The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others. Carefully selected by Janet Way,…

for alto voice and string trio. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Incipit Vita Nova (A new life is beginning) was written for male alto and string trio and sets those short phrases that appear in Latin rather than Italian in Dante's La Vita Nuova (New Life). It was composed in February 1989 to celebrate the birth of Vita, the first child of my friends Erica and Robert Hewison. I had decided to write the piece lon…

Partitura + C.C. In Inglese - Serie I - Vol.7. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Casa Ricordi, in joint publication with The University of Chicago Press, has published the works of Giuseppe Verdi in critical edition, making use of all the available sources - from autographs to sketches, from early manuscript copies to the variouseditions produced during Verdi´s lifetime - and contemporary orchestral parts. Full…

The composer Rudolf Kelterborn about his work: 'I call the ten compositions for baritone and piano 'DUOS' because the voice and instrument parts are treated musically with absolute equality and indeed often go their own independent ways. Two duos ('Alles Gold' and 'Gegenlicht in den Bergen') come from the 'Ensemble-Book I' for baritone and 14 instruments with texts by Erika Burkart (1990). The 10 …

St. Michael. Par BOURGEOIS LOUIS. The French composer Louis Bourgeois lived from c. 1510 to 1560. Bourgeois was cantor in Geneva and, commissioned by John Calvin, he composed melodies for metrical (rhyming) versions of the psalms. After completing about a hundred one-part psalms, he made some four-part arrangements, which were denounced and even resulted in his imprisonment for a day. Later, Bourg…

St. Michael. Par BOURGEOIS LOUIS. The French composer Louis Bourgeois lived from c. 1510 to 1560. Bourgeois was cantor in Geneva and, commissioned by John Calvin, he composed melodies for metrical (rhyming) versions of the psalms. After completing about a hundred one-part psalms, he made some four-part arrangements, which were denounced and even resulted in his imprisonment for a day. Later, Bourg…

Les sept Fanfares Vocal est une oeuvre de cappella écrite spécialement pour choeur de la cathédrale des filles de renommée Christ Church à Dublin, en Irlande, adaptées à leur timbre plus inhabituels et les talents. La musique est également conçue pour satisfaire les attributs acoustiques du célèbre crypte de la cathédrale, la crypte cathédrale plus importante en Europe. / 5 Parties Voix Aigues