Partituras de música barroca: Tesoros de una era dorada

La partitura vocal de la famosa ópera de Henry Purcell 'Dido y Eneas' se basa en la edición Bärenreiter Urtext de la partitura completa. Como fuente principal sirvió el manuscrito de Tatton Park (Nati...

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...

Concebida originalmente como prólogo para el ballet "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", la obra en un acto "La Naissance d'Osiris" sólo se representó dos veces, junto con las reposiciones de "Pigmalion" y "...

Concebida originalmente como prólogo para el ballet "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", la obra en un acto "La Naissance d'Osiris" sólo se representó dos veces, junto con las reposiciones de "Pigmalion" y "...

'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...

Después de "Hippolyte et Aricie" y "Castor et Pollux", "Dardanus" es la tercera tragédie lyrique de Rameau para París. La nueva edición crítica de Denis Herlin ofrece por primera vez la posibilidad de...

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...

Esta reducción para piano completa el material de representación de la comedia-ballet "Les Paladins" de Rameau. A la vista de la riqueza de sus tesoros musicales y de las innovaciones estilísticas -si...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

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...

¿Qué tiene que ver el "Oratorio de Navidad" de Bach con Hércules? Más de lo que podría pensarse a primera vista. El 5 de septiembre de 1733, undécimo cumpleaños del príncipe elector sajón Friedrich Ch...

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...