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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: SELECTED Within this newsletter you THE BEST OF ISAAC ALBÉNIZ PRELUDES 18 PIECES FOR PIANO LOWER will find a recap of recent Editions Salabert INTERMEDIATE classical releases from TO INTERMEDIATE LEVEL The piano works of Albéniz (1860-1909) Hal Leonard, including are a challenge to , but rewarding for Schirmer Performance Editions their sumptuous, folk-like melodies. edited by Brian Ganz publications from the many Included here are works from Iberia, Suite G. Schirmer, Inc. catalogs we distribute: espagnole no. 1, Suite espagnole no. 2, España, and more. Included in this selection are eight preludes appropriate for G. Schirmer 50486664...... $22.95 intermediate level pianists. Contents: Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. 2 • Prelude in E Associated Music JOHANNES BRAHMS: Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 • Prelude in B Minor, Op. 28, No. 6 • PIANO WORKS Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 • Prelude in E Major, Op. 28, Publishers WITHOUT OPUS NUMBER No. 9 • Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 • Prelude in C edited by Camilla Cai Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 • Prelude in G Minor, Op. 28, No. 22. Boosey & Hawkes Henle Urtext Edition 00296720 Book/CD Pack...... $8.95 Complete edition, clothbound, with critical DSCH report. FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: 51486009 Hardcover...... $305.00 BALLADES – REVISED Editions Durand edited by Norbert Müllemann fingering by Hans-Martin Editio Musica Theopold CLASSICS MEETS JAZZ Henle Urtext Edition Budapest (EMB) FOR PIANO In 1836 Chopin introduced the arranged by Uwe Korn term “ballad” into piano music Editions Max Eschig Schott with the publication of his Ballad This volume contains a wide selection of op. 23, although up to then it had G. Henle Verlag famous musical themes from Bach to Carl only been used in literature and in vocal music. Indeed, all Orff. Each piece is presented in a straight- four of Chopin’s ballads have the character of a dramatic Ricordi forward classical piano arrangement, and story: the musical thread is spun with increasing tension then a jazz interpretation, which can either throughout the work, reaching a powerful climax at the Editions Salabert be played alone or alongside the “original” end. Following the “Préludes,” we have now thoroughly version. Includes a CD of performances by the arranger. re-evaluated this edition and revised it to include the Schott 49016809 Book/CD Pack...... $24.95 latest scholarly findings. The most significant ones are documented in the printed critical apparatus; the Simrock CLASSICAL MUSIC detailed version can be downloaded from the Internet. FOR CHILDREN 51480862 Softcover ...... $28.95 edited by Marianne Magolt 51480863 Hardcover ...... $43.95 Schott 52 easier piano pieces from the Baroque, CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Classical and Romantic eras. ETUDES, include Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin VOLUMES 1 AND 2 and Debussy. A CD of full performances is Editions Durand also included. Excerpted from the 49016813 Book/CD Pack...... $17.95 Complete Works of Claude Debussy, Series I, Volume 6, edited by Claude Helffer. 50564895...$27.95 All prices in this newsletter are listed in U.S. funds. Prices, contents and availability are subject to change without notice. FRANZ LISZT: MAURICE RAVEL: PIANO (CONTINUED) HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY PIANO WORKS – NO. 12 VOLUME 4 CLAUDE DEBUSSY: edited by Ernst Herttrich Editions Durand WORKS FOR PIANO, fingering by Andreas This volume contains transcriptions 4 HANDS – VOLUME 1 Groethuysen of some of Ravel’s chamber Editions Durand Preface by Mária Eckhardt and symphonic works, including This critical edition is an excerpt Henle Urtext Edition Rapsodie espagnole and Bolero. from the Complete Works of This work, in which Liszt draws 50564909...... $34.95 Claude Debussy, Series I, Volume on five different folk themes, is 7. Contents: Symphonie • Andante surely one of his most ingenious Hungarian Rhapsodies. It ROMANTIC Cantible • Diane Ouverture. offers a unique mix of melancholy, glittering keyboard PIANO ANTHOLOGY 50564906...... $22.95 acrobatics and stormy, rousing dance. The rhapsody was edited by Nils Franke dedicated to Joseph Joachim. Schott CLAUDE DEBUSSY: 51480806 Piano...... $14.95 30 pieces. Several of the pieces WORKS FOR PIANO, are available for the first time as 4 HANDS – VOLUME 2 FEDERICO MOMPOU: part of a graded collection. The Editions Durand CANCION Y DANZA NO. 9 repertoire includes works by This critical edition is an excerpt Editions Salabert major composers, such as Chopin from the Complete Works of Out of print for years, this and Schumann, as well as lesser- Claude Debussy, Series I, Volume short dance is appropriate for known pieces by, amongst others, Bortkiewicz and Rimsky- 7. Contents: Triomphe de Bacchus intermediate level pianists. Korsakov. These collections are ideal for piano teachers • Intermezzo • Divertissement. 50486665...... $4.95 looking for additional repertoire for their teaching 50564907...... $24.95 practice. Includes a CD of full performances. 49016812 Book/CD Pack...... $12.95 THE BEST OF ENRIQUE GRANADOS THE BEST OF THE BEST OF 19 PIECES FOR PIANO ENNIO MORRICONE FLORENT SCHMITT edited by Gérald Hugon VOLUME 2 19 PIECES FOR PIANO Editions Salabert ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Editions Durand 19 pieces from one of Spain’s COLLECTION Frenchman Florent Schmitt (1870- greatest composers, Enrique with a companion CD 1958), student of Fauré, composed Granados (1867-1916),including of film score excerpts in most genres. These pieces are a piece from his most famous Ricordi appropriate for an intermediate to work Goyescas. This collection of 15 piano solos advanced level player. 50486762...... $19.95 features Morricone’s 50564908...... $19.95 compositions from soundtracks of Italian and American FRIEDRICH KUHLAU: films. The companion CD has actual recordings from the HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS: SELECTED film scores. Volume 1 is also available (50485753). SELECTIONS FROM SONATINAS 50486761 Piano Solo...... $29.95 GUIA PRÁTICO OP. 20, NOS. 1-3, OP. Editions Max Eschig 55, NOS. 1-3, OP. 88, NO. 3 WOLFGANG AMADEUS Villa-Lobos was always concerned Schirmer Performance Editions MOZART: with teaching, and between 1930 edited by Jennifer Linn SONATA IN C and 1944 he collected and G. Schirmer, Inc. MAJOR, K. 545, presented Brazilian folk tunes for Included in this volume are seven “SONATA FACILE” piano, under the name Guia prático. well-known sonatinas appropriate edited by Enrique Graf 50564910...... $14.95 for intermediate level pianists. G. Schirmer, Inc. Contents: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 20, No. 1 • Sonatina in Mozart’s most accessible piano : G Major, Op. 20, No. 2 • Sonatina in F Major, Op. 20, No. sonata in a beautiful new edition. 3 • Sonatina in C Major, Op. 55, No. 1 • Sonatina in G With a companion recording by PIANO SONATA NO. 8, Major, Op. 55, No. 2 • Sonatina in C Major, Op. 55, No. 3 the editor. OP. 66 • Sonatina in A Minor, Op. 88, No. 3. 00296705 Book/CD Pack...... $8.95 edited by Valentina Rubcova; 00296702 Book/CD Pack...... $14.95 fingering by Michael Schneidt NICCOLÒ PAGANINI: Henle Urtext Edition PAGANINI JAZZ In his last years, Scriabin realized a noble and great idea. Inspired by VARIATIONS ON THE CAPRICE his study of theosophical writings, NO. 24 IN THE STYLE OF he dreamed of joining music, MODERN JAZZ poetry, mime, architecture, light, color and even aromas to arranged by Fazil Say create a “Gesamtkunstwerk”, and thus elevate human beings Schott to a higher level of consciousness. This “Mysterium” was Paganini Jazz is a variation on never completed, but his late piano sonatas—conceived as his renowned “24th Capriccio” preliminary studies—enable us to see what moved Scriabin. theme. Originally designed as a He spent a particularly long time working on his eighth charming encore work, Fazil Say transforms the theme into sonata and proofread it intensively; but later quite a few a virtuosic classical/jazz suite. He finds inspiration in mistakes still found their way into it. Thanks to the autograph classical, modern and jazz styles, and the music of Scott and the first edition, ambiguous passages have now been Joplin, Art Tatum, George Gershwin and . cleared up and corrected in our Urtext edition. 49016162...... $16.95 51480354...... $25.95

2 The following new European publications are CATHERINE VICKERS: NAJI HAKIM: also available and, if not in stock at Hal Leonard, THE LISTENING HAND NUNC DIMITIS can easily be imported upon request. (DIE HÖRENDE HAND), Schott VOLUME 2 for 3 voices and organ FRANGHIZ ALI-ZADEH: PIANO EXERCISES FOR 49016826...... $14.95 SONATA NO. 1 FOR PIANO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Sikorski Schott 50486781...... $32.00 Catherine Vickers, winner of the Busoni Prize in 1979, has continued to build on the principles of Volume 1 (49016722) in this second volume NAJI HAKIM: of The Listening Hand. It is intended for all pianists who wish to augment their pianistic skills in music of the 20th MIT SEINEM GEIST and 21st centuries. VARIATIONS ON EIN FESTE BURG 49016914...... $28.95 Schott LERA AUERBACH: 49016825...... $21.95 24 PRELUDES Sikorski 50486628...... $58.95 ORGAN ROLANDE FALCINELLI: CHARLES KOECHLIN: POEME EN FORME SELECTED ORGAN WORKS – D’IMPROVISATION VOLUME 2 OPUS 31 Schott LERA AUERBACH: Schott Contains many works by French LUDWIGS ALPTRAUM 49016827...... $14.95 Charles Koechlin (1867- Sikorski 1950) that were previously 50486788...... $18.95 unpublished. Volume 1 is also avaialable (49033287).

JEAN GUILLOU: 49016819...... $24.95 LA RÉVOLTE DES ORGUES BARBARA KOLB: REVOLT OF THE ORGANS Schott CLOUDSPIN For 9 organs (8 chamber organs Boosey & Hawkes WERNER HEIDER: This 5-minute work for organ is EXKURSION and 1 grand organ) and percussion (3 players: 2 crotales, 5 wood inspired by the atmospheric Sikorski imagery of various cloud types. 50486778 Piano...... $26.95 blocks, 5 temple blocks, 5 toms, 4 gongs, tom-toms). 48019723...... $14.95 49016910 Score...... $56.00

NAJI HAKIM: HOMMAGE À JEAN LANGLAIS Schott PETER RUZICKA: 49016911...... $22.95 PARERGON 6 SKETCHES FROM HÖLDERLIN FOR PIANO Sikorski 50486790...... $24.95 NAJI HAKIM: MAGNIFICAT Schott for Soprano and Organ 49016823...... $14.95 PETERIS VASKS: EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK Schott 49032518 Piano...... $14.95 NAJI HAKIM: MAGNIFICAT Schott for Women’s Choir and Organ 49016824...... $14.95

3 HENRYK MIKOLAJ WOLFGANG AMADEUS GUITAR GÓRECKI: MOZART: RENAISSANCE MUSIC DLA JASIUNIA OPUS 79 SONATA IN B-FLAT FOR TWO GUITARS Boosey & Hawkes MAJOR K.292 (196C) For and piano. The title is Editio Musica Budapest FOR BASSOON AND an affectionate dedication to the These simple guitar duets are VIOLONCELLO composer’s small grandson. transcriptions of Renaissance (OR BASSO CONTINUO) 48019786...... $14.95 madrigals, songs, and dance edited by Henrik Wiese music, often for voice and lute. B.c. realization by 50486688...... $9.95 Wolfgang Kostujak Henle Urtext Edition JOHANN NEPOMUK Did Mozart intend this work to be a duo for two HUMMEL: instruments, or—as the simple basso-like manner of the POTPOURRI OP. 94 second part suggests—a sonata for bassoon and keyboard (“FANTASY”) instrument? We will probably never know the answer The following new European publications are FOR VIOLA AND because the autograph has gone missing. Our edition also available and, if not in stock at Hal Leonard, (PIANO REDUCTION) allows different instrumentation; it not only contains scores can easily be imported upon request. edited by Johanna Steiner for the duo version but also one so it can be performed as and Norbert Gertsch; a solo bassoon sonata, following the style of the time with a KONSTANTIN VASSILIEV: piano reduction Johannes figured bass realization. And cellists—who are not blessed BERG-RHAPSODIE Umbreit; viola fingering by with many works by Mozart—will appreciate the version of RHAPSODY ON A THEME Tabea Zimmermann this endearing work for and figured bass. BY ALBAN BERG Henle Urtext Edition 51480827...... $24.95 Sikorski Hummel’s “Potpourri” is part of every viola player’s core 50486779 ...... $18.95 repertoire, especially in its shortened version, the KURT WEILL: “Fantasy.” THE MAGIC NIGHT WALTZ 51480838...... $33.95 FROM ZAUBERNACHT Violin and Piano JOHANN NEPOMUK by Meirion Bowen HUMMEL: European American/Universal BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: POTPOURRI OP. 95 Editions CROSSROADS NO. 3 (“FANTASY”) 49014051...... $9.95 FOR GUITAR FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA Sikorski (PIANO REDUCTION) 50486796...... $29.95 edited by Johanna Steiner KURT WEILL: SONATA FOR and Norbert Gertsch; CELLO AND PIANO (1920) piano reduction Johannes European American Music Umbreit; cello fingering by Based on the 2004 critical Sebastian Hess edition, Weill’s sole work for cello Henle Urtext Edition and piano is available in a new In addition to the edition for viola, Hummel produced performance edition. this version for cello. The version presented here was 49016756...... $24.95 out of print for many years, but we have now made it available again. INSTRUMENTAL/ 51480839...... $37.95 BENJAMIN LEES: BY COMPOSER NO. 3 The following new European publications are Boosey & Hawkes also available and, if not in stock at Hal Leonard, ANTONÍN DVORÁK: This 40-minute work was can easily be imported upon request. DUMKY PIANO TRIO commissioned and premiered by OP. 90 the Tokyo String Quartet. A set of FRANGHIZ ALI-ZADEH: edited by Klaus Döge; parts is also available from the IN SEARCH OF... piano fingering by publisher (HL48019708). Sikorski Andreas Groethuysen 48019709 Study Score.....$29.95 50486785 String Quartet.$44.00 Henle Urtext Edition This beloved masterwork is comprised of six “Dumky,” plural of Dumka, a Slavic dance form with noticeable melancholic and boisterous passages. 51480799...... $37.95 GERALD FINZI: LERA AUERBACH: FIVE BAGATELLES SONATA NO. 2 FOR TRANSCRIPTION FOR VIOLA VIOLIN AND PIANO Boosey & Hawkes “SEPTEMBER 11” Finzi’s well-loved and long- Sikorski established repertoire 50486787...... $34.95 piece has been idiomatically transcribed here for viola and piano. Suitable for intermediate to advanced players. 48019785...... $22.95 4 LERA AUERBACH: VASSILY LOBANOV: VIKTOR SUSLIN: 1756 T’FILAH AND STRING QUARTET Sikorski LONELY SUITE NO. 6 OP. 77 Commissioned by the 6th Sikorski Sikorski International Violin Competition 50486630 Violin...... $16.95 50486782 Score Leopold Mozart. and Parts ...... $55.00 50486438 Violin Solo...... $18.95

LERA AUERBACH: KRZYSZTOF MEYER: HUW WATKINS: OSKOLKI - POSTLUDE AU-DELÀ D’UNE ABSENCE FANTASY Sikorski Sikorski Schott 50486783 Violin String Quartet for Viola and Piano and Piano ...... $34.95 50486780 Score and 49016822...... $19.95 Parts...... $66.95

HEINZ HOLLIGER: OLLI MUSTONEN: ROMANCENDRES SONATE FOR CELLO Schott 49026157 Cello ....$41.95 AND PIANO Schott INSTRUMENTAL 49016913...... $34.95 COLLECTIONS CLASSIC MOODS Book/CD Pack : Sikorski (MA)(S)SACRILEGION For recorder and 2 instruments D’HORREUR in C. JAN MÜLLER-WIELAND: 50486797...... $26.95 Schott SONATA FOR CELLO For 8 piccolos and 4 Basel Drums AND PIANO (with 8 whistles). Score and Parts Sikorski 49016909 Score 50486791...... $34.95 and Parts ...... $55.00 THE FIDDLER PLAYALONG HEINZ HOLLIGER: COLLECTION, VOLUME 2 POUR ROLAND CAVIN VIOLIN MUSIC FROM Schott JAN MÜLLER-WIELAND: AROUND THE WORLD for piccolo, SCHLAFLIED arranged by 49016828...... $7.95 Sikorski Edward Huws Jones for violin, cello and piano Boosey & Hawkes 50486795...... $34.95 This sequel to The Fiddler Playalong Collection, Volume 1 (48018957) includes 18 more popular international pieces from Huws Jones’ Fiddler Collections series. Includes principal violin melody part at an intermediate level, easy violin part for beginners, guitar chords, plus a HEINZ HOLLIGER: choice of piano accompaniment or a more advanced violin (É)CRI(T) OLLI MUSTONEN: accompaniment (teacher’s part). CD includes audio Schott SINUHE backing and full performance tracks. 49016829...... $7.95 SONATA FOR SOLO Contents include: Red-Haired Boy • The Bridal • Schott Paragon Rag • Mrs. McLeod’s Reel • Blackberry Blossom 49016831...... $10.95 • Away in a Manger • La Cumparsita • and more! 48019743 Book/CD Pack...... $29.95 CLASSICAL TRIO MUSIC FOR BEGINNERS (FIRST POSITION) Editio Musica Budapest These arrangements in first position include pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Pleyel and Bruni. 50486686...... $18.95

5 TROMBONE VERDI ARIAS JOSEPH HAYDN: FUNDAMENTALS FOR TENOR THE SEASONS HOB. XXI:3 Schott VOLUME 2 edited by Armin Raab This volume is the result of 20 Ricordi Henle years of teaching experience and Includes a CD with a full Complete edition, paperbound, is aimed at both beginners and performance with orchestra, as with critical report. advanced trombonists. Klaus well as a fully-orchestrated Bruschke provides a wealth of accompaniment track. Contains material for daily practicing as the lyrics of the arias, plus a short well as various exercises on the plot summary and background following themes: Breathing, buzzing, tonguing, information on the orchestra and the performers. Includes 51485841 Softcover First Half ...... $319.00 coordination and velocity, intervals, thirds, arpeggios, 8 pieces from , I Lombardi alla prima Crociata, I 51485844 Softcover Second Half...... $450.00 dotted notes, chromaticism, legato, dynamics, intonation. masnadieri, La traviata, Il trovatore, Un ballo in 51485842 Clothbound First Half...... $333.00 49016814...... $24.95 maschera, , and Falstaff. 51485845 Clothbound Second Half ...... $465.00 50486757 Book/CD Pack...... $29.95 JOSEPH HAYDN: PETER RUZICKA: STRING QUARTETS “...UND MÖCHTET VOLUME II, OP. 9 VOCAL IHR AN MICH DIE edited by Georg Feder HÄNDE LEGEN...” Henle PUCCINI ARIAS FIVE FRAGMENTS Six works belong to opus 9 – the FOR SOPRANO FROM HÖLDERLIN first group of Haydn’s string VOLUME 2 Sikorski quartets of which we know. The Ricordi 50486776 and composer also went new ways as Includes a CD with a full Piano...... $26.95 far as form was concerned: performance with orchestra, as whereas he had still adhered to the five movement well as a fully-orchestrated divertimento in the previous quartets opus 1 and 2, in this accompaniment track. Contains : case he favored four movements, something he continued the lyrics of the arias, plus a short 6 POEMS OF MARINA in the future. Apart from this, he also expanded the register plot summary and background TSVETAYEVA OP. 143 and experimented with metric surprises (for instance in information on the orchestra and the performers. Includes Sikorski the trio of the minuet from the G major quartet). This study pieces from Edgar, Le Villi, Manon Lescaut, Madama 50486800...... $24.95 edition, introduced with a preface by the Haydn specialist Butterfly, and La fanciulla del West. Georg Feder, complements our proven parts edition 50486758 Book/CD Pack...... $29.95 (51480206) and now presents these popular works to all music lovers in score form. PUCCINI ARIAS 51489206 Study Score...... $29.95 FOR TENOR VOLUME 2 : Ricordi KANONS Includes a CD with a full perform- VOLUME 1 ance with orchestra, as well as a Schott fully-orchestrated accompani- In print here for the first ment track. Contains the lyrics of SCORES time. Choir a cappella. Hindemith the arias, plus a short plot sum- composed these more than mary and background informa- DOMINICK ARGENTO: 30 artistic postcard-sized works tion on the orchestra and the performers. Includes pieces SIX ELIZABETHAN SONGS to convey season’s greetings, from: Edgar, Le Villi, Manon Lescaut, Gianni Schicchi, FOR HIGH VOICE congratulations on birthdays and Madama Butterfly, and La fanciulla del West. AND BAROQUE ENSEMBLE anniversaries, and thanks to friends, colleagues and 50486759 Book/CD Pack...... $29.95 Boosey & Hawkes cultural institutions. This facsimile edition of Argento’s 49032915...... $34.95 VERDI ARIAS chamber orchestration for high FOR SOPRANO voice and Baroque ensemble GIYA KANCHELI VOLUME 2 includes a full score and parts for (KANTSCHELI): Ricordi flute, oboe, violin, and cello. In TWILIGHT Includes a CD with a full print for the first time! Sikorski performance with orchestra, as 48019672 Score and Parts ...... $50.00 50486793 Score...... $38.95 well as a fully-orchestrated accompaniment track. Contains EDWARD ELGAR: the lyrics of the arias, plus a short POMP AND plot summary and background CIRCUMSTANCE information on the orchestra and the performers. This MARCH NO. 6 pack includes 8 pieces from , Macbeth, Un ballo Boosey & Hawkes in maschera, , and Aida. Anthony Payne completed and 50486756 Book/CD Pack...... $29.95 orchestrated this march based on newly rediscovered sources. He employed his in-depth understanding of Elgar’s style and techniques to create a sequence of verses akin to the other Pomp and Circumstance marches. Premiered in 2006. 48030006 Full Score...... $32.95

6 GYÖRGY LIGETI: GIYA KANCHELI MYSTERIES OF (KANTSCHELI): LIBRETTO THE MACABRE A LITTLE DANELIADE HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Schott Sikorski THE MINOTAUR Three arias from the Le for violin, piano and strings Boosey & Hawkes Grand Macabre. Study score. (percussion ad libitum) This opera by British composer 49015452 Full Score...... $34.95 50486792 Study Score.....$34.95 Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934) and librettist David Harsent (b.1942) premiered in London on April 15, 2008. 48019821 Libretto...... $24.00 MANUEL MUNZLINGER: ROBERT SCHUMANN: JAZZ CONCERTO VERZWEIFLE NICHT Sikorski IM SCHMERZENSTAL for oboe and strings OPUS 93 50486786 Score...... $63.95 MOTET AFTER FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT FOR DOUBLE MALE CHOIR (ORGAN AD LIB.) Schott BOOKS At first described as “religious HENLE NOTES song” by Schumann, this motet FAZIL SAY: PATARA A MINIATURE BOOKLET OF was premiered on July 4, 1850. He wrote the organ version 8 STAVE MANUSCRIPT PAPER specifically for this performance for he had originally HOMMAGE A MOZART Quartet for Soprano, Ney Flute, Henle planned an orchestral accompaniment. That, however, This 32 page, pocket sized could only be completed later and was eventually Piano And Percussion 49016912...... $46.95 manuscript paper booklet features premiered in 1853. high quality, cream-colored paper 49016820...... $24.95 and is handy for any use. Dimensions: approximately 4 x 6 inches. The following new European publications are 51488000...... $1.50 also available and, if not in stock at Hal Leonard, are easily imported. WENCHEN QIN: FIVE THE INFINITE VARIETY SONGS ON THE HORIZON OF MUSIC MORITZ EGGERT: Sikorski by Leonard Bernstein INTERIOR AT PETWORTH for cello, accordion and 15 solo Amadeus Press EIGHT VARIATIONS OF A strings With style, wit, and expertise, PICTURE OF WILLIAM TURNER 50486784 Score...... $65.00 Leonard Bernstein shares his Sikorski love and appreciation for music for flute, clarinet, percussion, in all its varied forms in The piano, violin, viola and cello Infinite Variety of Music, 50486777 Score...... $62.00 illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an GUOPING JIA: “imaginary conversation” with George Washington entitled “The Muzak Muse,” in which he argues the values of THE WIND SOUNDS actively listening to music by learning how to read notes, as IN THE SKY opposed to simply hearing music in a concert hall. The for sheng, cello and book also features the reproduction of five television percussion scripts from Bernstein on the influence of jazz, the timeless A sheng is a Chinese appeal of Mozart, musical romanticism, and the mouth organ made of complexities of rhythmic innovation. Also included are bamboo pipes. Bernstein’s analyses of symphonies by Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, 50486794 Score...... $28.95 Beethoven, and Brahms, a rare reproduction of a 1957 lecture on the nature of composing, and a report on the GIYA KANCHELI musical scene written for the New York Times after his (KANTSCHELI): sabbatical leave from directorship of the New York STYX Philharmonic during the 1964-65 season. 00331785...... $16.95 Sikorski for viola, mixed choir and orchestra 50486789 Study Score.....$72.00

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HERBERT MUSIC THEORY BOOKS (CONTINUED) VON KARAJAN Paperback Songs This handy bargain-priced guide FRANCO CORELLI A LIFE IN PICTURES by Jürgen Otten will reveal the secrets of PRINCE OF TENORS Amadeus Press music theory by covering the by René Seghers The official book supporting fundamentals of rhythm, pitch, and Amadeus Press “Karajan 2008,” a world- harmony. Detailed explanations His exceptional good looks made wide campaign to celebrate in easy-to-understand terms him a matinee idol, and Franco Karajan’s centenary. and written exercises make Corelli—the Prince of Tenors— learning a breeze, and illustrations was dubbed “Mr. Soldout” for 20 , throughout help illuminate the text. consecutive years. In 1958, just arguably the greatest and most flamboyant conductor and Topics covered include: scales, seven years after beginning his musical director of his time, remains today as one of the chords, and intervals; major and minor key centers; career, he was already the highest- giants of 20th-century classical music. His contribution to common chord progressions; rhythm feels and figures • and paid tenor in . Following his Met debut in 1961, he was classical music, his legacy, and his celebrity status are more. celebrated as the greatest tenor in the world, a position that unchallenged. 00240322...... $7.95 he retained until his departure from the Met in 1975. Karajan’s exceptional charisma makes him the perfect His charismatic performances in such as La Vestale subject for the pictorial journey this book presents. It is the SO WHEN DOES THE and Fedora (both in collaboration with ), ultimate visual testimony and photographic homage to this FAT LADY SING? coupled with a formidable mystique, as well as a number of great and extravagant classical music personality. Its QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS notorious and colorful incidents, including his real-life features include: ABOUT LIFE, SEX, LOVE, AND – sword fight with Boris Christoff in , the Callas walkout • 12,000-word bio essay by Jürgen Otten and introduction OH, YES – OPERA there, the beating up of a spectator in , and the by Anne-Sophie Mutter by Michael Walsh alleged biting of on a Boston tour of • Over 150 photos in black-and-white and color, with Amadeus Press Turandot, created a mania for Corelli. dozens of quotations Think opera’s just about starving Nearly a decade in the making, this definitive biography is • Edited by Pierre-Henri Verlhac, publisher of high-end artists, vengeful goddesses, randy based on the author’s extensive research of theater archives French photo books noblemen, and adulterous lovers? and interviews with the opera star’s numerous friends, fam- • and more! Think again. In So When Does ily members, colleagues (Nilsson, Pavarotti, and many oth- 00331942...... $49.95 the Fat Lady Sing?, Michael Walsh, the former music critic ers), as well as the management of some of the world’s for Time magazine, takes audiences on a wise and witty leading opera houses. dash through 400 years of operatic history and culture. 00332718...... $34.95 More a freewheeling dialogue between author and reader than a traditional quiz book, So When Does the Fat Lady Sing? poses irreverent and impertinent questions designed not so much to test knowledge as to inspire and entertain both expert and novice alike. Curtain up! 00331784...... $10.95

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