SKU: BT.EMBZ12401A

English-German.

The volume includes the famous Weinen, Klagen variations, based on Bach's similarly-titled cantata and motifs from the Crucifixus of his B minor Mass a paraphrase of Gounod's Hymne a Ste Cécile, appearing here for the first time in print, A la Chapelle Sixtine, based on Allegri's Miserere and Mozart's Ave verum Corpus (the part based on a chorus from the Ave verum Corpus can also be performed separately), the Rapsodie espagnole, a fantasia on themes from the incidental music to Beethoven's Die Ruinen von Athen, Liszt's transcription of the Pilgrims' Chorus from Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser, and Les adieux. Reverie sur un motif de l'opéra Roméo et Juliette. The volume isavailable linen-bound (Z.12401A, with critical notes) and also in a cheaper, hard paperbound version that is adequate for practical purposes.

SKU: MN.CH-1296

UPC: 765844005764.

Ave Maria was composed for the University of Kansas Choirs, and dedicated with appreciation to Simon Carrington (Kings Singers). It was premiered by the Oread Consort at Edington Priori Church in Wiltshire, England in May of 1997. The Gregg Smith Singers brought new life to this work at the 2000 Adirondack Festival of American Music in Saranac Lake, and followed with a recording on the Living Artist series. This piece was inspired by Gyorgy Ligeti's setting of Lux Aeterna (1966), as well as by Giuseppe Verdi's Ave Maria, the scala enigmatica armonizzata a Quattro voci (1898). It is shaped by a series of breath-like harmonic swells leading to climactic homophonic statements of the text, with strident voice pairings yearning for resolution. New York writer Watson Bosler describes the work as an iridescent wash of color as an intricate web of interrelated melodic and rhythmic themesThis Ave hymns not the sugar-water Virgin of Gounod or Scott, but rather the powerful Goddess Yeats depicts: The Roman Empire stood appalled:/ It dropped the reins of peace and war/ When that fierce virgin and her Star/ Out of the fabulous darkness called.