Boccherini, Luigi. 9 Quintets for guitar, 2 violins, viola and violoncello (G 445-450, 451, 453) [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXII]

edited by Fulvia Morabito and Andrea Schiavina, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2019 [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXII], ISMN: 979-0-2153-2538-8, ISBN: 978-88-8109-509-4, BCE 8.
Of the 16 Quintets for guitar and string quartet composed by Luigi Boccherini only 9 survived: nn. …
Read More →Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation, Negotations, Reception

edited by Jonathan Kregor, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Speculum Musicae, 32), pp. XIV+ 490, ISBN 978-2-503-58346-4.
The history of program music stretches back centuries, but only in the nineteenth century did it enter into widespread use. Indeed, seminal compositions by Ludwig …
Read More →Locatelli, Pietro Antonio. Sonata in G Minor ‘Leufsta’ for Violin and Continuo

Critical Edition by Fulvia Morabito – Massimiliano Sala, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2018 (LOC 2), ISMN 979-0-2153-2539-5.
The “Leufsta” Sonata in G minor for violin and basso continuo by Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Bergamo, 1695 – Amsterdam, 1764) is produced by …
Read More →Music Criticism 1900-1950

edited by Jordi Ballester and German Gan Quesada, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 7), pp. xiv+526, ISBN 978-2-503-58072-2.
Boccherini, Luigi. 6 Sextets for Strings Op. 23 (G 454-459) [Opera Omnia – Vol. XIX]

edited by Fabrizio Ammetto and Christian Speck, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2018 [Opera Omnia – Vol. VI], ISMN: 979-0-2153-2537-1, ISBN: 978-88-8109-508-7, BCE 7.
The volume contains all sextets for two violins, violas and cellos composed by Boccherini according to current …
Read More →The Many Faces of Camille Saint-Saëns

edited by Michael Stegemann, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Speculum Musicae, 31), pp. XIV+ 406, ISBN 978-2-503-58070-8.
French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) is certainly one of the most fascinating and important figures in the music history of the 19th and early …
Read More →John Williams. Music for Films, Television, and the Concert Stage

edited by Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Contemporary Composers, 1), pp. xxiv+440, ISBN 978-2-503-58034-0.
Once mostly considered a commercial composer and a mere rewriter of previous composers’ styles, only recently – and quite belatedly – Williams’ music has begun to …
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