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Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted an exquisite anthology of Christmas arrangements for solo voice, including traditional carols, art songs, masterworks, and spirituals. Reflecting the arranger's mastery of vocal accompaniment, the piano partners with the voice in true art song style. Available in medium high and medium low voicings, this collection also features accompaniment and full-performance recordings with Mark Hayes at the piano. Titles: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Away in a Manger * Sing Joy! * Midnight Noel * Gesu Bambino * Silent Night * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * O Holy Night * The Coventry, Carol * Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child.

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Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted this superb collection for vocal soloist with piano accompaniment. Wonderful for concerts, contests and recitals, ideal for worship throughout the year, weddings and funerals. Titles: On Eagle's Wings * Bright and Beautiful (A Children's Suite: Praise Him, All Ye Little Children, All Things Bright and Beautiful and Jesus Loves Me) * Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated * Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing * Make Me a Channel of Your Peace * Lord of the Dance * Safe Within Your Arms * Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus) * Marchin' On Up (Marching to Zion) * Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted this superb collection for vocal soloist with piano accompaniment. Wonderful for concerts, contests and recitals, ideal for worship throughout the year, weddings and funerals. Titles: On Eagle's Wings * Bright and Beautiful (A Children's Suite: Praise Him, All Ye Little Children, All Things Bright and Beautiful and Jesus Loves Me) * Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated * Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing * Make Me a Channel of Your Peace * Lord of the Dance * Safe Within Your Arms * Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus) * Marchin' On Up (Marching to Zion) * Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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Mark has once again contributed his substantial talent to create a highly useful collection for concert, contests, recitals, and worship. Titles: Over the Rainbow * Grace * Simple Gifts * Bridge over Troubled Water * Let There Be Peace on Earth * How High Can I Fly * You Raise Me Up * The Blessing * The Prayer * The Impossible Dream.

Mark Hayes is renowned for his mastery of the contemporary praise idiom. In this extraordinary addition to his vocal solo series, he has transformed seven of the most popular contemporary praise songs into vocal solos with supportive keyboard accompaniments, worthy of worship and concert hall. Available in both medium high and medium low voicings. As an added bonus, this collection boasts fully orchestrated recordings on both its accompaniment and listening CDs. Instrumental parts are also available in select keys. Titles: On Eagle's Wings (Joncas) * God Will Make a Way (Moen) * Above All (LeBlanc, Baloche) * Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (Temple) * Shout to the Lord (Zschech) * One Bread, One Body (Foley) * Shine, Jesus, Shine (Kendrick).

English.

Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted an exquisite anthology of Christmas arrangements for solo voice, including traditional carols, art songs, masterworks, and spirituals. Reflecting the arranger's mastery of vocal accompaniment, the piano partners with the voice in true art song style. Available in medium high and medium low voicings, this collection also features accompaniment and full-performance recordings with Mark Hayes at the piano. Titles: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Away in a Manger * Sing Joy! * Midnight Noel * Gesu Bambino * Silent Night * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * O Holy Night * The Coventry, Carol * Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child.

Fifty top-selling settings by Various Writers

This collection of 50 vocal solos includes top-selling settings from, Joel Raney, Lloyd Larson, Mark Hayes, Mary McDonald, Jack Schrader, Natalie Sleeth, Larry Shackley, Jay Althouse, Hal Hopson and Jane Holstein. This collection of 50 vocal solos includes top-selling settings from, Joel Raney, Lloyd Larson, Mark Hayes, Mary McDonald, Jack Schrader, Natalie Sleeth, Larry Shackley, Jay Althouse, Hal Hopson and Jane Holstein.

Sounds like: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Liz Story's "The Gift", George Winston's "December", early Windham Hill solo piano artists, and "A Winter's Solstice" compilations.


Transcribed by: David Shenton ( https://www.shentonmusic.com/ ) verbatim to the sound recording

Contents:
1. Bring A Torch (Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella)
2. Children Go Where I Send Thee / The Holly & The Ivy
3. Star Of Wonder (We Three Kings of Orient Are)
4. Silent (Silent Night, Holy Night)
5. Midnight (It Came Upon the Midnight Clear)
6. What Child Is This?
7. Greensleeves (homage to Liz Story)
8. Three Ships (I Saw Three Ships, Come Sailing In)
9. The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla, Lullay)
10. Sing We Now Of Christmas (Noël Nouvelet)
11. Carol Of The Bells

Album & Songbook review by: Kathy Parsons (MainlyPiano.com):

I have discovered a real wealth of great solo piano Christmas CDs this year! Isadar?s In Search For the Meaning of Christmas definitely falls into this category! Thoughtful, introspective, and a bit moody, Isadar?s arrangements are true to the carols (with some small melody changes in ?Bring a Torch? and ?Carol of the Bells? that bother me just a little) and still seem very personal. ?Bring a Torch?, ?The Holly and the Ivy?, and ?I Saw Three Ships? are given a lighthearted, joyful treatment. ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)?, ?What Child Is This??, ?The Coventry Carol?, and ?Sing We Now of Christmas? are all minor, somber, reverent pieces, and all four are given loving arrangements that keep the dark, mysterious nature of the songs and reflect Isadar?s own sensibilities. ?Carol of the Bells? and Isadar's take on Liz Story?s arrangement of ?Greensleeves? are energetic without losing all abandon. ?Silent Night? and ?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear? present us with a very cold, deep solitude - both feel like late night with moonlight reflecting off the snow. Both are moody, but very beautifully so. George Winston?s ?December? is one of my all-time favorite holiday albums, and I feel In Search For the Meaning of Christmas holds up exceptionally well next to it. This is an excellent collection of Christmas music, and I highly recommend it!

In Search For the Meaning of Christmas is the companion songbook to Isadar?s 1999 solo piano release by the same name. Meticulously transcribed note-for-note by David Shenton of New York Music Publishing, the music is faithful to the recording in every way (except for the pianist - YOU!). The scores are clear, concise, and easy to read, and also include chord indications for improvisation or the use of instruments other than or in addition to the piano. Isadar?s arrangements cover a whole range of emotions, from very dark and somber to joyful and buoyant. All of the pieces from the CD are here, including Isadar?s homage to Liz Story and her beautiful version of ?Greensleeves.? My personal favorites of the eleven songs in this book are the bright and cheerful ?Bring A Torch,? ?What Child Is This??, ?Greensleeves,? the darkly gorgeous ?The Coventry Carol,? and ?Sing We Now of Christmas.? Other titles that I really like are ?Children Go Where I Send Thee/The Holly and the Ivy,? ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)," ?Carol of the Bells,? and the effervescent ?Three Ships.? ?Silent? (Silent Night) and ?Midnight? (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear) are a bit too dark for my own holiday tastes, but are interesting and very personal arrangements. This book will make a great addition to your holiday sheet music collection and is available from isadar.com and amazon.com.

Isadar is an artist on both Enlightened Piano Radio & Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, the latter featuring some of today's biggest names in solo piano music, including Ludovico Einaudi, David Nevue, Brian Crain, Kevin Kern, Robin Spielberg, Michele McLaughlin, Philip Wesley and over 300 more...

Also available as sheet music in physical songbooks, digital downloads, as well as software for Yamaha Disklavier player-pianos.

For more information, visit his website at: http://www.isadar.com