German Requiem in Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)Dover does an extraordinary job in developing a quite accurate version of the German Requiem.Many consider this piece to be one of the best written in the Romantic Era.Brahms's originality and experimentation between the marriage of both the orchestra and chorus make this piece absolutely one of a kind.Strongly recommended for any listener and Dover's flawless edition is the best around if the listener wants to see the piece as Brahms visioned it.

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Composer's greatest, most ambitious vocal work, a masterpiece of choral music that is now one of the most performed and recorded works in the repertoire of religious music. Reprinted in full score, including solo voices, chorus and orchestra, from definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

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Pronunciation Guide for the Lieder Anthology Bk/ 3Cds (The Vocal Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)I recommend this book. As a singing student and brazilian speaker I thought it's very helpful to listen a foreign text spoken by a native speaker. There's the text in german followed by the IPA phonetic Transliteration and the english translation. Also in CDs, for each song, there's the recording of the declamation of the text and a slower recording for best comprehension.

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with IPA and word for word translations and CDs of recorded diction lessons This is a companion to The Lieder Anthology, edited by Virginia Saya and Richard Walters, with 65 songs by 13 composers. The diction lessons were recorded by Irene Spiegelman, German coach at the Metropolitan Opera. The diction for each song is recorded twice: first recited as an actor would speak it, showing flow of the language and the mood, followed by a slow, deliberate lesson, allowing time for the student to repeat each line. This experienced language coach adapts the "R" in German in the slow versions as recommended for classical singers. She is also very sensitive to liaisons between word sounds in the musical settings. Other Lieder Anthology publications: 00740219 High Voice, book $19.95 00000455 Accompaniments, High Voice, 2 CDs $16.95 00740220 Low Voice, book $19.95 00000456 Accompaniments, Low Voice, 2 CDs $16.95

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Manhattan Music CD Canadian Brass & Eastman Wind Ensemble Review

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(More customer reviews)The Canadian Brass are always looking to rewrite the playbook when it comes to recording projects. In their storied career they helped define not only brass performance but are literally responsible for bringing certain genres of music to light for many audiences, as well as performers - baroque, renaissance, ragtime and jazz have all been explored by the Canadian Brass as they seek new arrangements and new works & commissions. This brings us to Manhattan Music - an album featuring the Canadian Brass along with the Eastman Wind Ensemble - a collaboration that works well and hopefully will continue. The title tells it all, here are four new and original works and arrangements about or inspired by Gotham. The centerpiece is the title track - Manhattan Music - by Bramwell Tovey, a transplanted Londoner (and tuba player!) now residing in Canada, that brings the dashing and dapper sounds of a cool New York to life in a series of theme and variations. New York Cityscape by Jeff Tydzik feels the Big Apple's multi-culturalism with dance movements including rags, tangos and tarantellas. Bernstein of course is synonymous with the city and the arrangement of Suite from Mass is offered. Here is a new and different take from the Canadian Brass paying homage to the center of the universe - New York City.Recommended listening.

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Recorded in the legendary Eastman Theatre, the birthplace of Frederick Fennell's wind ensemble, this CD features the renowned Canadian Brass combined with the equally acclaimed Eastman Wind Ensemble. Under the direction of Mark Davis Scatterday and featuring works commissioned specifically for this project, this is a CD of stunning beauty, power and variety. Includes: Manhattan Music (Bramwell Tovey), Suite from Mass (Leonard Bernstein/arr. Michael Sweeney), Shaker Suite (Rayburn Wright/arr. Mark Davis Scatterday) and New York Cityscape (Jeff Tyzik).

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Christmas Oratorio in Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)Dover Publications full scores are a boon for music student and others on a budget: Being reprints of old editions free of copyright, they represent the very best value-for-money on the market, even though the newest Urtext scholarship may not be present in them. Most of them are very readable, and indeed holds a high enough quality for anyone.

This publication, however, has a few problems. First of all, the print quality of Dover scores seems to be variable, and this is one of the worse ones. While the note heads themselves are very large and visible, the stems are often halfway removed (in general, the paper quality isn't as good as in most of my other Dover scores, a major point for those of us who like to make notes in our scores). In this music, you can probably predict a note value with reasonable accuracy, but it's still a bit annoying. This edition is a copy of a print from 1856 (just a couple of decades after Mendelssohns famed "rediscovery" of Bach), which not only is very old even for a Dover score, but it also means that quite a few old fashioned idioms are present. First of all, C clefs are used by soprano, alto and tenor, which may pose a problem for some. Another thing entirely is the fact that the edition was printed a century before the period style movement gained any hold, which means that the instrumentation as given in this edition is what would be used in a 19th century performance of the oratorio. Although they have been faithfull when it comes to using archaic oboes (oboe d'amore and oboe d'caccia). The trumpets are, however, assigned to then modern instruments.

The worst part about this score, however, is the fact that while instrumentation varies for each movement, the names of each instrument playing is only mentioned at the beginning of each movement; you'll have to remember for yourself after that. To make matters worse, no bar numbers are added. These kinds of things annoy me quite a bit, as it would have been a very small job for Dover to fix these points, and it would make these scores a lot more practical.

Still, it is a score of an amazing piece of music, it's cheap, and I've yet to find any errors in the music itself. So I would definitely recommend it, but there is at the same time room for improvement.

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First produced in Leipzig in 1734-35, Bach's Christmas Oratorio unfolds in a set of six cantatas unified by a Biblical narrative relating the story of the birth of Christ. This masterpiece of sacred music, for centuries a favorite of concert audiences and church congregations throughout the Christmas season, has been reproduced directly from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig.

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