New Release Books by John Corigliano

"The Red Violin Chaconne was commissioned by Sony Classical, The San Francisco Symphony, The Boston Symphony and Joshua Bell, the first performance was given November 26, 1997 by The San Francisco Symphony, Robert Spano, conductor, Joshua Bell, Violin"--T.p.

(Vocal Solo). Text by Mark Adamo. Pulp fiction meets contemporary art song in this witty new vocal work from the composer of The Ghosts of Versailles.

(String). This string quartet was inspired by a photo of Corigliano's father playing a violin and his uncle playing the guitar. It was commissioned by the Elements String Quartet and premiered in November 2003 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.

(Vocal Collection). This witty piece, commissioned by the New York Festival of Song, has a text by Mark Adamo about a woman who has an obsession with music on her iPod.

(Vocal). Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan was a commission by The Carnegie Hall Corporation for Sylvia McNair and was premiered at her Carnegie Hall recital given March 15, 2002 with Martin Katz at the piano. Corigliano, who had never encountered Dylan's own musical settings of the chosen poems, has given us new musical settings of icons of American folk music from the 1960s.

The text consists of the words I love you. The four singers seem to be involved in various romances which are pointed out by the stress placed on one of the three words. Duration ca. 4 minutes.

(String Solo). The Red Violin Caprices (duration: ca. 10 min.) are derived from John Corigliano's music for The Red Violin , which received the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Score. The Caprices were composed especially for Joshua Bell. "These Caprices, composed in conjunction with the score for Francois Girard's film The Red Violin , take a spacious, troubadour-inspired theme and vary it both linearly and stylistically. These variations intentionally evoke Baroque, Gypsy, and arch-Romantic idioms as they examine the same materials (a dark, seven-chord chaconne as well as that principal theme) from differing aural viewpoints. The Caprices were created and ordered to reflect the structure of the film, in which Bussotti, a fictional 18th-century violin maker, crafts his greatest violin for his soon-to-be-born son. When tragedy claims wife and child, the grief-stricken Bussotti, in a gesture both ardent and macabre, infuses the blood of his beloved into the varnish of the instrument. Their fates thus joined, the violin travels across three centuries through Vienna, London, Shanghai and Montreal, passing through the hands of a doomed child prodigy, a flamboyant virtuoso, a haunted Maoist commissar, and at last a willful Canadian expert, whose own plans for the violin finally complete the circle of parent and child united in art." John Corigliano

(String). Based on themes from The Ghosts of Versialles . Thoroughout the work Phantasmagoria, the ghost floats in and out, binding the 3 sections of the piece together: 1. The world of eternity * 2. The world of the Stage * 3. The world of historic reality.

(Vocal). From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles . The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro . Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

(Vocal). From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles . The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro . Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

(Vocal). From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles . The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro . Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of•Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.

Pop/Rock/R&B Vocal Solos

(Vocal). From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles . The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro . Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

With Baritone solo. Text by Dylan Thomas.

For flute and orchestra (Piano Reduction). A musical interpretation of the “Pied Piper” legend first performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with James Galway, soloist, under the direction of Myung-Whun Ching in February 1982. Includes sugge

(Vocal). Recorded on RCA 60395-2 RG by Robert White, Tenor, and Ransom Wilson, Flute. Contents: The Salley Gardens * The Foggy Dew * She Moved Through the Fair. Duration: ca. 10 minutes.