| Steffani, Agostino / Mauro, Ortensio | | Henrico Leone | OPERA Spectrum of European Music Theatre in Separate Editions 5
Editors: Seidenberg, Christin / Giuggioli, Matteo / Seuffert, Janette | | BA 8821-01 | EUR 398.00 | Full score, linen-bound | 9790006567188 | Reduced subscription price available
Agostino Steffani's "Henrico Leone" is a work that stands out in the history of opera at the end of the 17th century due to the confluence of very different factors. The world premiere marked the inauguration of the newly built opera house in Hanover in 1689. At the same time, the Hanoverian Duke Ernst August used this "dramma per musica" to demonstrate his claim to power and for political propaganda. The libretto by Bartolomeo Ortensio Mauro is based on historical material that is not only to be understood as an allegory of the ruling dynasty, but is also directly reminiscent of the most famous ancestor from the Welf dynasty. Spectacular was not only the state-of-the-art stage technology that Ernst August had installed in the new opera house and which offered previously unknown possibilities for the opening opera. He also had first-class artists including the composer Steffani and famous singers such as Nicola Paris and Vittoria Tarquini at his disposal.
This edition of "Henrico Leone" enables a milestone of early opera history to be made accessible. The musical edition offers the 'definitive version' in the main section and the earliest layer of composition in the appendix. The text edition takes on not only the text of the stage work itself, but also the paratexts (including their French and German translations).
The fifth volume of the OPERA series consists of the cloth-bound volume and the Edirom on a credit card USB flash drive. Further information on the work and the OPERA series can be found at: www.opera-edition.com.
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| | Eleventh volume of the Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition
Foreword (Eng/Cz) with new findings about the genesis of both works
Critical report (Eng/Cz)
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| Martinu, Bohuslav | | The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca H 352 / The Parables H 367 | The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition II/2/7
Editors: Stollberg, Arne / Müller, Janina | | BA 10582-01 | EUR 360.00 | Full score, linen-bound | 9790260109582 | Reduced subscription price available
"The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca" and "The Parables" represent the culmination of the late Neo-Impressionist orchestral output of Bohuslav Martinu, marked by a fantastic, kaleidoscopic style. Martinu transforms his extramusical (visual, literary) inspirations into the principles of musical forms, which are open to associations from mood setting to philosophical inquiries into the essence of human existence.
The mottos of the first two movements of "The Parables" reference "The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. For the third movement, Martinu created a motto out of loosely strung excerpts from Georges Neveux's play "The Voyage of Theseus", which later provided the subject matter for Martinu's opera "Ariadne" (1958). Although the music of "The Parables" relates to the mottos only abstractly or, in the case of the third movement, perhaps somewhat accidentally, these texts are nevertheless an integral part of "The Parables".
This volume is based on a thorough assessment of all of the composer's autographs and their copies, as well as Martinu's extensive correspondence, which is the source of numerous new findings regarding the genesis of both compositions. The editors included this information in the Foreword, which also examines the mottos of "The Parables" in the context of the composer's late works.
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| Gade, Niels Wilhelm | | Psyche op. 60 | Concert Piece for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra
Niels W. Gade. Works IV/7
Editor: Eskildsen, Karsten | | BA 7626 | EUR 391.00 | Full score, linen-bound | 9790006487837 | Reduced subscription price available
"Psyche's love and fervent devotion and faithfulness lead her through suffering and death to a higher world and to a higher, purer life; yet, it always tastes of bird, even if only the flapping of wings is heard." This is what Gade wrote in a letter to the Danish pastor and poet Christian Richardt when he gave him a vocal score for Christmas 1882.
After “Psyche” was premiered at the Birmingham Musical Festival on August 31, 1882, under the composer's direction (with William Stockley's Orchestra and the Birmingham Festival Choral Society), it became a regular hit the following year with numerous English choral societies, which apparently competed with one another to be the first to perform the new work: Nine performances are recorded between November 27 and December 20, 1882, including a much-discussed concert on December 12 at St. James' Hall in London with the ambitious Willings Choir and with soloists such as the soprano Marie Roze, who had already sung the part of Psyche at the premiere. In the course of the following year, “Psyche” was performed a total of 27 times in Great Britain, and subsequently 33 more times during Gade's lifetime. In Germany, on the other hand, only four performances were recorded during his life. | | |
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