Published within the Signature Series a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars including informative introductions and performance notes
SKU: BR.SON-442
ISBN 9790004803509. 10 x 12.5 inches.
This volume contains three reworkings and orchestrations of religious works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy which were originally set for smaller ensembles (solo voices, four-part chorus and organ). They were composed at different times and for different occasions, two of them as commissions. The anthem ,,Why, o Lord, delay forever MWV A 19 was originally the sacred vocal piece MWV B 33, published in England in 1841 with the additional title ,,[…] The Thirteenth Psalm, and in Germany in the same year as ,,Lass, o Herr, mich Hilfe finden with the title ,,Drei geistliche Lieder which was composed at the suggestion of the English literature and music lover Charles B. Broadley who also provided the paraphrase of the psalm text. After Mendelssohn had refused an initial request by Broadley to furnish the anthem post festum with an organ prelude, the composer did not want to turn down a second request to orchestrate the work and he even expanded the existing material with a lengthy closing fugue involving additional trumpets and timpani. The ,,Ave Maria MWV B 19 was written in connection with Mendelssohn's appointment as municipal music director, a position which at the same time included the responsibility for the musical organization of church services. The instrumentation of the work with an accompaniment of two clarinets and two bassoons as well as low strings was due to the fact that the organ in Dusseldorf's principal church St. Lambertus was out of order for an extended period of time, and Mendelssohn considered this solution explicitly only as a surrogate for the organ should there be none. A further psalm paraphrase in English, this time by William Bartholomew, of the hymn ,,Hear my prayer MWV B 49 was set to music in early 1844; the orchestration of the organ part commissioned by the distinguished Dublin musician Joseph Robinson was not completed until 1847 so that the premiere finally only took place after Mendelssohn's death. In the further course of the century ,,Hear my prayer would, particularly in the version with organ accompaniment, come to enjoy great popularity in Great Britain and Ireland.
SKU: BR.SON-454
ISBN 9790004803646. 9 x 12 inches.
The Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64, and the Sonata in F minor, op. 4, are the only works for solo violin that Mendelssohn had had printed during his lifetime. However, his complete oeuvre includes other completed or fragmentary compositions, including two further concertos and several unfinished sonatas and other individual pieces. He himself had an extraordinary command of the violin and entrusted the instrument in several other works, such as the Octet op. 20 or the concert aria Infelice! - Ah, ritorno, eta dell'oro, with special tasks. Nevertheless, with regard to details of playing technique, he usually sought advice from solo violinist friends, first from Eduard Ritz, then, after Ritz's early death, from Ferdinand David. The present volume contains all of the completed and fragmentary compositions for violin and piano that have survived - from the early Prelude and Fugue in D and G minor from Zelter's practice book (1820), which can be assigned without doubt, through to the Sonata in F major (1838) in their various versions.
SKU: HF.FH-3379
ISBN 9790203433798. 9 x 12 inches.
1. Bedrich Smetana: Die Moldau (aus Mein Vaterland); 2. Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Prelude (aus Te Deum); 3. Anonymus: Spanische Romanze; 4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Freude schoner Gotterfunken (aus: Sinfonie Nr. 9); 5. Isaac Albeniz: Asturias; 6. Antonio Vivaldi: Fruhling (aus: Die vier Jahreszeiten); 7. Antonin Dvorak: Largo (aus Sinfonie Nr. 9); 8. Joseph Haydn: Kaiserhymne; 9. Giuseppe Verdi: Donne e mobile (aus Rigoletto); 10. Ludwig van Beethoven: Fur Elise; 11. Georg Friedrich Handel: Hallelujah (aus Messias); 12. Johann Pachebel: Kanon; 13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Alla turca (aus Klaviersonate KV 588); 14. Modest Mussorgski: Promenade (aus Bilder einer Ausstellung); 15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Menuett (aus Notenbuchlein); 16. Edvard Grieg: Morgenstimmung (aus Peer Gynt Suite); 17. Pjotr I. Tschaikowski: thema (aus Klavierkonzert Nr. 1); 18. Edward Elgar: Land of hope and glory (aus Pomp and circumstances); 19. Edvard Grieg: In der Halle des Bergkonigs (aus Peer Gynt Suite); 20. Luigi Bocchcerini: Minuetto (aus Streichquartett op. 11): 21. Maurice Ravel: Bolero; 22. Pjotr I. Tschaikowski: Thema (aus Schwanensee); 23. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Hochzeitsmarsch (aus Sommernachtstraum); 24. Johann Strauss: An der schonen blauen Donau; 25. Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesus bleibt meine Freude (aus BWV 147); 26. Francisco Tarrega: Gran Vals.
SKU: M7.IFO-72622
Doppel-CD zum 20-jährigen Jubiläum von organ - Journal für die Orgel Bernhard Leonardy an der Hauptorgel der Ludwigskirche in Alt-Saarbrücken (CD 1) und an der Hauptorgel von St. Johann - Päpstliche Basilika, Saarbrücken (CD 2) Inhaltstext: CD 1 Bernhard Leonardy an der Hauptorgel (Rudolf von Beckerath 1982: 47/III/P, mech.) der Ludwigskirche in Alt-Saarbrücken, ehemalige fürstlich-lutherische Hof- und Predigtkirche _Daniel Magnus Gronau: Choralvariationen (Versus I-IV) über 'Ein fäste Burg ist unser Gott' _Michael Praetorius: 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott', Choralbearbeitung aus Musae Sioniae _Heinrich Scheidemann: Choralfantasie 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' _Johann Nicolaus Hanff: 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' _Johann Gottlob Werner: Choralvorspiel und Choral 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' _Johann Sebastian Bach: Choralbearbeitung 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' BWV 720 _Johann Gottfried Walther: 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' _Johann Sebastian Bach: 'Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär'', aus der Kantate 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' BWV 80 _Johann Pachelbel: Choralfantasie 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' _Johann Ludwig Krebs: Choralvorspiel 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' KrebsWV 518 _Johann Sebastian Bach: Choralbearbeitung 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' BWV Anh. 49 _Dietrich Buxtehude: Choralvorspiel 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' BuxWV 184 _Christian Flor: 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' CD 2 Bernhard Leonardy an der Hauptorgel (Johannes Klais, Bonn, 1975 / Hugo Mayer, Heusweiler, 2000: 62/V/P, mech. + el.) von St. Johann - Päpstliche Basilika, Saarbrücken _Max Reger: Fantasie über den Choral 'Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott' op. 27 _Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Choralfinale 'Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott', Finale aus Sinfonie Nr. 5 'Reformationssinfonie' op. 107 _Wilhelm Middelschulte: Toccata in D 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' _Naji Hakim: 'Mit seinem Geist und Gaben', 8 Variationen über 'Ein' feste Burg' _William Faulkes: Festival Prelude on 'Ein' feste Burg' _Bernhard Zorn: Konzert-Fantasie op. 14 ('Ein feste Burg') _Heinrich Wettstein : Fantasie über den Choral 'Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott' op. 9 (mit Motiven aus Händels 'Halleluja').
SKU: HL.50571509
