TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Prelude

SKU: CY.CC2925

ISBN 9790530057445.

Shep herd's Song is heard in the prelude to the Finale, Act 3 of Wagner's great opera, Tristan & Isolde. It is a bleak and doleful lament played mostly unaccompanied by a shepherd boy keeping watch for Isolde's ship to arrive. The melody is later heard throughout scene 1.
Ralph Sauer, has done a beautiful job in arranging this music (originally played offstage on the English Horn) for Tenor Trombone.
It is about 2 1/2 minutes in length and appropriate for advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2927

ISBN 9790530057469.

Shep herd's Song is heard in the prelude to the Finale, Act 3 of Wagner's great opera, Tristan & Isolde. It is a bleak and doleful lament played mostly unaccompanied by a shepherd boy keeping watch for Isolde's ship to arrive. The melody is later heard throughout scene 1.
Ralph Sauer, has done a beautiful job in arranging this music (originally played offstage on the English Horn) for Tuba or Bass Trombone
It is about 2 1/2 minutes in length and appropriate for advanced performers.

SKU: TM.14217SET

Concert ending arranged by Wagner, which is different from the one in the complete opera (#04597), and Prelude Love Death Concert Version (#04007). See #07000 for original Prelude version extraction. See #04007 for original Love Death with vocals.

SKU: TM.14217SC

Concert ending arranged by Wagner, which is different from the one in the complete opera (#04597), and Prelude Love Death Concert Version (#04007). See #07000 for original Prelude version extraction. See #04007 for original Love Death with vocals.

SKU: TM.07000SET

Prelude portion matches the original from the opera. Transposed: cl 1,2+bass, hn 3+4, tpt 1-3, tbn 1+2 (hn 1+2 orig in F, cl orig in A). See #04007 for original opera version for Love Death (Liebestod) with Soprano solo.

SKU: TM.07000SC

Prelude portion matches the original from the opera. Transposed: cl 1,2+bass, hn 3+4, tpt 1-3, tbn 1+2 (hn 1+2 orig in F, cl orig in A). See #04007 for original opera version for Love Death (Liebestod) with Soprano solo.

SKU: FA.MFCD007PN

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.

The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.

Unfortunat ely, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!

SKU: BT.EMBZ8526

German.

Zoltá n Kocsis (1952-2016) left a lasting mark not only as a phenomenal pianist, but as a musical polymath: his genius combined the composer, conductor, editor, instrumentalist, and orchestrator. With his transcriptions he enriched the symphonic, chamber, song, and piano repertoires with a hundred and fifty works.This publication contains a transcription by Kocsis of the prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. In 1982 the work was recorded played by Kocsis, and today we regularly find it in pianists' programmes. This publication is printed on high quality, durable paper made from renewable raw materials in an environmentally friendly way.

SKU: HL.49016064

UPC: 073999308303. 305 X 229 inches.

Contents: Bourré (Bach) • Grave (Abaco) • Concerto (Vivaldi) • Prelude and Allegro (d'Andrieu) • Sonata in C Minor (Handel) • Sonatina and Minuet (Beethoven) • Elegy and Andante (Bottesini)• Aria from Rigoletto (Verdi) • Adagio (Geissel) • Vocalise (Rachmaninoff) • Romance (Prokofiev) • Introduction and Tarentelle (Franchi) • Serenade (Beveridge) • Chaconne (Russell).

A range of solos specially selected and arranged for double bass with piano accompaniment by Oscar Zimmerman. Includes works by Beethoven, Bottesini, Verdi, Vivaldi and Rachmaninov.

SKU: HL.48187658

French.

From 'Tristan et Isolde'.

SKU: TM.07000TPS

SKU: M7.DOHR-98550

ISBN 9790202005507.

Max Regers Auseinandersetzung mit der Musik Richard Wagners geht bis in seine frühe Jugend zurück. 1888 erlebte er in Bayreuth Aufführungen von Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg unter Hans Richter und Parsifal unter Felix Mottl. Bis an sein Lebensende blieb Wagner für Reger einer der größten Komponisten, häufig dirigierte er dessen Vorspiele in Konzerten. 1909 trat Regers Verleger mit Blick auf das kommende Wagnerjahr 1913 erstmals an den Komponisten heran und bat ihn, Orchesterstücke Wagners für Klavier einzurichten. Wegen verschiedener Verpflichtungen und gesundheitlicher Probleme konnte Reger die Bearbeitungen erst 1913 bzw. 1914 fertigstellen. Die Bearbeitungen wurden, bedingt durch die Besetzung mit zwei Klavieren, eher für den Konzertgebrauch konzipiert.

SKU: CF.PL1072

ISBN 9781491160244. UPC: 680160918836.

An Anthology of Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone marks a rare and significant entry to the piano literature as one of the only collections of the oft-neglected left-hand piano repertoire. Serious literature for the left hand alone has a long and storied past. Contained within this volume, the serious advanced pianist will find a wealth of artistically satisfying repertoire for the left hand that will not only strengthen the technical development of the left hand, but also make for impressive showpieces on the recital stage.This volume includes hitherto unpublished gems like Earl Wild's Etude No. 3 for the Left Hand Alone (Based on Gershwin’s The Man I Love) and Ruth Wylie's Soliloquy for Piano, Left Hand, Op. 23, as well as established classics of the repertoire like Godowky's Chopin arrangements, and even modern and contemporary additions like Bartok’s Etude for the Left Hand and Corigliano's Etude No. 1 for the Left Hand Alone.

SKU: CY.CC3098

ISBN 9790530110751. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

James Haynor's arrangement of Wagner opera highlights for 10-part Brass Choir Timpani and Percussion is a real crackerjack featuring the following selections: 1. Pilgrim's Chorus from Lohengrin 2. Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin 3. Finale from Tristan and Isolde 4. The Flying Dutchman 5. Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from Lohengrin 6. Ride of the Valkyries This work is for advanced performers and is about 8 minutes in length. Instrumentation is: 4 Trumpets in B-flat, 2 Horns, 3 Trombones, 1 Tuba (or 2 Tubas and 2 Trombones), Timpani and Percussion.