Tonalité : F-Dur - Hob. Xxii:1. Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Despite all of its folk-line simplicity of melody, Haydn's first mass contains a pious note that, just like its youthful verve, still was to hold fascination for him in his late years when, in 1805, he re-orchestrated his first work. The first version of the mass is considered to have been composed in 1749 or 1750. It was around the same time …

A student of Gabriel Fauré and Louis Verne at the Paris Conservatoire, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) owes her aura to an exceptional teaching career spanning nearly 75 years, during which she trained the most illustrious musicians, from Copland to Glass not to forget Bernstein or Gardiner. In the past few years, her creative work, long considered negligible, has finally been escaping from oblivion t…

Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Great art in small forms ? Bruckner's smaller sacred works reveal a more personal side to the master symphonist and creator of large-scale orchestral masses. Throughout his life, Bruckner?s deep faith and dedication to the Catholic liturgy inspired him to write church music in smaller forms suitable for performance at Sunday services or in sacred concerts. The long phrases and …

Arrangement: Harper. Par PORTER COLE. The musical De-Lovely, celebrated the songs of Cole Porter and these songs have now been skilfully crafted into this show-stopping medley for brass band by Philip Harper. With melodies that include the delightful Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) and the suave Begin the Beguine, this concert piece is full of swing, swagger, and the heart-warming nostalgia of th…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. A spectacular dive via an extended chromatic scale immediately submerges us in a charged and somewhat archaic-feeling atmosphere. Trumpets, horns and trombones resound in rhythmic patterns, buttressed by restless motifs in the percussion. A second theme, in the woodwinds, begins much calmer but is quickly pushed aside by that same brass offensive. This introduction is the mu…

Das Liederspiel. Par HUMPERDINCK ENGELBERT. When Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel was premiered on 23 December 1893 in Weimar conducted by Richard Strauss, the work could look back on an extensive history of origin. Humperdinck’s younger sister Adelheid Wette (born in 1858) had displayed a great interest in literature in her youth and written a variety of poems for specia…

'Pinwheels' is a musical memory of youth, and the joys of playing with toys such as a pinwheel. This piece seeks to replicate the simplicity and wonder of that time in toy-making history. (3:20) / Concert Band

The Best of Contemporary Jewish Rock and Pop. By Various. Transcontinental Music Folios. Jewish. Softcover Audio Online. 56 pages. Transcontinental Music Publications #994030. Published by Transcontinental Music Publications