Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Bayard, Leclerc, s.d. (=1744)Pièces à deux instruments égaux, particulièrement deux flûtes seules, de différents auteurs, dont Blavet. Certaines pièces suivies de variations.Présentation par Jean SaintArroman : Utilisation pédagogique des pièces.Ces trois recueils de pièces à deux flûtes seules, offrent un panorama de la musique du milieu du XVIIIe siècle en France, avec l'ajout de quelques airs étrangers. Les pièces sont de difficultés variées. Les phrasés sont très bien indiqués, et l'agrémentation, détaillée dans l'introduction, est très représentative du classicisme français. / Musique De Chambre / 96 pages / niveau : 1 / Fac-Similés - Format: 23.5 X 31.5

Par HOLST GUSTAV. L'errance érudit, dernier opéra de Holst, a été écrit en 1929-30 : son titre original était 'Le conte de l'érudit Wandering'. Il fut créé dans The David Lewis Theatre, Liverpool, en 1934, menée par le Dr J. E. Wallace et produit par Frederick Wilkinson. C'était quelques mois avant la mort de Holst, et il était trop malade pour aller à la performance. Il n'avait aucune chance de réviser le score, qui est resté inédit jusqu'à maintenant. Il a laissé plusieurs crayon interroge dans les marges, tels que ' Tempo? ', ' Plus? ', ' Harmonie plus? ', etc.. Et dans l'un de ses livres-note qu'il quitte les requêtes sur plusieurs mots dans le livret qu'il avait des doutes sur. Les éditeurs ont répondu à ces requêtes en faisant quelques altérations en vitesse et dynamique et en suggérant des marques de métronome tout au long de l'ouvrage. Ils ont également fait plusieurs altérations dans le livret qui ils se sentent que Holst aurait pu lui-même s'il avait eu l'occasion de réviser le travail avec son ami Clifford Bax. Lorsque la perfor English Opera Group.../ Répertoire / Chorale

Symphonies. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This edition unites all the purely instrumental and dance numbers from one of Rameau?s most popular operas, along with those from his last one-act opéra-ballet ?Io?, which was left unfinished at the time of his death. ?Platée? is the setting of a libretto by Jacques Autreau that Rameau arranged to be adapted for his own purposes, especially with regard to comic effects. In grotesque form, it shows Jupiter curing his wife Juno of her jealousy by feigning a marriage of love with the ugly swamp nymph Platée. Faced with such a ludicrous rival, Juno is forced to admit that her suspicions were unfounded. The opera was premièred in Versailles in 1745 for the wedding of the Dauphin Louis and Maria Theresia of Spain. The performance was a fiasco, however, for the coarse comedy and bizarre characters were deemed inappropriate by the wedding audience. It was not until 1749 in Paris that ?Platée? achieved its breakthrough, becoming Rameau?s greatest triumph to date. Another version with an altered text was performed from 1754 on. The plot of the fragmentary ?Io? deals with the amorous relations between the nymph Io and Jupiter in the guise of the shepherd Hylas, who becomes a rival of Apollo, disguised as Philemon. Now the inventive and richly varied orchestral numbers from this cruelly comical bonfire of the vanities can be presented in concert with greater flexibility. / Date parution : 2022-04-05/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par KRAUS JOSEPH MARTIN. The first volume of the new scholarly edition contains the complete chamber music without a keyboard instrument. The most important group of works comprises the string quartets, 10 of which have survived. They were composed during the 1770s, whenHaydn was developing this class of music. The differing balance between such contrasting musical elements as entries in imitation, courtly melody, swift changes of tempo and unexpected modulations gives each of the quartets its special charm. Thefact that six of them were published in 1784 as Krauss 'Opus 1' by the publisher J. J. Hummel shows that the composer himself was convinced by his quartets. With the Flute quintet this volume alsocontains another key work in Kraus’s chamber music. Composed in Vienna about 1783 and also issued in manuscript copies, this work was printed by Ignaz Pleyel in Paris in 1799./ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Anne Boyd's The Quiet Place for Oboe (doubling antique cymbals) Clarinet (doubling rin) Viola and Harp.The Quiet Place was commissioned by the Warwick andLeamington Festival for performance by Okeanos on their New Music Day on 14th July 2002.'The Quiet Place' is a meditation site in the University of York dedicated by Dame Janet Baker 'In honour of thespirituality which is in all people'. It was a place I visited frequently in the months I spent as visiting Professor at the University in late 2001. So soon after the attack on the New York Trade Centre the worldfelt a very unstable place especially to be so far from my Australian home. It was difficult to make much sense of existence in a world of fanatical fundamentalism - both Islamic and Christian. Perhaps for comfort I foundmyself thinking back a thousand years to the vital earth based spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and uncovered an Antiphon she had composed 'Nunc Aperuit'. This chant became the basis of the work I have written forOkeanos in response to an invitation from Jinny Shaw whom I met in York last year. In English translation the words of the chant translate as 'Now the closed door has opened for us / What the serpent hassuffocated in woman./ Therefore shines forth in thedawn/ the flower from the Virgin Mary. ' The music of 'The Quiet Place' is a simple meditation which explores the moods of this text often retreating into a silencewhich is both breath and transcendence. - Anne Boyd