Classical Opera category: 1804 books

Great virtuoso's best, most important solo piano works: the 7 Elegies; the 6 Sonatinas; the enormous and complex Contrapuntal Fantasy; the Fantasy after J. S. Bach; the Indian Diary (4 piano studies on American Indian motifs); and the 6 Pieces, Op. 33b. Authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel editions.

Michel Legrand: The Piano Collection is a definitive compilation of 25 best-loved songs by the award-winning songwriter, arranged for Piano and Voice. Michel Legrand has been a seemingly inexhaustible songwriter, film score & stage composer, arranger and jazz pianist since the 1950s. This...

Essential Bach Arranged for Guitar provides guitarists with a new approach to many of Bach's masterpieces. The fingerings in the arrangements make the guitar sound rich and full, as if the pieces were written for the instrument. Attention is given to the musical line by using cross-string fingerings...

This volume contains English translations of three important literary works by Austrian conductor Felix Weingartner (1863–1942). The title essay is a detailed account of specific performing difficulties and questions of interpretation in each of the nine symphonies, a comprehensive treatment that will...

The elegant Romantic piano music of Anton Arensky served as the foundation of works by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. This collection of short works contains the title suite as well as Six Canonic Pieces, Three Esquisses, Six Essais sur les Rhythmes Oubilées, Four Etudes, Six Caprices, and Scherzo.

The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Élisabeth-Paule Labat  shares her interior experience of music and thus...

These mandolin duet arrangements of the music of J. S. Bach are drawn from several sources. Most are arrangements of keyboard pieces from The Anna Magdalena Notebook, English and French Suites, Two-Part Inventions, and some miscellaneous keyboard pieces. Some of these are duet arrangements of music...

Song For Athene, for unaccompanied SATB choir, was commissioned by the BBC and written in memory of Athene Hariades, who died in March 1993. The text is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Orthodox Funeral Service. The work was first performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in September...

John Tavener: God Is With Us is a Christmas proclamation for tenor (or baritone) solo, SATB choir and organ. This work by John Tavener (1944-2013) was commissioned by Winchester Cathedral in tribute to Martin Neary for his work at Winchester Cathedral during the years 1972-1987. It was first performed in December 1987 by the Choir of Winchester Cathedral conducted by Martin Neary.

Great operatic masterpiece reprinted complete and unabridged from rare, limited and numbered full-score edition (for solo voice, chorus and orchestra), approved by Strauss. Published by Adolph Fürstner, Paris and Berlin, 1910. First inexpensive, high-quality edition.

Like Ted Dalbottens previous books, Winterreise and Triptych a Mystery (Part I, The Painting) which among other material dealt with various aspects of both the performing and non performing arts, the present volume aside from its examination of the human condition concerns itself particularly with...

Bach's cello suites are among the most famous solo instrumental works of all time. The cello and the tenor banjo share the same tuning, and banjo players might be surprised at how well this great music fits on the fretboard. Rob MacKillop has provided tablature for the first three suites. Here is...

Rob MacKillop presents 24 superb solo guitar works by Belgian composer Gilbert Isbin, one of the most interesting, dynamic and poetic composers writing for the guitar today. All 24 pieces have been recorded by Rob MacKillop–a magnificent solo recording in itself. The book contains standard...

Questo breve compendio della storia musicale occidentale non ha pretesa di esaustività né di particolare minuziosità; tuttavia, proprio per la sua estrema concisione, mira a essere un agilissimo manualetto di consultazione per comprendere le fondamentali linee guida di sviluppo della “nostra”...