Arr. James Curnow. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel's masterpiece 'The Messiah' is perfect for holiday concerts, and the chorus For Unto Us A Child Is Born is one of the best known. James Curnow's careful arrangement will challenge young players at the Easy level, but his attention to detail assures you that the results will be wonderful! A dignified and substantial choice for your concert! / N…

Oratorio in three acts. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel composed Samson directly after completing the 'Messiah'. After its premiere in 1743 in the Covent Garden Theatre in London, the work rapidly became one of the composer's most successful oratorios alongside 'Esther' and 'Judas Maccabaeus'. This probably had as much to do with the popular Old Testament story of the libretto as with Handel's…

from Messiah. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. En 1741, Haendel compose, en vingt-trois jours seulement, son plus célèbre oratorio, le Messie. Après avoir retravaillé et perfectionné l’orchestration de son oeuvre durant plusieurs mois, le Messie est donné en création mondiale sous les acclamations du public. L’ Alléluia est l’un des plus célèbres passages de l’oratorio. La superbe transcription de Phi…

21st Century Malaysian Piano Works. Malaysia's very first anthology of piano compositions truly describes the growing pool of Malaysian piano compositions written over the past decade. This pioneer collection of original works spans composers from different backgrounds and ages, from various parts of the country from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu in the east to Penang in the north. This musical su…

Par SAINZ DE LA MAZA EDUARDO. Platero Y Yo (Platero and I) is a suite of eight short works inspired by a set of poems that Nobel Prize-winning author Juan Ramón Jiménez. wrote about a donkey, and his home region of Andalusia. The words of the poems are to be read over theperformance of the witty, modern Andalusian-inspired music. It is a charming work that has performed and recorded many times. Co…

Commissioned for the 2014 Saint Angela Children and Youth Choir Festival in Bandung, Indonesia, with the theme of 'Diversity in Harmony.? In that spirit, composer Jim Papoulis also celebrates the language of Indonesia by using Bahasa, the native language of that country. He weaves the beauty and lyricism of the language along with the harmony and rhythm of both American and Indonesian cultures to …

Par STEENHUYSE-VANDEVELDE CHRISTA. Christa Steenhuyse-Vandevelde has been teaching for over 30 years with unbridled enthusiasm and unparalleled creativity. Throughout her career she inspired more than a thousand piano students, which she brought into contact with masters from the past and the present. Christa's own compositions have a high romantic style with a flowing melody and a beautiful harmo…

Commandé par la Camerata vocale Limbourg, cette pièce utilise un texte sacré de 'Ecclésiaste' dans la version de la Bible de Zurich de 1931. Le texte est composé de quatre parties différentes et mis en musique avec différents moyens musicales. Le premier mouvement, le vent a été composé pour deux choeurs de mâle-voix de trois parties. La musique suit de près la déclamation naturelle du texte, souv…

Par PURCELL HENRY. Henry Purcell (1659-1695) held numerous appointments at the Royal court and Westminster Abbey, and is considered by many to be the greatest ever English-born composer. His prolific work covered all fields: orchestral, ecclesiastical, operatic, theatrical, incidental, and chamber music were all enriched by his output. Fantazias And In Nomines is a collection of his 15 Fantasies a…

Par JANACEK LEOS. Leos Janacek, almost seventy years old, characterised the wind sextet he had just finished as 'a kind of memory of youth' in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. The suite Youth was written in the summer of 1924, prompted by the composer's need to take stock on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Janacek also heard the Parisian ensemble Societe moderne des instruments a vent several time…