Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. For Soprano and Orchestra. Andrew Clements says 'None of the four songs lasts more than a few minutes, yet they pack in an astonishing range of emotional and vocal nuance. . .with wonderfully lucid colours drawn from a vast ensemble - each song seems to define its sound world within a couple of bars, compressed into a phrase or a couple of chords. They are beautifully achieved …

Par VINE CARL. The popular seasonal music of the English Georgian parish church - often called gallery music - yielded a wonderfully rich harvest of hymns, carols and anthems. Drawn from a repertoire only recently rediscovered and recorded on the Hyperion label by the choir Psalmody and The Parley Instruments, these new editions offer a sparkling array of fresh, alternative Easter and passiontide …

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of double Chaconne, each part of which contains 26 chords based on specific permutations of fundamental notes and their harmonics. Each of the parts pass through alternating, harmonically contrasted planes…

Par GRIEG EDVARD. Of Grieg ’s three Violin sonatas, the great C-minor Sonata op. 45 is the best known today. And unjustly so, because the two early sonatas are captivating in their joy to play and their fresh, youthful tone. And what is more, they can also be played by advanced students due to their somewhat lesser technical demands. Written in 1867, the G-major Violin Sonata op. 13, palpably draw…

'La Mer?, which is an impressionistic work through and through, was composed between 1903-1905. Debussy however refined this work up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an arra…

Ursula Mamlok was born in Berlin in 1923, but was forced to emigrate via Ecuador to New York in 1939 because of her Jewish descent. In 2006 she returned to the city where she was born.Fünf Phantasiestücke, composed in 2012/13 for a small mixed ensemble consisting of oboe, violin, viola and violoncello, draws its appeal from the broad spectrum of emotions, feelings and states described musically in…

This authoritative, new edition of the world's most loved songs and arias draws on original manuscripts, historical first editions and recent research by prominent musicologists to meet a high standard of accuracy and authenticity. Includes fascinating background information about the arias and their composers as well as a singable rhymed translation, a readable prose translation and a literal tra…

First ever publication based on the autographOriginally written for violin and orchestra between 1873 and 1877, Dvorák's 'Romance? immediately followed his String Quartet in F minor (1873) and draws on the theme from its slow movement. He probably wrote the 'Romance? for his friend, the violin virtuoso Franti?ek Ondrícek, who later premiered Dvorák's Violin Concerto in 1883.Our edition is the firs…

Par BULLA STEPHEN. The descriptive piece draws its inspiration from the American west, the music first depicts a scene of wide open spaces and the quiet landscape of the painted desert. The second section is more animated in character. You will hear references to the cowboy era, complete with gunshots and the sound of the rodeo. / Niveau : 2 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par GOODALL HOWARD. The Lord is my shepherd is best known as the theme tune to the award-winning BBC TV series 'The Vicar of Dibley' which starred Dawn French. Goodall's setting of Psalm 23 is warm and melodious and has been, and will continue to be, popular with choirs everywhere. Alternative accompaniments for strings have been made available and complement the SATB version that can be found i…