Partiture per studio per orchestra

2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten in B, 2 Fagotte, 2 Ventil-Hörner in C, 2 Waldhörner in C, 2 Ventil-Trompeten in C, 3 Posaunen, Pauken, Streicher, Chor

Whoever attempted to compose a Latin mass in the middle of the 19th century had to compete with great models and traditional composition techniques. Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Missa solemn...

'This has to be written all by oneself' is what Schumann is supposed to have said to his first biographer after the completion of the Requiem. Thus began a reception history of the work created in 185...

The German Mass is one of Schubert's most popular pieces and surely his most famous sacred work. It lies within the tradition of the Deutsche Singmesse, which developed in the late eighteenth century.

Even if Schumann falls back on the hymnbook when choosing the text of his 'Adventlied' (Advent Song), the composition probably was politically motivated and, still under the impressions of the revolut...

Schumann was right in the middle of the preparations for the performance of his oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri when he wrote the sketches of Neujahrslied. How much vocal music meant to him is show...

The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and...

This new publication presents Wagner's much-loved opera in its entirety with a detailed preface by Egon Voss. The new Urtext Edition replaces the familiar edition by the conductor Felix Weingartner, p...

Slightly kinked

Parsifal, the last musico-dramatic work of Wagner, was premiered in Bayreuth on 26 July 1882 and, at first, were reserved for this performance venue according to the composer's will. Apart from only a...

Lohengrin is regarded as Wagner's most fairy-story-like opera, its plot interweaving motives from the world of legends and medieval history. The opera was premiered at the Weimar Court Theatre on 28 A...

Tippett's decision to extract the four Ritual Dances from his opera 'The Midsummer Marriage' as a self-contained concert suite reflects the fact that the medium of dance was always present in his conc...

Like few other theatre works—The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream—Tippett's first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is ind...

Broschur - Soli, Chor und Orchester

Broschur - Soli, Chor und Orchester