This blog is mainly about contemporary opera (operas composed after 1970), but also about classical music. Ce blog est consacré principalement à l'actualité de l'opéra contemporain depuis 1970, mais aussi à la musique / musicologie en général, de manière plus anecdotique.
Wednesday 13 November 2019
New scores in my collection
I have recently acquired several scores of contemporary operas :
- Philippe Boesmans : Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2009, 422 p.
Full score. 2 volumes.
It contains : character list and orchestration (no detailed percussion).
- Jonathan Dove : Flight, London : Edition Peters, 1998, 188 + 160 + 169 p.
Full score. 3 volumes.
It contains :
- instrumentation with detailed percussion section ;
- characters and cast of the first performance.
- Jonathan Dove : Kwasi & Kwame, London : Edition Peters, 2005, 356 p.
Full score.
It contains : cast with tessituras and instrumentation with detailed percussion section.
- Wolfgang Rihm : Die Hamletmaschine, Vienna : Universal Edition, 1987, 244 p.
Full facsimile score. It contains :
- complete text by Heiner Müller ;
- complete cast and detailed orchestral setting with complete percussion section.
- Wolfgang Rihm : Jakob Lenz, Vienna : Universal Edition, 2016, 151 p.
Full score. It contains :
- cast (characters with tessituras) ;
- orchestral setting, with detailed percussion ;
- duration.
- Ming Tsao : Die Geisterinsel, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2011, 295 p.
Full score. It contains :
- table of contents ;
- complete instrumentation with detailed percussion section ;
- performance notes.
- Erkki-Sven Tüüt : Wallenberg, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2000, 407 p.
Full score. It contains :
- orchestration with detailed percussion section ;
- characters with pages of entrance ;
- table of contents.
- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, Leipzig : Edition Peters, 2011, 264 + 313 p.
Full score. 2 volumes. It contains :
- complete orchestra setting with detailed percussion section ;
- complete cast with tessituras ;
- table of contents.
I now have 106 scores of contemporary operas. I have catalogued all my scores on Librarything.
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