The Novello Book Of Hymns is a collection of 50 favourite hymns, inspiringly and engagingly written for SATB Choirs. Edited by David Hill, all the arrangements in this book are designed to be singable by congregations without music, and can be used in any church or school service.As well as providing uplifting versions of hymns, these arrangements also work well as easy anthems, enabling church an…

String Quartet No. 4. Par BARRY GERALD. The title of Barry’s fourth string quartet refers to a Kafka story of the same name about a trapeze artist who is happy only when aloft. This is striking music, full of fragility, beauty, outbursts and to finish, an unexpected hymn sung by the quartet./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par MATTHEWS COLIN. Ten Pig Songs by Colin Matthews is a series of fun, engaging and theatrical songs that set Cope’s typically comical yet striking poems about the lives and characteristics of different breeds of pigs. The songs are arranged for unison and two-part children’s voices and piano and perfect for school and community groups. / Choral Music, Songbooks / Recueil / Choeur A Voix Egales,…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This work, in two movements, was written for the 50th anniversary of “Harmonie St. Cecilia” in Oudenburg, Belgium, and is dedicated to its conductor, Arne Wyntin. The first part is rather quiet and pastoral in character, and is written in a gently rocking 12/8 time. The tranquility of the area around the medieval town of Oudenburg, a rustic region not far from the North Sea,…

Bach composed his oratorio for the Feast of the Ascension in Leipzig in 1735. Though this work has the duration of a cantata, the choice of text places it among the oratorios. It combines the biblical account of the Ascension with chorales and free madrigal poems.As in other works which were composed during this same year (e.g. the 'Christmas Oratorio'), Bach reveals a special fondness for colourf…

A Musical Application of Rudiments to the Drumset. Par MORELLO JOE. Originally released in 1967, this Joe Morello classic is once again available. The precursor to his two most widely used instructional books ? Master Studies and Master Studies II ? this book covers: techniques such as right and left hand grips, playing position, striking the snare drum and hi-hat and more: beginning exercises: dr…

A modern sequel to the music of the Romantic era. The first movement hints at the chromatic of 'Tristan?- cantilena lines convey a mournful scene. It is succeeded by a brilliant scherzo with the cryptic title 'Erste fremde Szene? (First Foreign/Unknown Scene - one is invited to solve this riddle), while the third movement, with its singing quality, is related to the first. The final movement, a 'Z…

'It is, aside from two passages, one of Beethoven's easiest - but as far as the performance of individual passages and its whole spirit is concerned, requires every kind of care?, thus wrote a contemporary critic. And it is for this reason that Beethoven's Sonata op. 90 is extremely popular today, both with piano students and also with professional pianists. It provides enough challenges: for exam…

Marschlied. Par HUTTER / GUSTL GSTETTNER. Die Komposition Das Feuer brennt weiter war der Themenmarsch zur Jubiläumstournee 2006 „50 Jahre Ernst Mosch - Seine Musik lebt weiter “. Der Text von Ernst Hutter und Gustl Gstettner, dem langjährigen Texter von Ernst Mosch, bezieht sich auf die Egerländer Musikanten und deren enge Beziehung zu ihrem ehemaligen Leiter. Der zweite Leitsatz der Jubiläumstou…