This new Opera was first performed in 1998 in Huddersfield by Opera North. Designed for the modern stage it utilises only a small cast and orchestra albeit one with a good variety of percussion! The libretto is adapted by thecomposer from the play ‘The Love of Don Pemperlin for Belisa in the Garden’ by Feredico Garcia Lorca translated into English by David Johnston. The plot revolves aroun…

Par LADMIRAULT PAUL. Le Charbonnier is a song for SATB a cappella by Paul Ladmirault. The song was written with a main theme, two variations and a coda, and features a total of 5 verses. The lyrics remind us of a time when coal sellers came to town to sell merchandise. To be sung a cappella, all in andantino, this song is very lyrical and has some polyphonic aspects and some merismas. Each verse c…

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall¬? at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship Bergen February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus. The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be played outside Norway. Black Dyke/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991…

A glossy souvenir edition featuring eighteen songs from the stage and screen smash hit Bye Bye Birdie with all songs arranged for Voice and Piano.The plot revolves around rock and roll superstar Conrad Birdie and the complications that arise when his agent stages a publicity stunt on The Ed Sullivan Show in which he will kiss one lucky girl from Sweet Apple Ohio before being drafted into the arm…

Inspired by Rothko canvases this 15 minute study starts by revolving around a high D acting as a line of centrifugal force from which microtones pull away. Gradually little interruptions and playful ripples begin to disturb the sustained notes until they grow into a frenetic rondo and end by building to a climax dominated by a similar high note. Various musical ideas are utilized throughout eff…

Stephen Albert's Tribute for Violin and Piano. Score and part. Duration: approx. 9 minutes.'Tribute revolves on a dual axis comprised of two lyrical themes that generate theother musical ideas appearing throughout this one movement work. The first theme is given to the Piano in the opening and the second theme is announced by the Violin on the heels of the opening Piano section. Both themes aredev…

Compositeur Notes: Green Leaf Prelude (Février 2004) Il s'agit d'une transcription d'un des morceaux des 'Cygnes Sauvages' notes ballet. 'Les cygnes sauvages' a été commandée par le Ballet australien chorégraphié par Meryl Tankard et créée en l'Opéra de Sydney en mai 2003. Dans cette pièce, plutôt minimaliste, le personnage principal, la princesse Elisa, regarde à travers un trou dans une feuille …

Hugo Wolf set a total of 53 songs by Eduard Mörike all in the year 1888. The composer wrote in a letter: 'Once you have heard this song it can only inspire one wish ? to die.' In the artistic-metaphysical milieu of the late 19th century this was regarded as the highest ideal especially for Hugo Wolf who believed in the body as a ?wretched piano case? from which the soul can only break free lik…

Patience or Bunthorne’s Bride is a satirical spoof on Aesthetic poets and their followers. It revolves around two rival poets Reginald Bunthorne and Archibald Grosvenor. Bunthorne lives in a castle with his family and enjoys adding up his receipts. Grosvenor on the other hand is an idyllic poet and 'true' aesthetic who despises money. Conflict arises when both try to woo the same woman wh…

Acte de Ballet. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Rameau Io RCT 45 (Vocal Score) In Rameau's operatic oeuvre, 'Io' is certainly the work shrouded in the most mystery: the acte de ballet has survived only in the form of a copy of the score and parts which was made by a collector from the generation after Rameau from the autograph that now is lost. Although the copy seems to have been used, presumably for …