Music Reviews Editor's Choice
- Music Reviews Editor's Choice
Simon Bar Jona Madelka . Septem psalmi poenitentiales quinque vocibus exornati = Sedm kajících žalmů pětihlasem vyzdobených = Sieben Busspsalmen für fünf Stimmen = Seven Penitential Psalms for Five Voices. Editor Miloslav Klement. Praha: Editio Bärenreiter Praha, 2007. [Preface in Czech, Ger., Eng. by Jakub Michl, p. v-vi, viii-x, xi-xiii; editorial notes and annotations by Miloslav Klement, p. vii-viii, x-xi, xiv-xv; score, p. 1-127. ISMN 979-0-2601-0417-4; ISMN M-2601-0417-4; pub. no. H 7999. €23.95.]
Johann Hermann Schein . Gelegenheitskompositionen, Teil 3: Kantionalsätze und weltliche Kompositionen. Herausgegeben von Claudia Theis. (Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, Bd. 10.3.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2008. [Contents, p. v-vi; pref. in Ger., p. vii-xi; abbrevs., p. xii; chron. list of datable Gelegenheitskompositionen (compositions for special occasions), p. xiii-xv; alpha. list of undatable Gelegenheitskompositionen, p. xv; alpha. list of all surviving Gelegenheitskompositionen, p. xvi-xvii; alpha. list of lost Gelegenheitskompositionen, p. xvii-xix; alpha. list by dedicatee names, p. xx-xxiii; facsims., p. xxiv-xxx; score, p. 3-96; Krit. Bericht, p. 97-121; alpha. index, p. 122. ISMN 979-0-006-49686-0; pub. no. BA 4500. €123.88.]
John Hingeston . Fantasia-Suites for Three & Four Viols and Organ. Reconstructed from the Composer's Organ Parts by Harold Owen. (Viol Consort Series, no. 74.) Albany, CA: PRB Productions, 2009. [Contents, p. ii; introd., p. iii; crit. commentary, p. iv-v; facsim., p. v; score, p. 1-38; and 5 parts ( 9, 2, 9, 9, 19 p.). ISBN 978-1-56571-341-3; pub. no. PRB VC074. $35.]
A. T. Huerta (1800-1874): Life and Works. Edited by Javier Suárez-Pajares and Robert Coldwell. [San Antonio, TX]: DGA Editions, 2006. [Introd. in Eng., Spa., p. 4-7; chronology, p. 8-51; bibliog., p. 52-54; works list, p. 55-58; editorial notes, p. 59-60; about the editors & acknowledgments, p. 61; iconography (with illus.), p. 62-69; appendix, p. 70-87; score, p. 88-181. ISBN 0-9776926-8-X, 978-0-9776926-8-2; pub. no. DGA Editions 301. $29.95.]
Georg Friedrich Händel . Arienalbum: Männerrollen für hohe Stimme aus Händels Opern = Aria Album: Male Roles for High Voice from Handel's Operas. Zusammengestellt von = Compiled by Donald Burrows. [End Page 857] Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2009. [Contents, p. iii; pref. in Eng., Ger., p. iv-xi; texts in Ital., Eng., Ger., p. xiii-xvii; vocal score, p. 2-79. ISMN 979-0-006-53728-0; pub. no. BA 4296. €21.95.]
Henri-Joseph Rigel . Duo pour piano-forte et clavecin, op. XIV no. 1; Duo pour piano-forte et clavecin, op. XIV no. 2; Duo pour piano-forte et clavecin, op. XIV no. 3. Préparation de l'édition: Marc Dormont. (Collection Musique de chambre.) Versailles: Editions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2008. [3 scores (available separately), 43, 21, 21 p. respectively; biographical and editorial notes in Fre., p. 3 (each vol.); ISMN M-56016-191-4 (no. 1), M-56016-192-1 (no. 2), M-56016-193-8 (no. 3); pub. nos. CAH191 (no. 1), CAH192 (no. 2), CAH193 (no. 3). Also available in the composer's arrangements as Quatuor[s] pour pianoforte et cordes, with same opus numbers: 3 scores (available separately), 45, 23, 23 p. respectively; biographical and editorial notes in Fre., p. 3 (each vol.); ISMN M-56016-194-5 (no. 1), M-56016-195-2 (no. 2), M-56016-196-9 (no. 3); pub. nos. CAH194 (no. 1), CAH195 (no. 2), CAH196 (no. 3). €15.50 (no. 1, both versions), €8.60 (nos. 2 and 3, both versions). String parts (2 violins, cello) available separately.]
Gerhard Frommel . Sämtliche Lieder mit Klavierbegleitung II (hohe und mittlere Stimme). Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Osthoff. Kassel: Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 2008. [Vorwort in Ger., p. iv-vi; score, p. 3-78; Krit. Bericht, p. 81-93; corrigenda zu Band I, p. 94. ISMN M-2021-1942-6; ISMN 979-0-2021-1942-6; pub. no. SM 2893. €37.50.]
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