Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER (Arr.). Freedom Is Coming is an incredibly infectious celebration of hope and freedom from oppression and is coupled here with Hamba Vangeli (‘Spread the new word’) for Soprano, Alto and combined men's voices along with a piano accompaniment. Pay attention to the dynamics – there are lots of opportunities for contrasts and a gradual build-up of texture, as well as chances …

A Dorset Song. Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. This pastoral poem, written by William Barnes who was born in 1801 in Dorset, was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams to make a rich, pleasing and thoughtful Dorset Folk song. This arrangement by Alec Rowley is for two treble voices. / Musique traditionnelle / Feuillet / Choeur de Femmes (SS) et Piano

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style, reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melody, tonality and texture. His collection of Shakespeare Songs feature settings of verse from across the full range of the Bard's plays, and have proved to be great critical successes still widely perf…

Fassung für Orchester. Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Composed between the spring of 1906 and July of the same year, the Chamber Symphony op. 9 for 15 solo instruments represents a point of culmination in Schoenberg's artistic development, the consequences of which not even the composer himself initially recognised.' Ulrich Krämer 'The 1914 version is not chamber music - however its sound is simply less …

Media Type : Book Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Classic Series : Editiones Classicae Number of pages : 160 The guitar studies of Fernando Sor (1778-1839) have long been valued highly among the indispensable elements of a guitarist's training. A number of prominent virtuosi attribute a large portion of their development to the diligent study of these works. Sor's studies address an impr…

All My Hope On God Is Founded scored for unison voices and descant set to words by Robert Bridges. Hymn tune named Michael after his son. / Chant Et Piano

Voices (8)/ Recueil / 8 Voix (SATB et SATB)

Par GILL JOANNA. This work is a reflective setting of a popular blessing used regularly in both church services and within choral concerts. Scored for unaccompanied mixed choir, the four parts are often divided to create an eight-part texture. The main melodic interest is carried in the soprano line over a supporting line of six parts provided by the lower voices. Within this short setting a var…

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. During his summer vacation in 1891 Brahms composed six vocal quartets which would appear in print later that autumn. This set, to become Brahms’s opus 112, clearly falls into two groups. The first two in the melancholic tone of the poems Sehnsucht (Longing) and Nächtens (At Night) by Franz Kugler come upon four Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Lieder) bursting with vitality and power. Th…

Par SCHLEE THOMAS DANIEL. For composer Thomas Daniel Schlee, the 'intimate sound possibilities of the string quartet” have the potential 'to formulate an, albeit 'only' individual, solution to the somewhat forlorn condition of new art music within society that we are unfortunately experiencing today.” Schlee's Fourth String Quartet opens with a pure C major sound, out of which he develops a harmo…