Choral-Orchestral Repertoire
A Conductor's Guide
Jonathan D Green author David W Oertel author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:5th Dec '19
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor’s Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green’s earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular works for large and small ensembles, and numerous settings of liturgical and biblical texts for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations.
Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the composer, approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, available editions, and locations of manuscript materials, as well as descriptive commentary, a discography, and a bibliography. Unique to this edition are practitioner’s evaluations of the performance issues presented in each score. These include the range, tessitura, and nature of each solo role and a determination of the difficulty of the choral and orchestral portions of each composition. There is also a description of the specific challenges, staffing, and rehearsal expectations related to the performance of each work.
Choral-Orchestral Repertoire is an essential resource for conductors and students of conducting as they search for repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles.
Highly Recommended: Bringing together the contents of six of Green's previously published guides (dating from 1994 to 2014, many reviewed in these pages), this volume provides descriptions of works for chorus and orchestra from Bach onward. Intended to assist conductors with selecting repertoire for performance, the entries (which are arranged alphabetically by composer and then by work) offer brief biographical information on the composers, followed by detailed information on the works—including duration, sources of texts, performing forces required, editions, recommended recordings and further readings, and notes on performance issues. Based on Green's own score study, the last are the real value of the guide. Green describes technical issues (for both singers and instrumentalists) that will need to be addressed in rehearsal, and he provides an assessment of the overall difficulty level of the piece. * Choice Reviews *
At last, Jonathan Green's six invaluable books on works for chorus and orchestra are gathered together in a new omnibus edition! Green's careful research and perceptive insights into choral-orchestral works from Monteverdi to Penderecki are now in a single volume that earns a place on every conductor's shelf. -- David W. Daniels, author of Daniels' Orchestral Music
Encyclopedic in scope, this breathtaking achievement is an essential resource for conductors. It not only lists important works but also presents commentary which will help conductors decide programming. -- Harold Rosenbaum, founder, The New York Virtuoso Singers
ISBN: 9781442244665
Dimensions: 290mm x 231mm x 44mm
Weight: 1955g
746 pages
Combined volume