The Complete Wedding Music Planner is a comprehensive guide to selecting and performing the music and choosing readings that will make your wedding day extra special. Planning your wedding is an enjoyable but challenging task. Just as important as the practical elements is choosing the music and readings that will be at the emotional heart of your big day. Selecting the perfect music in the best a…

Par SCHWARZ OTTO M.. Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge tidal waves and fire storms wiped out all life. This is the year 2067 according to the Christian calendar. A collision has just taken place in the asteroid belt between Mar…

Par SWERTS PIET. ‘Martenizza’ is the Bulgarian word for the month March. This work describes an old custom in Bulgaria introduced to the composer was through Ivo Stoykov, a Bulgarian acquaintance. In accordance with tradition good friends give each other a number of white and red pennants on the 1st of March. When a stork has been spotted for the first time in March, the pennants are hung in a tre…

Par BERNOTAS CHRIS. Lion Pride is an imaginative overture by Chris M. Bernotas and is full of majesty and pride. Beginning with a strong and dramatic statement that gives way to a bright melody, the pride of the lion shines through. A stately section represents the power of the mighty lion before returning with the spirited and exciting theme, then coming to a rhythmic and energetic conclusion. (3…

Dominicusmesse. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Mozarts 'Dominikusmesse' wurde zur Primiz Cajetan Hagenauers, des späteren Paters Dominicus, 1769 in Salzburg geschrieben. Dem Typus nach handelt es sich um eine 'feierliche Messe' mit großer, auch Blechbläser heranziehende Besetzung, wie man sie zu kirchlichen Hochfesten und anderen besonders repräsentativen geistlichen Anlässen zelebrierte. Mozart bet…

The Three Peaks - Die 3 Zinnen. Par DOSS THOMAS. The Three Peaks (Italian: Tre Cime di Lavaredo) are a prominent massif in the Dolomites on the border between the Italian provinces of Belluno in the south and South Tyrol in the north. The imposing rock formations formed over 200 million years ago and represent one of the most recognizable landmarks of the Dolomites and South Tyrol (I). Due to thei…

Par ADOLPHE BRUCE. This work was commissioned by violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv to celebrate and commemorate the life of her namesake, Solomiya Krushelnytska. A Ukranian soprano, Krushelnyts (1872-1952) left home at the age of 21 to study voice in Italy, where she became a very successful opera performer and close friends with Puccini. She is often credited with saving Madama Butterfly from obscurity …

Dominicusmesse. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Mozarts 'Dominikusmesse' wurde zur Primiz Cajetan Hagenauers, des späteren Paters Dominicus, 1769 in Salzburg geschrieben. Dem Typus nach handelt es sich um eine 'feierliche Messe' mit großer, auch Blechbläser heranziehende Besetzung, wie man sie zu kirchlichen Hochfesten und anderen besonders repräsentativen geistlichen Anlässen zelebrierte. Mozart bet…

A Comic Opera. Par BICKERSTAFF ISAAC (Arr. TOMS EDWARD). 'Love in a Village' was first performed on 8 December 1762 at the Covent Garden Theatre (London). It was to become one of the most popular British musical stage works of the century, and by 1791 it had also gained international acclaim. The question of why this pastiche comic opera was able to develop this special attraction can be described…

Par AHO KALEVI. Lasting 27 minutes, Kalevi Aho’s String quartet no. 4 (2021) is in four movements. The first, Nocturne, begins with a hazily muted melody dominated by the interval of a minor third on the second violin. Though the first movement begins in nocturnal mood, there is also some more forceful music around the middle. The second movement, Allegro capriccioso, is quick with quirky rhythms.…