Spartiti musica barocca: La grande tradizione dei maestri

The main body of the new edition of Les Indes galantes, published in Opera Omnia Rameau (OOR IV.2, 7), restores the version authorised by Rameau in 1736. This basic editorial decision has made it poss...

Originariamente concepito come prologo per il balletto "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", l'atto unico "La Naissance d'Osiris" fu rappresentato solo due volte, insieme alle riprese di "Pigmalion" e "Les In...

Originariamente concepito come prologo per il balletto "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", l'atto unico "La Naissance d'Osiris" fu rappresentato solo due volte, insieme alle riprese di "Pigmalion" e "Les In...

'Dardanus' is Rameau's third 'Tragédie lyrique' composed for Paris after 'Hippolyte et Aricie' and 'Castor et Pollux'. With its multi-facetted music it represents quite a high point of this genre. Its...

Dopo "Hippolyte et Aricie" e "Castor et Pollux", "Dardanus" è la terza tragédie lyrique di Rameau per Parigi. La nuova edizione critica di Denis Herlin offre per la prima volta la possibilità di ripri...

This edition presents a further dramatic jewel for the stage by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It comes with a vocal score for study and rehearsals as well as with a compilation of the purely instrumental part...

Questa riduzione per pianoforte integra il materiale esecutivo della comédie-ballet "Les Paladins" di Rameau. In considerazione della ricchezza dei suoi tesori musicali e delle innovazioni stilistiche...

Salve! luminosa Cecilia, salve a te. Grande patrona di noi e dell'armonia!. - Con questa esclamazione inizia il coro finale dell'omonima ode di Cecilia di Henry Purcell del 1692. La composizione è un...

Das deutsche Nunc dimittis 'Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener' hat Schütz 1656 anlässlich des Todes des sächsischen Kurfürsten Johann Georg I. gleich 'auf zweyerlei Art' vertont und drucken lassen. D...

In his Christmas motet 'Hodie Christus natus est' Schütz employs the full mastery of his madrigalian musical language and exploits all the sonorous richness which the six part scoring offers him. The...

No. 13 of the 'Opus ultimum'

Alongside Gesualdo and Monteverdi, Marenzio is one of the great Italian madrigalists. The influence of his sophisticated madrigalian art on the younger generation of composers is shown by the fact tha...

At the age of eighty-six Heinrich Schütz composed his last work in 1671 with his monumental setting of Psalm 119, complemented in an appendix with a setting of Psalm 100, and a setting of a German Mag...

Cosa c'entra l'"Oratorio di Natale" di Bach con Ercole? Più di quanto si possa pensare a prima vista. Nell'estate del 1733, il 5 settembre 1733, giorno dell'undicesimo compleanno dell'Elettore sassone...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 (CV31080-00) is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently-performed cantatas. But the well-known form of the work, with its great opening chorale chorus, repr...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

Starting with an understated first verse then moving into the "bell" section over the melody in the second verse and concluding with a triumphant ending. A great closer for your Christmas program.

Classic Bach in the hands of master arranger Russell Robinson means this setting will sound as full and rich as the original, but it will be accessible to three-part choirs in a very sing-able way. Th...

Art Thou Troubled' ist ein Lied, das die heilenden Kräfte der Musik anpreist. So ist sie der 'Quell der Freude' und wird alle 'Traurigkeit heilen', da sie uns mit 'göttlicher Stimme' ruft. Die lieblic...