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Performed by Kevin Class piano. Accompaniment: Stuttgart S ... Read more

Performed by Kevin Class piano. Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Emil KahnLong popular with audiences and performers alike the Schumann concerto is felt by many to be one of the greatest concerted piano works. In the words of noted authority Maurice Hinson Schumann 'succeeded in a magnificent manner by composing what is probably the most beautiful of Romantic concertos....This flawless masterpiece is one of the most outstanding and romantically inspired concertos in the repertoire.' Integrating the piano and orchestra in an unprecedented manner it embodies the melodic grace and fine tonal texture so characteristic of one of the great composers of all time.This pack includes a 96-page printed music book newly engraved and printed on beautiful acid-free ivory paper; and a compact disc containing a complete version with soloist followed by a second version in full stereo of the orchestral accompaniment minus the soloist; plus a second compact disc containing Minimize

This four-CD set presents a definitive mid-century showcase ... Read more

This four-CD set presents a definitive mid-century showcase for Amsterdam's renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra, featuring beloved conductor Eduard van Beinum and a glittering array of legendary soloists. Principal conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1945 to 1959, Van Beinum was acclaimed as a musician's musician, an artist of unassuming integrity who advanced the composer's vision above all. Recorded by Dutch Radio, the repertoire shows off the full range of the Concertgebouw's fabled warmth and richness, from Debussy's "La Mer" and Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé" to Schubert, Schoenberg and great pieces by Dutch moderns Hendrik Andriessen and Rudolf Escher. The set's world-class soloists include Yehudi Menuhin in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4, Zino Francescatti in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Solomon in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Dinu Lipatti in Bach's D Minor Keyboard Concerto. The 136-page, three-language booklet features rarely seen photos of Van Beinum and the soloists and composers, as well as an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Page, a detailed producer's note and work-by-work annotation. Also included are detailed artist biographies from "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians." Minimize

A twofer of sorts: a celebration of the beautiful symphonie ... Read more

A twofer of sorts: a celebration of the beautiful symphonies of Tchaikovsky and a tribute to the recently departed Mstislav Rostropovich, who's heard here with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He was able to tap deep into the reservoir of emotions that Tchaikovsky poured into his six numbered symphonies, which here join his Manfred Symphony and two of the composer's most admired tone poems: Romeo and Juliet and Francesca da Rimini . Minimize

The Piano Bench of Easy Classical Music is a tremendous pia ... Read more

The Piano Bench of Easy Classical Music is a tremendous piano collection containing 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the developing pianist who loves classical music. Here you will find the world's favorite preludes, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, gavottes, mazurkas, romantic short pieces, impressionistic works, and light classics as well as themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas, and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. Minimize

Performed by Ivanka Ninova mezzo-sopranoAccompaniment: Orc ... Read more

Performed by Ivanka Ninova mezzo-sopranoAccompaniment: Orchestra of the Sofia National OperaConductor: Nayden TodorovHere's a collection of eternal classics from the great Gioachino Rossini's pen-including arias from such great operas as Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Italiana in Algeri. Mezzo great Ivanka Ninova performs these complete editions for your reference then she steps aside and you take your place alongside maestro Todorov and the orchestra of the world-famous Sofia National Opera. Brava!Includes an expansive newly engraved vocal score printed on high-quality ivory paper; and a CD+G graphics-enabled compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) in digital stereo followed by digital stereo orchestral accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist. Minimize

Release Date: 2011-02-22, Audio CD, Newton Classics

Previous editions are cited in Books for College Libraries ... Read more

Previous editions are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. . The third edition of Adler's essential text on orchestration and instrumentation contains expanded treatment on the trombone, the harp, the orchestral percussion section, and string techniques. A chapter is included for transcribing orchestral works to the various combinations of instruments used in public school music groups. Adler, who is emeritus from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, teaches composition at the Julliard School of Music. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Minimize

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detail ... Read more

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths of current music history and music theory to outline a new, up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos. In so doing, it also lays out the indispensable groundwork for anyone wishing to confront the later adaptations and deformations of these basic structures in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. Combining insightful music analysis, contemporary genre theory, and provocative hermeneutic turns, the book brims over with original ideas, bold and fresh ways of awakening the potential meanings within a familiar musical repertory. Sonata Theory grasps individual compositions-and each of the individual moments within them-as creative dialogues with an implicit conceptual background of flexible, ever-changing historical norms and patterns. These norms may be recreated as constellations "compositional defaults," any of which, however, may be stretched, strained, or overridden altogether for individualized structural or expressive purposes. This book maps out the terrain of that conceptual background, against which what actually happens-or does not happen-in any given piece may be assessed and measured. The Elements guides the reader through the standard (and less-than-standard) formatting possibilities within each compositional space in sonata form, while also emphasizing the fundamental role played by processes of large-scale circularity, or "rotation," in the crucially important ordering of musical modules over an entire movement. The book also illuminates new ways of understanding codas and introductions, of confronting the generating processes of minor-mode sonatas, and of grasping the arcs of multimovement cycles as wholes. Its final chapters provide individual studies of alternative sonata types, including "binary" sonata structures, sonata-rondos, and the "first-movement form" of Mozart's concertos. Minimize

The simplicity and beauty of Pachelbel's haunting theme has ... Read more

The simplicity and beauty of Pachelbel's haunting theme has made it one of the most famous classical compositions ever written, as evidenced by recording sales. Calvin Custer's adaptation keeps the integrity of the original Canadian Brass arrangement. Minimize

Performed by Peter Piacquadio trumpetAccompaniment: Stuttg ... Read more

Performed by Peter Piacquadio trumpetAccompaniment: Stuttgart Festival OrchestraConductor: Emil KahnHere is a collection of trumpet solos drawn from every corner of the symphonic repertoire from baroque to Late Romantic (Wagner Bruckner). Every aspect of the orchestral trumpeter's world is explored. Master trumpeter Peter Piacquadio is your guide as you listen to his interpretations of these classic works; then he steps aside and gives you the opportunity to practice and perform these with full orchestra in the comfort of your own home!Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete performance in split-channel stereo with the soloist on the right channel; and a second performance in full stereo minus the soloist. Minimize

Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one ... Read more

Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev’s work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer’s nine piano sonatas. These cherished works, composed between 1910 and 1951, are today considered an indispensable part of the repertoire of every serious concert pianist. The book, written with a deep appreciation of Prokofiev’s style and creativity, looks at the sonatas within the context of Prokofiev’s complete oeuvre.  For each sonata, Berman provides general information about the work and a discussion of the composition’s details and features, and in a section entitled “Master Class” he offers suggestions for interpretation and specific advice for performing. Berman also corrects for the first time various misprints in published scores and includes a helpful glossary of musical terms. Minimize

Release Date: 2008-10-07, Audio CD, Brambus Eur/Zoom

The piano-vocal scores in "The Works of Giuseppe Verdi" are ... Read more

The piano-vocal scores in "The Works of Giuseppe Verdi" are prepared by the same editors responsible for the full scores. The vocal parts appear exactly as in the full scores, while the piano reductions have been revised to reflect the orchestral accompaniments. This volume contains new English singing translations as well as appendix items from the full scores, such as Verdi's alternate of substitute versions of pieces, that follow the main score. The volume opens with an introduction and critical notes from the full score, in both English and Italian, abridged to highlight historical issues and questions related to the vocal parts. Minimize

Performed by Anton Hollich clarinetAccompaniment: Harriet ... Read more

Performed by Anton Hollich clarinetAccompaniment: Harriet Wingreen pianoHere is a spectacular collection of classic pieces arranged for clarinet with piano accompaniment penned by the greatest composers of all time. Symphonic excerpts concert-pieces and themes from famous concerti combine to create an album filled with material for the advancing clarinetist. Drawn almost entirely from the golden age of classical and romantic German repertoire you will find thrilling music by Carl Maria von Weber Mozart Mendelssohn Beethoven Schumann and many more. These classic pieces have been assembled for early-intermediate and higher-level players to help develop a wide range of interpretational and technical skills. Listen to virtuoso clarinetist Anton Hollich perform these masterpieces then you step front-and-center with the illustrious Harriet Wingreen as your accompanist. Bravo!Includes a newly engraved authoritative printed solo part and two compact discs containing a complete ve Minimize

Conductor: Boris Khaikin. Performers:. Valentina Petrova - ... Read more

Conductor: Boris Khaikin. Performers:. Valentina Petrova - Larina . Galina Vishnevskaja - Tatjana . Larisa Avdeeva - Olga . Evgenija Verbitskaja - Filipevna, the nurse . Evgenij Belov - Eugene O Minimize

An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four sco ... Read more

An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment.Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's libretto for the Preparatory Act.Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siècle culture. Minimize

Release Date: 2012-03-06, Audio CD, PID

Includes CD Track List: 1. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, First Mo ... Read more

Includes CD Track List: 1. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, First Movement 2. Koanga: La Calinda 3. Nocturne in E Flat Major 4. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture 5. Prince Igor: Polovstian Dances, Maidens' Dance 6. Porgy and Bess: Summertime 7. The Four Seasons: Summer 8. The Girl With The Flaxen Hair 9. Madame Butterfly: Humming Chorus 10. Memories Of The Alhambra 11. Songs Of The Auvergne: Ba·l·ro 12. Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral", Fifth Movement Minimize

Favorite orchestral works by Butterworth, Delius, Grainger, ... Read more

Favorite orchestral works by Butterworth, Delius, Grainger, Vaughan Williams,Elgar, Ireland, Bax, and BridgeThis four-CD set is a collection of English classics, previously released on theHallé label as single discs. On disc one, the orchestra plays some of the bestBritish music, such as Brigg Fair and English Rhapsody. Disc two bringstogether a stunning collection of works inspired by the English landscape,including the ever-popular Tintagel. Disc three is a collection of lesser-knownEnglish works, such as Delius Idylle de Printemps, and disc four containsa collection of great English music featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams TheWasps, supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Estate and produced inassociation with BBC Radio 3. Minimize

Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical ... Read more

Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music—Bach, Beethoven, Brahms—are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire? Over the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music.This book explores the questions of how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated as "the most German art." Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars in German history, musicology, and German literature, the essays assembled here examine philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents, as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, and pop to explore the ways in which music has Minimize

In this volume, Russell’s classic adaptations of Richard Wa ... Read more

In this volume, Russell’s classic adaptations of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal from the legend of the Holy Grail, Ariane & Bluebeard by Maeterlinck and Dukas, “The Clowns” taken from I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, as well as two songs by Mahler: “The Drinking Song of Earth’s Sorrow" and “Unto This World.” Minimize

Performed by Milena Mollova pianoAccompaniment: Plovdiv Sy ... Read more

Performed by Milena Mollova pianoAccompaniment: Plovdiv Symphony OrchestraConductor: Nayden TodorovOne of the most enchanting and popular piano concerti ever written this is for many the epitome of nineteenth-century Romanticism showing the great influence of both Schumann and Liszt as well as Grieg's own fascination with Norwegian folk melodies. This concerto is less demanding than many of the big Romantic concerti and more accessible to the serious student. This brand new recording features renowned European powerhouse Milena Mollova in a complete reference version then you take center stage with the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Nayden Todorov for your own brilliant performance!Includes a beautiful newly engraved printed music score edited with new fingering suggestions from Ms. Mollova and with informative liner notes; a digital stereo compact disc voluminously indexed for your convenience containing a complete version with soloist then a second performance o Minimize

The song cycle was one of the most important musical genres ... Read more

The song cycle was one of the most important musical genres of the nineteenth century. Famous examples by Schubert, Schumann and Mahler have received a great deal of attention. Yet many other cycles - by equally famous composers, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - have not. The Song Cycle introduces key concepts and a broad repertoire by tracing a history of the genre from Beethoven through to the present day. It explores how song cycles reflect the world around them and how national traditions and social relationships are represented in composers' choice of texts and musical styles. Tunbridge investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song. A lively and engaging guide to this important topic, the book outlines how performance practices, from concert customs to new recording technologies, have changed the way we listen. Minimize

Release Date: 2010-11-09, Audio CD, Brilliant Classics