SKU: HL.48181929
Drame lyrique en 5 Actes (Text from 'Conte de la Motte-Fouque').
SKU: AP.36-A915501
ISBN 9798892703277. UPC: 659359566639. English.
The three-act operetta LA RONDINE (The Swallow) by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was first completed in 1916 and premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on March 27, 1917. It tells the story of Magda, a Parisian courtesan, who is torn between more transactional love she has chosen and the romantic love of a wife with the young man Ruggero, whom she meets at a small house party of her protector Rambaldo, then again at a Paris nightspot. After leaving to live with Ruggero for some time, she flees back to Rambaldo when Ruggero proposes marriage, declaring that she cannot keep her past a secret and she will not allow her previous life to bring grief to both Ruggero and his parents. Never satisfied, Puccini revised the operetta in both 1920 and 1921, altering the ending each time, and he passed before he settled on the definitive version. The beautiful tenor aria PARIGI! È LA CITTÀ DEI DESIDERI (Paris! It is the city of desire) was not included in the original libretto and added by Puccini to give Ruggero, the romantic lead, something to do in the first act. While it does not move the plot forward, the aria does quickly endear listeners to the Ruggero character. The aria was later cut from the opera and is not usually heard in staged versions, although the music was used again with different text in Puccini's 1917 song MORIRE?, S. 89. This edition of the aria by Michael Kaye is from the second version (1920) of the opera.
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SKU: AP.36-A915502
UPC: 659359800351. English.
SKU: HL.50602116
ISBN 9781540064431. UPC: 888680966492. 9.0x12.0x0.865 inches.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Fidelio O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint • VINCENZO BELLINI I Capuleti e i Montecchi Eccomi in lieta vesta...-Oh! quante volte, oh! quante • I puritani O rendetemi la speme - Qui la voce sua soave - Vien, diletto • La sonnambula Care compagne - Come per me sereno - Sovra il sen la man mi posa • La sonnambula Ah! non credea mirarti • GAETANO DONIZETTI Don Pasquale Quel guardo il cavaliere • L'elisir d'amore Prendi, per me sei libero • La fille du régiment Chacun le sait • Lucia di Lammermoor Regnavanel silenzio - Quando rapito in estasi • Lucrezia Borgia Com'è bello! quale incanto • CHARLES GOUNOD Faust Que vois-je là ? - Ah ! Je ris de me voir • Roméo et Juliette Je veux vivre dans le rêve • GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Agrippina Bel piacere • Alcina Tornami a vagheggiar • Alcina Ah, mio cor! • Giulio Cesare Non disperar chi sa? • Giulio Cesare V'adoro, pupille • Giulio Cesare E pur così inun giorno - Piangerò la sorte mia • Giulio Cesare Da tempeste il legno infranto • JULES MASSENET Manon Allons ! Il le faut ! - Adieu, notre petite table • Manon Est-ce vrai ? - Obéissons quand leur voix appelle • WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Così fan tutte In uomini, in soldati • Don Giovanni Batti, batti, o bel Masetto • Le nozze di Figaro Giunse alfin il momento - Deh vieni, non tardar • Die Zauberflöte Ach, ich fühl's • GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI La serva padrona Stizzoso, mio stizzoso • GIACOMO PUCCINI La bohème Quando me'n vo • Gianni Schicchi O mio babbino caro • La rondine Chi il bel sogno di Doretta • GIOACHINO ROSSINI Semiramide Bel raggio lusinghier • Il viaggio a Reims All'ombra amena del Giglio d'Or • GIUSEPPE VERDI Un ballo in maschera Volta la terrea fronte alle stelle • Un ballo in maschera Saper vorreste • Falstaff Sul fil d'un soffio etesio • Rigoletto Gualtier Maldè...-Caro nome • La traviata È strano!... è strano!...-Ah, forse è lui che l'anima - Sempre libera degg'io • ANTONIO VIVALDI Il Tigrane Squarciami pure il seno.
SKU: HL.48024730
UPC: 888680955731.
Rauta vaara reworked his touching song from the opera Aleksis Kivi for cello and piano in 2000, to commemorate his late composer colleague Lepo Sumera. The melody is calm, in the style of chanson sans paroles - fit for many occasions. Song of My heart for celloand piano has been recorded (Ondine, 2018) by Tanja Tetzlaff and Gunilla Sussmann.
SKU: FG.55011-444-9
ISBN 9790550114449.
Eino juhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was one of Finland's internationally most successful composers. He made his major breakthrough with the Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light, in the 1990s, but his output includes numerous classic operas, concertos, chamber music and choral works. Over his extensive career, he progressed from Neo-Classicism to strict dodecaphony to free-tonal Neo-Romanticism, combining modernism with mystical romanticism in his later works. According to the composer, the role of the composer is to be mediator, a midwife, who helps the music become alive on its own terms; Listen to what the music wants to tell you, he told his composition students, sense where it wants to go. Rautavaara rose to great international fame with the success of his Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light (1995) powered by the prize-winning recording (Helsinki Philharmonic, Segerstam, Ondine label) later the same year. Many high-profile international commissions followed, creating yet more prize-winning recordings. To mark the 25th anniversary of the work's premiere - in its original form as the Bloomington Symphony - by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Pickett, Fennica Gehrman is publishing an entirely new edition of the symphony based on all available sources, including the composer's manuscript and his markings in various printed scores. This is a large-sized conductor score with extensive analysis of the work and its genesis.
SKU: HL.50486117
ISBN 9781423406150. UPC: 073999987379.
I libretti di questa collana curata da Eduardo Rescigno, oltre a fornire il testo delledizione originale, offrono nel ricco apparato di annotazioni o in appendice, tutte le varianti entrate in uso rispetto alla prima rappresentazione solo serealizzate da Puccini stesso. Completano ledizione una concisa ma esauriente biografia del compositore e dei librettisti, la cronologia delle opere, i riassunti delle trame; infine una serie di note che spiegano il significato dei termini desueti,chiariscono le situazioni piu complesse e la segnalazione delle fonti letterarie. Include: Le Villi - Edgar - Manon Lescaut - La boheme - Tosca - Madama Butterfly - La Fanciulla del West - La rondine - Trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, GianniSchicchi) - Turandot.