Andrea Chenier: Vocal Score (Italian Language Edition) (Vocal Score) (Kalmus Classic Edition) (Italian Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is truly a poor quality score. The edges of the pages look and feel as if they have been cut with a chain saw; the print quality is appalling; and the page numbers are placed deep inside the centre of the book, making me wonder if the score was incorrectly put together. This last point makes it very difficult to find a page number quickly. I have covered my score to try to afford it some protection, but have no faith that it will not fall apart quickly. Sad.

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Kalmus proudly introduces the addition of this famous Italian opera to its catalog of complete works.Like others in the series, this vocal score includes a complete piano reduction for rehearsal purposes.

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Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (Katerina Ismailov): Opera Vocal Score in Russian and English (DSCH) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a reprint of the vocal score issued in 1935 by Universal Edition and MUSGIS Moskvá.Already there's censorship of both the music and the text present (not as severe as with the 1962 "Katjerína Izmáylova" version, Op.29/114 - but still purged enough - the irony is that it still wasn't tamed enough for Stáljin's tastes!).While good as a curiosity, save your money and first buy the vocal score of the 1932 version from Hans Sikorski (especially if you can accept not having an English text - they have it in Russian and German - either way, it's still in print to the best of my knowledge) - OR wait until they publish the English text that has already been prepared for Boosey & Hawkes.

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This is the only edition currently in print of Shostakovich's operatic masterpiece, a reprint of the 1935 edition of the opera, especially prepared by DSCH, the company begun by the composer's widow. This is a hardbound, deluxe publication, with the sung text in both Russian and English. 324 pages.

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My Life with Albertine (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)My Life With Albertine
Exquisite. Gordon's contemplative score often recalls salon music of the 1920s. Piano notes fall like teardrops. Throbbing cello and violin lines suggest quickening of breath. A sensual 'Sometimes' and a yearning 'But What I Say' are highlights among the 16 songs and extensive underscoring given dark, gleaming orchestration by Bruce Coughlin.

Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger

The melodies stick with you long afterwards...two unmistakable gems in 'Talk About the Weather' and Ms. O'Hara's wistful finale, 'If It Is True.'-

Jeremy McCarter, The New York Sun

The music swirls with regret, romance, and a sense of lost time.

Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Gordon writes beautiful music.
About a year ago the composer/lyricist's life intersected again with CMU's College of Fine Arts . The 1980 grad was there because his life had such significance that he received an alumnus award. Other theatre alums came too, Ted Danson and Rob Marshall. But you probably know Gordon's name less.
He's got major credits, especially for vocal music, operas, operettas and song collections involving such artists as Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Audra McDonald. And he often gravitates to setting poetry.
Back in 2002 he wrote a musical featuring poetry by Langston Hughes, Only Heaven (likewise on ps classics.) It played way off-Broadway, Dayton , Ohio . Last year this show opened in New York 's actual off-Broadway but ran for less than a month. Thank goodness both scores can be heard by all of us. Each is worth the visit.
Again, as with Hughes, an eloquent word-artist is evoked, Marcel Proust. My Life with Albertine evokes his Albertine Disparue from 1925. Within the setting of Paris 1919, the score has the delicacy and grace you'd expect for the source, the period, the place. Impressions of Debussy, Satie and Poulenc waft through the gentle air. Fragrances of waltzes, polkas, schottisches come and go. So too do suggestions of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. Bien sur.
The 12 member cast includes Brent Carver, best known as multi-award winner for his role in Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman. Actually the cast outnumbers the instrumental ensemble's seven pieces. But the collective sound has the perfect, impeccable, discreet resonance that belongs with such a work.
Perhaps it was too fragile for sensation-seeking New York audiences. At home, if you listen by candlelight savoring wine and perhaps a madeleine, you'll savor many degrees of taste.

Gordon Spencer,Pittsburgh Magazine

Review by David Hurst

Last March, Playwrights Horizons took a bold chance with a small chamber musical called My Life With Albertine with book and lyrics by Richard Nelson and a score by Ricky Ian Gordon. Based on the Albertine sections of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, it was clearly going to be a hard sell and, indeed, it struggled to find an audience receiving mixed to negative reviews even though it boasted a stellar cast that included Brent Carver, Kelli O'Hara, Chad Kimball, Donna Lynne Champlin and Emily Skinner. Wisely, PS Classics preserved Gordon's lush and haunting score with the resulting recording revealing gorgeous melodies and astonishing singing. Granted, it's not a conventional musical and it takes a little work to fully invest yourself in Gordon's music but it's worth the effort and smaller, regional companies will undoubtedly stage their own productions thanks to PS Classics exceptional disc.

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Based on incidents in Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, this musical was written by the contemporary Broadway team of Ricky Ian Gordon and Richard Nelson. This folio features the vocal score to all 23 pieces. Includes: But What I Say Is... * If It Is True * Is It Too Late? (Albertine's Last Letter) * My Soul Weeps * Sometimes * and more.

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La Cenerentola (Kalmus Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)The music appears to have been put through a photocopier thrice too often.The Italian is difficult to read and the music is very tight on the page.There are no critical notes and no indication about what is editorial and what is Rossini.
This edition DOES NOT contain the exciting Alidoro aria that was discovered in an Italian library to replace his rather ho-hum original.
However, this is still the standard edition of the vocal score used by most opera companies and has been used for many years.It is considerably less expensive and more convenient than the two volume critical edition.If you're in the opera, this is the best choice.If you're studying/conducting the opera, get the critical edition.

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Italian Only.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Cinderella (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)This Vocal Score has all of the music from the show- even scene change and bows and exit music.(...)

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Vocal score to the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with 17 numbers, including: Boys and Girls like You and Me * Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? * Gavotte * In My Own Little Corner * A Lovely Night * Wedding Processional * and more.

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Sweeney Todd - Vocal Selections Review

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(More customer reviews)After taking a part in this show in the fall of 1998, I fell in love with each character within the show.I desperately wanted the score to the show, but realized that this idea was out of the question because it would cost me (too much money).In theater class, i was searching through scripts and came across this rather thin but thourough script of Sweeney Todd. It's definitely a keeper with all of the rare pictures and drawings thatare included in it.Buy it!

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Titles are: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd * Johanna * Wait * Green Finch and Linnet Bird * Pretty Women * By the Sea * Not While I'm Around.

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