Par WEBERN ANTON. Composer and choir master Clytus Gottwald comments on his transcription of Anton Webern’s Im Sommerwind (1904) as follows: “First of all I had to eliminate all those parts of the source material that had strictly instrumental designs, reducing the work – to quote Wolfgang Rihm – to its singable remnant. What was so surprising, however, was that such a reduction did not lead to a …

Les épouses des militaires sont le choeur formé par une source d'inspiration les épouses et les partenaires de soldats britanniques servant en Afghanistan. Créé par Gareth Malone dans le cadre de la série télévisée The Choir, leurs performances mobiles à l'appui de leurs proches sur la ligne de front ont touché les coeurs de millions, et leur premier single Wherever You Are, écrite pour le choeur …

John Casken, qui célèbre son 60e anniversaire en 2009, la valeur de Christina Rossetti de la mi-hiver sombre - un poème popularisé par le paramétrage de Gustav Holt du même nom - Alwinton et Holystone Church Choir près d'où le compositeur vit à Northumberland. Un carol traditionnel basé sur la Nativité, il peint une image vivante de la froideur de l'hiver et est idéal pour les chorales désireux de…

Stringsets. Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Benjamin Britten's last completed composition, Welcome Ode was originally written for school choir and orchestra. The three movements - Jig, Roundel and Canon, here transcribed for strings (score and parts), form the Welcome Suite which ensembles familiar with Britten's earlier Simple Symphony will find equally challenging and rewarding./ Répertoire / Cordes

Par SMITH PAUL. Written for SATB choir and piano, with optional audience participation, Pas de deux is a work consisting of five movements by Paul Smith, the co-founder of VOCES8 and author of The VOCES8 Method. The movements can be performed individually or as one complete work. Pas de deux is inspired by the dance duet found in ballet, and the music takes the duet element of the dance to create …

The grandeur of Ralph Waldo Emerson's skyborn music text creates a canvas for Dan Forrest's magnificent sonorities in this superb selection for choir and soloist with piano or optional strings. Breathtaking in its beauty and imagery! / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Composed in 1748, Handel's oratorio on the wise and righteous King Solomon is one of the most lavish works he created in this genre.He attached special importance to the choir: rarely does Handel's music have such extended choral numbers, ranging from homophonic settings to choruses of jubilation in eight contrapuntal parts.This vocal score is based on the 'Halle Handel Edition? volume BA 10709.- …

Par LADMIRAULT PAUL. Composer Paul Ladmirault 's work Messe Brève, for SATB Choir. Having studied under Gabriel Faure, child prodigy Paul Ladmirault 's glorious composition Messe Br ève is a joy to sing and listen to. / Musique religieuse / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes