces agrégats doivent sonner comme des sacs de grains lâchés par terre. C'est comme un tribut déposé au pied de la rhétorique, un geste d'embrassement qui voudrait naïvement fermer le ban du pianisme. D'autres strophes, plus fugitives, font entendre des sortes de chants d'oiseaux dont la mécanique se serait bloquée. Après un dernier retour du refrain, ourlé de résonances, la pièce se termine par une clausule dansante, livide, itérative, pendant aux Jeux d'os squelettiques qui achevaient les premiers Vexierbilder :

Mow the grass in tue cemetery, darkies,
Study the symbols and the requiescats,
But leave a bed beneath the myrtles.
The skeleton had a daughter and that, a son.

And that one was never a man of heart.
The making of his son was one more duty.
When the music of the boy fell like a foutain,
He praised Johann Sebastian, as he should.

Tondez l'herbe du cimetière, négros,
Examinez les symboles et les requiescats,
Mais laissez un lit sous les myrthes,
Ce squelette avait une fille, et cet autre, un fils.

Celui-là ne fut jamais un homme de coeur
Engendrer son fils ne fut qu'un devoir de plus.
Quand la musique de ce garçon retomba comme un jet d'eau,
Il loua Jean-Sébastien, comme il se devait. / Partition /

The Mass K.262 (246a) is known as Missa longa. Leopold Mozart designated it so next to the incipit on the cover of the autograph collection of five masses in C major by his son. Mozart literature gives the year of origin as 1776 without mentioning the speculative nature of this claim.The monumentality of the Missa longa suggests that the work was written for a particularly solemn occasion. When scanning for outstanding ecclesiastical events in the 1770?s one cannot ignore the consecration of Ignaz Josef Count Spaur coadjutor and administrator of the diocese of Brixen as titular bishop of Chrysopel on 17 November 1776 in the Salzburg cathedral. Erich Schenk claimsthat Leopold Mozart?s mention of Wolfgang?s ?Spaur Mass? in a letter of 28 May 1778 was in reference to the consecration of Ignaz Josef Spaur an old friend of the Mozart family. Mozart?s work would then have to be seen as an homage of a truly personal nature. The Missa longa is the only setting of the Ordinary from this period which is appropriate to such a highly solemn event.Urtext of the ?New Mozart Edition? Ideal for church services and concert performances Full score & performance material (BA4853) and vocal score (BA4853-90) for sale

The Mass K.262 (246a) is known as Missa longa. Leopold Mozart designated it so next to the incipit on the cover of the autograph collection of five masses in C major by his son. Mozart literature gives the year of origin as 1776 without mentioning the speculative nature of this claim.The monumentality of the Missa longa suggests that the work was written for a particularly solemn occasion. When scanning for outstanding ecclesiastical events in the 1770?s one cannot ignore the consecration of Ignaz Josef Count Spaur coadjutor and administrator of the diocese of Brixen as titular bishop of Chrysopel on 17 November 1776 in the Salzburg cathedral. Erich Schenk claimsthat Leopold Mozart?s mention of Wolfgang?s ?Spaur Mass? in a letter of 28 May 1778 was in reference to the consecration of Ignaz Josef Spaur an old friend of the Mozart family. Mozart?s work would then have to be seen as an homage of a truly personal nature. The Missa longa is the only setting of the Ordinary from this period which is appropriate to such a highly solemn event.Urtext of the ?New Mozart Edition? Ideal for church services and concert performances Full score & performance material (BA4853) and vocal score (BA4853-90) for sale

The Mass K.262 (246a) is known as Missa longa. Leopold Mozart designated it so next to the incipit on the cover of the autograph collection of five masses in C major by his son. Mozart literature gives the year of origin as 1776 without mentioning the speculative nature of this claim.The monumentality of the Missa longa suggests that the work was written for a particularly solemn occasion. When scanning for outstanding ecclesiastical events in the 1770?s one cannot ignore the consecration of Ignaz Josef Count Spaur coadjutor and administrator of the diocese of Brixen as titular bishop of Chrysopel on 17 November 1776 in the Salzburg cathedral. Erich Schenk claimsthat Leopold Mozart?s mention of Wolfgang?s ?Spaur Mass? in a letter of 28 May 1778 was in reference to the consecration of Ignaz Josef Spaur an old friend of the Mozart family. Mozart?s work would then have to be seen as an homage of a truly personal nature. The Missa longa is the only setting of the Ordinary from this period which is appropriate to such a highly solemn event.Urtext of the ?New Mozart Edition? Ideal for church services and concert performances Full score & performance material (BA4853) and vocal score (BA4853-90) for sale

Bach composed his oratorio for the Feast of the Ascension in Leipzig in 1735. Though this work has the duration of a cantata, the choice of text places it among the oratorios. It combines the biblical account of the Ascension with chorales and free madrigal poems.As in other works which were composed during this same year (e.g. the 'Christmas Oratorio?), Bach reveals a special fondness for colourful orchestration, with two flutes, two oboes, three trumpets, timpani and strings, creating a splendid Baroque sound with a strikingly festive character.This edition is based on the thoroughly researched musical text from the 'New Bach Edition?.- Lavishly scored oratorio of a festive nature- Based on the 'New Bach Edition?- Bilingual foreword by Andreas Glöckner (Ger/Eng) / Orchestre

A wonderful well-researched musical about saving the planet as seen through the eyes of animals on land sea and air. Written by the successful partnership of Michael and Jill Gallina this is a superb one-act play to inspuire all! Through rhyming dialogue and creative characterisations the animals teach young people on a picnic the three R’s of ecology - recycle Replenish and Respect. The seven songs in unison and two-part demonstrate a variety of blues rap calypso ballad and funky rock styles. Students will enjoy dramatising the 12 animals (which are easily costumed) the eight young picnickers the conga-line of fish and the chorus which can be any size.This is the Performer's Part with all lyrics and the libretto. The Director’s Score (SP19649)includes staging costuming props and scenery suggestions.

lyric. The OperAria repertoire collection for all voice genres that was successfully launched last year has produced lyrical soprano progeny: From Adele to Zerbinetta, from Pamina to Mimi and Ellen Orford - the first two (of altogether four) soprano volumes contain a representative sampling of important arias from the multifaceted lyrical repertoire. Classical audition arias can be found there, just as vocal gems from opera rarities and arias of classical modernity, each one obviously reliably and carefully edited. Accessorizing one's own lyrical voice, the singer will find a wealth of material such as: information on the composer, the librettist, the work, the vocal range, on questions concerning versions and scoring as well as on the storyline, along with instructive tips from a singer's viewpoint provided by experienced voice teachers and a Phonetics Text Assistant on CD-ROM with diverse possibilities of use. OperAria is the ideal vocal coach for all voice types. Edited by Peter Anton Ling, the books address all singers and are conceived above all for training and auditions. In addition, through their careful selection, they offer valuable inspiration for opera recitals. / Date parution : 2019-09-06/ Recueil / Soprano Lyrique

Cobwebs is a delightful little piece taken from Fancy-Fair a collection of eight songs for young children by Peter Jenkyns. It is scored for unison Voices with Piano accompaniment but is also suitable for solo performance. English singer composer conductor and musical director Peter Jenkyns (1921-1996) wrote many of his well-known songs with children in mind for the choirs of the schools he was headmaster of to perform at the annual St. Albans Schools' Music Festival. The excellent pieces by this writer of little art songs for the under 12s are well received and much anticipated by audiences and performers alike.

Après les succès extraordinaires de Belle Hélène (1864) et Vie parisienne (1866), le triumvirat Offenbach / Meilhac / Halévy a atteint le zénith de sa gloire en 1867 avec son Grand-Duché de Gérolstein - mais seulement après des suppressions drastiques et des révisions. Aucune autre Offenbachiade tant souffert de coupures faites dans le but d'accueillir le goût populaire de l'époque. En conséquence, la grande romantique opéra-bouffe plein de gouffres et doubles sens mutées dans la parodie militaire dont il était connu jusqu'à ce que la redécouverte en 2004 de la version originale à la parisienne du Théâtre du Châlet avec les Musiciens du Louvre sous la direction de Marc Minkowski, et Felicity Lott dans le rôle titre. Le 'original' Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein, comme initialement conçu par Offenbach et ses librettistes, a été publié dans son intégralité pour la première fois dans le cadre de l'OEK critique pratique Offenbach Edition, et est également désormais disponible, après avoir résisté à l'épreuve dans de nombreuses productions scéniques, dans une partition de piano imprimé. Il documente non seulement la version de la partition autographe, mais en outre également des versions faites par Offenbach pour les premières suivantes à Vienne et à Berlin, avec toutes les modifications en termes de forme et de la musique. Tous les quatre versions livret pertinentes sont documentés dans l'annexe. / Soliste, Choeur Et Orchestre