Preserved in the library of Venice’s Conservatorio di Musica is an elegant leather-bound volume containing the violin part of 31 virtuoso violin concertos, 26 of them by Vivaldi. The collection represents the personal repertoire of the Venetian composer’s most gifted pupil at the orphanage where he worked, the famous ‘Anna Maria della Pietà’, who also played the viola d’amore, mandolin, theorbo and harpsichord. Twenty of the Vivaldi works exist in other manuscript sources and are familiar to us in their complete versions. The remaining six — three for violin and three for violin and organ — are unique to the ‘Anna-Maria Partbook’, and, because they are incomplete, have not hitherto been part of the Vivaldi performing canon. Now, as a result of Federico Maria Sardelli’s rigorous musicological research and painstaking work of reconstruction based on many concordant sources, we are at last able to enjoy these six concertos in startlingly persuasive realizations. Volume 1 was pulished in June 2021.
Composer:Antonio Vivaldi Editor/reconstruction:Federico Maria Sardelli Publication date: July 2021 Instruments: Violin, organ, strings & basso continuo Format: Full score Series:Baroque Pages: xii/51 ISMN: 979 0 708185 34 5 ISBN: 978 1 914137 02 0 Code:HH523.FSC Price: £20.00 more information
Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 – ‘The 12th that I have composed in England’, as Haydn proudly inscribed on the autograph score – was first performed on 4 May 1795 at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, London, directed by the composer himself during a benefit concert in his honour. The occasion, unsurprisingly, was a huge success, with an ecstatic reception for the new symphony in particular. Haydn subsequently recorded in his notebook: ’The whole company was thoroughly pleased and so was I. I made four thousand Gulden on this evening. Such a thing is only possible in England.’
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Hummel’s arrangement of the Piano Concerto in D major, K537, the fifth in the series to appear, was published in 1835. The lead-in (Eingänge) models that he provided are particularly valuable in the case of K537, which is among those concertos for which Mozart left no written-out examples. Equally importantly, Hummel might well have witnessed the work’s compositional process and first performance, and thus his own contributions could be considered as authoritative.Read full description
Editor:Leonardo Miucci |Gigliola Di Grazia Publication date: February 2021 Instruments: Flute, violin, violoncello, pianoforte Format: Full score and parts Duration:c.33' Series:@Mozart Pages: xviii/45 + 3 x 16 ISMN: 979 0 708146 97 1 ISBN: 978 1 910359 87 7 Code:HH487.FSP Price: £37.00 more information
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