Concerto for Viola d'Amore

SKU: HL.50039820

8.0x10.75x0.151 inches.

SKU: HL.50603847

ISBN 9781705149980. UPC: 196288016700. 9.0x12.0x0.144 inches.

Henri Casadesus was passionate about early instruments, as we know from a number of photographs showing him with viola d'amore, the subject of a manual he wrote entitled Tecnique de la viole d'amour. The Concerto en Ut mineur was first published in 1947 by Mica Salabert. The first edition gives the so-called “original” part for solo violocello together with the score which, according to the preface, has been adapted for viola or cello or violin by Casadesus. However, stylistic analysis of the piece, together with some musicological research carried out after the appearance of the first edition reveals that the “original” version for violoncello, onwhich the adaptation was supposed to be based, cannot be attributed to Johann Christian Bach, but is rather a work imitating his style written two centuries later. In spite of this, Concerto en Ut mineur encountered considerable success and continues to be studied and performed by both violinists and violoncellists today.

SKU: HL.50023700

UPC: 073999802412. 9.0x12.0x0.104 inches.

SKU: KU.OCT-10208_VA

ISBN 9790206202759. Key: D major.

SKU: HH.HH522-IPT

ISBN 9790708185390.

The so-called 'Anna Maria Partbook' consists of an elegantly bound volume in red leather containing the violin part of 31 highly virtuoso violin concertos, 26 of which are by Vivaldi. The collection represents the personal repertoire of the Venetian composer's most gifted pupil, the famous 'Anna Maria della Pieta', who also played the viola d'amore, mandolin, theorbo and harpsichord. Twenty of the Vivaldi concertos are known from other manuscript sources and are therefore familiar to us in their complete versions. The remaining six -- three for violin and three for violin and organ -- are unique to the Anna-Maria Partbook, and, because they are incomplete, have not hitherto been part of the Vivaldi performing canon. Now, as a result of Federico Maria Sardelli's rigorous musicological research and painstaking work of reconstruction based on many concordant sources, we are at last able to enjoy these six concertos in startlingly persuasive realizations.

SKU: HH.HH522-FSC

ISBN 9790708185338.

The so-called 'Anna Maria Partbook' consists of an elegantly bound volume in red leather containing the violin part of 31 highly virtuoso violin concertos, 26 of which are by Vivaldi. The collection represents the personal repertoire of the Venetian composer's most gifted pupil, the famous 'Anna Maria della Pieta', who also played the viola d'amore, mandolin, theorbo and harpsichord. Twenty of the Vivaldi concertos are known from other manuscript sources and are therefore familiar to us in their complete versions. The remaining six -- three for violin and three for violin and organ -- are unique to the Anna-Maria Partbook, and, because they are incomplete, have not hitherto been part of the Vivaldi performing canon. Now, as a result of Federico Maria Sardelli's rigorous musicological research and painstaking work of reconstruction based on many concordant sources, we are at last able to enjoy these six concertos in startlingly persuasive realizations.

SKU: HL.49001901

ISBN 9790001117562. UPC: 073999540345. 9.0x12.0x0.05 inches.

Vivaldi's concerto in D minor was originally scored for: Viola d'amore, lute, strings, harpsi-chord (continuo). In this edition, the viola d'amore was replaced with the viola and the -lute with the modern guitar.

SKU: HH.HH580-FSP

ISBN 9790708185949.

Antonio Lotti’s surviving instrumental compositions are very few. Best known is an oboe d’amore concerto in A major, until now his sole identified work in the concerto genre. Now another concerto by him, this time for ordinary oboe, has turned up in Lund, Sweden. The manuscript parts are anonymous, but Lotti’s authorship is proved, first, by the fact that all three movements are arrangements of arias for soprano appearing in two of his operas written for Dresden and, second, by the fact that the use of da capo aria form for all three movements links the new concerto directly to Lotti’s oboe d’amore concerto, which may well be a similar pasticcio. The new G minor concerto, more lyrical than virtuosic in character, is every bit as attractive as its A-major counterpart and deserves to become an essential part of the baroque repertoire for the oboe.

SKU: HL.50039570

UPC: 073999251890. 8.0x10.75x0.15 inches.

SKU: HL.50032110

8.0x10.75x0.162 inches.