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Don Carlo (1886 Version in 5 or 4 Acts)
By Giuseppe Verdi
£1,150.0036-A461202
This grand opera about love stymied by the political intrigue of Spain during the Inquisition, is well-known for the many versions that have been created to accommodate the work's length. Originally written as a five-act opera with ballet at its French premiere in 1866, the 1867 Italian premiere in London started the trend of making cuts, authorized or not, from the performance, including the omission of both the entire first act and the ballet. Further performances continued to make alterations to shorten the length until Verdi himself decided to address the matter, creating two versions: the 1883 Milan version that omitted Act I and the ballet while also making other smaller cuts, and the 1886 Modena version, which retained Act I, though the ballet was still removed. The four-act Milan version remained the preferred path for performance until a notable 1958 staging of the 1886 five-act Modena version. Both the Milan and Modena versions have grown in popularity since the 1950s, becoming a stardard part of the opera repertoire. This Kalmus edition is the 1886, five-act Modena version, which also notates the optional omission of Act I, offering opera companies flexibility in which version they would prefer to perform. Learn More -
Un Ballo in Maschera
By Giuseppe Verdi
£800.0036-A234602
Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué about the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was shot while attending a masked ball, Verdi's version ran afoul of numerous censorship regulations in Naples, Rome, and France. As a result, the opera underwent a series of significant transformations and title changes, among which include the eventual change in setting from Stockholm, Sweden to Boston, Massachusetts during the colonial era. Taking over two years from commission to production, it became one of the most frustrating experiences of Verdi's career. Learn More -
Symphony No. 6 in A minor: Tragic (2nd version)
By Gustav Mahler
£720.0036-A240102
"Symphony No. 6 in A minor" by Gustav Mahler was composed between 1903 and 1904 (rev. 1906; scoring repeatedly revised). The work’s first performance was conducted by Mahler in Essen in 1906. The tragic ending has been seen as unexpected, since the symphony was composed at what was apparently a happy time in Mahler’s life. His second daughter was born during the course of the work’s composition. As Mahler stated in a letter to his biographer, “My Sixth will propound riddles the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and truly digested my first five symphonies.” Learn More -
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
By Sergei Rachmaninoff, ed./ arr. Clinton Nieweg/ Christopher Morgan
£470.0036-A190102
The premiere of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 was conducted by the composer himself in Saint Petersburg on February 8, 1908. The score is dedicated to Sergei Taneyev, a Russian composer, teacher, theorist, author, and pupil of Tchaikovsky. Alongside his Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, this work remains one of the composer's best-known compositions. Learn More -
Nutcracker Ballet (complete reduced orchestration)
By Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky / arr. R. Mark Rogers
£430.0036-A927590
The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world's most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 reduced orchestration of the ballet with all newly engraved parts, edited and revised by Mark Rogers. With this publication, smaller ballet companies and touring groups finally have access to an affordable, quality edition of this celebrated masterpiece. Learn More -
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
By Anton Bruckner / arr. Robert Maria Haas
£470.0036-A136402
Performed only three times during Anton Bruckner’s (1824-1896) lifetime, the immense Symphony No. 8, considered the composer’s most awesome and sweeping symphony, took over five years to write and revise. Symphony No. 8 premiered on December 18th, 1892, by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Hans Richter, and was met with mixed criticism. Eduard Hanslick described the symphony as “interesting in detail, but strange as a whole, indeed repellent,” while Hugo Wolf wrote that the symphony was “the work of a giant,” and that it “surpasses the other symphonies of the master in intellectual scope, awesomeness, and greatness.” Instrumentation: 3.3.3.3(3d.CBBsn): 8(5-8dWagnerTbas).3.3(3BTbn).1: Timp.Perc(2): Hp: Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set). Learn More -
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Pictures at an Exhibition (complete)
By Modest Mussorgsky / arr. Alfred Reed, Carl Simpson
£430.0036-M910102
While the original piano version of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION remained unpublished at the time of Mussorgsky's death, the work was orchestrated by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov and published in 1886, although it remained largely obscure until Maurice Ravel's (based on the Rimsky-Korsakov) brilliant orchestration in the 1920s pushed the work into its current established and popular place in the repertoire. This present orchestration for band by Carl Simpson (edited by Alfred Reed) is entirely new and primarily based on the autograph manuscript. Learn More -
La Mer (1909 version)
By Claude Debussy / arr. Clinton F. Nieweg, Lawrence N. Halverson
£345.0036-A139302
La Mer was the second of Debussy's three orchestral works in three sections. Although the composition of La Mer took him more than a year and a half, this was unusually quick progress by his standards. La Mer was premiered in Paris in October 1905 and was initially not well received. However, the work was performed in the US in 1907 and in Britain in 1908, and after its second performance in Paris, in 1908, it quickly became one of Debussy's most admired and frequently performed orchestral works. This edition by Clinton F. Nieweg and Lawrence N. Halverson is based on the second published Durand edition of 1909 which included the composer's revisions. Learn More -
The Magic Toy Shop (La Boutique Fantasque, complete ballet)
By Gioachino Rossini / arr. Ottorino Respighi, Nancy Bradburd
£347.0036-A806502
The music for The Magic Toy Shop, a one act ballet about a love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toy shop, is based on piano pieces that were a part of Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse. Respighi introduced Rossini's score to the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes premiered the ballet in London on June, 5, 1919 to an eagerly awaiting audience. Instrumentation in set: 2+Picc.2+EH.2.2: 4.3.3.1: Timp.Perc(5): Cel.Hp: Str(4.4.3.3.3). Learn More
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