SKU: PE.EP72698A

ISBN 9790577010519. 210 x 297mm inches. English.

Commissioned by Making Music with funds from the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Foundation

First performance: 12th March 2016, Waltham Singers, conducted by Andrew Fardell, King Edward's Grammar School, Chelmsford.

Music runs through the story of Arion, which begins with a singing competition in Sicily. Arion wins the prize, and this puts his life in danger: his newfound wealth excites the Greed of the sailors who are supposed to be bringing him back to Corinth, and they threaten to kill him.  They allow Arion to sing one last song, and the power of his singing attracts dolphins to the ship.  At The End of his song, he jumps overboard, and one of the dolphins carries him to safety.  So Arion’s musical gift gets him into trouble, but it is also his salvation.  

The idea of being rescued by a music-loving dolphin is very appealing.  In Robert Graves’ account of the myth, the dolphin could not bear to be parted from Arion, and accompanied him back to court, where “it soon succumbed to a life of luxury.”  However, Herodotus says that, after his rescue and return to Corinth, Arion failed to return the dolphin to the sea, and it died there.  Apollo placed the dolphin among the stars, and next to it, Arion’s lyre, in recognition of his musical skill.  This is one of the mythical explanations of the origins of the constellations Delphinus and Lyra.

It seems natural to sing a story that has singing at its heart.  When I was asked by the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust to write a choral work for Making Music, something that would be within reach of many choirs, and involve children, this story struck me as ideal: the men of the chorus could be the bloodthirsty sailors, and the women could create an atmosphere of mystery for the arrival of the dolphins, represented by children’s voices.  There would be one solo voice: Arion, the marvellous singer.  Andrew Fardell, the conductor who was advisor to this commission, had suggested that I might use the same instrumentation as a popular arrangement of Orff’s Carmina Burana, a work that, as well as using children’s chorus, features a solo countertenor.  I thought the magical, otherworldly quality of this voice would help to convey the extraordinary effect Arion’s singing had on all who heard it. 

- Jonathan Dove

SKU: HL.48181881

UPC: 888680849115. 9.0x12.0x0.046 inches.

Yves de la Casinière: Berceuse (Oboe & Piano).

SKU: HL.14008415

UPC: 884088808242. 8.5x11.0x0.261 inches.

This work, written by Maxwell Davies in 1983 for chamber orchestra, was commissioned to celebrate the quartercentenary of Edinburgh University. The first performance was given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edward Harper in October 1983. Duration c. 29mins. This work was thought through in outline following a visit to the ruined pre-Reformation church of Hoy in Orkney, on a fine Spring afternoon after Maxwell Davies had played the harmonium for the tiny congregation in its large bleak Victorian replacement. The old church was surrounded by the graves of centuries, the more recent ones with familiar names, largely of people who lived in houses now ruinous - crofters, fishermen, clerics, sea-captains. Next to it stood the chief farmhouse, the Bu, going back to Viking times. He thought of the lives and deaths encompassed there, expressed through hundreds of years of music in the church, and in the big barn of the farm. The plainsongs 'Dies Irae' and 'Victimae Paschali Laudes' are used throughout the work - the first concerning the Day of Judgement, from the Mass for the Dead, the second particular to Easter Sunday and the Resurrection. These are subject to constant transformation - the intervallic contour slowly changes from one into the other, and their notes are made to dance through Renaissance astrological 'magic square' patterns. The orchestra consists of double woodwind, two horns, two trumpets and strings.

SKU: BT.DHP-1114950-120

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Albastum is a proud, stately concert march written in classic A-B-A form. It opens with a festive fanfare in the brass section, followed by a lively, bright theme, symbolising the joy of playing music together at each weekly rehearsal. Following a melodious trio, a counter theme develops and the march comes to an exciting close with a reprise of the original theme.

Albastum is een majestueuze concertmars. Stijn Roels schreef hem in de klassieke A-B-A-vorm. De vreugde die muzikanten aan musiceren beleven, komt bijzonder goed tot uitdrukking. Orkestrale wisselingen tussen de bas en de discantin het eerste deel laten de bijzondere klankkleuren van de verschillenden instrumentgroepen goed zien. Een melodieus trio en de reprise van deel A ronden de mars af. Echt zo’n mars waaraan iedereen plezier beleeft!

In diesem stolzen, majestätischen Konzertmarsch, der in einer klassischen A-B-A-Form geschrieben ist, kommt die Freude aller Musiker an ihrem Spiel zum Ausdruck. Orchestrale Wechsel zwischen Bass und Diskant im ersten Teil heben die besonderen Klangfarben der einzelnen Instrumentengruppen sehr schön hervor. Ein melodiöses Trio und die Reprise von Teil A runden diesen Marsch ab, der dem gesamten Fanfareorchester und Publikum Freude bringen wird!

Albastum est une majestueuse marche de concert, conforme la structure classique A-B-A. Elle débute avec une fanfare festive, suivie d’un changement de couleurs obtenu par l’alternance entre les cuivres graves, les saxophones et les euphoniums. La partie B - un trio mélodieux - a été confiée aux clarinettes. Un charmant contre-chant plane au-dessus du thème principal. Il s’ensuit une reprise de la partie initiale (partie A) avec, en prime, un contre-chant taillé sur mesure pour les fl tes et les clarinettes.

SKU: BR.OB-5520-16

The first true final version

ISBN 9790004338957. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Edouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole was heretofore inadequately edited: the two first editions (piano reduction and score) differ considerably from one another, since the composer continued to hone his work after the completion of the engraver's master for the piano reduction, and he even made certain compositional additions. Christian Rudolf Riedel's new urtext edition eliminates all these inadequacies and inconsistencies. Moreover, the editor was able to base himself for the first time ever on the previously unknown autograph of the solo part. The discovery of this source was nothing less than sensational. Lalo, who was an outstanding violinist in his own right, had meticulously marked up his manuscript with the help of the arrangement by Pablo de Sarasate, to whom Lalo had dedicated the work and entrusted the world premiere. This new source situation allowed for the preparation of an urtext edition that corresponds throughout to the author's final version. The composer's piano part, which sometimes resembles a short score, was revised by the editor, who rendered it easier to perform and supplemented the ten measures that had been missing until now in the introduction to the fifth movement.As benfits this publishing house, the handy 6x9 inch score is meticulously edited and is a welcome aid to study of the whole works. (Mary Nemet, Strings)

The first true final version.

SKU: BT.DHP-1114950-140

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Albastum is a proud, stately concert march written in classic A-B-A form. It opens with a festive fanfare in the brass section, followed by a lively, bright theme, symbolising the joy of playing music together at each weekly rehearsal. Following a melodious trio, a counter theme develops and the march comes to an exciting close with a reprise of the original theme.

Albastum is een majestueuze concertmars. Stijn Roels schreef hem in de klassieke A-B-A-vorm. De vreugde die muzikanten aan musiceren beleven, komt bijzonder goed tot uitdrukking. Orkestrale wisselingen tussen de bas en de discantin het eerste deel laten de bijzondere klankkleuren van de verschillenden instrumentgroepen goed zien. Een melodieus trio en de reprise van deel A ronden de mars af. Echt zo’n mars waaraan iedereen plezier beleeft!

In diesem stolzen, majestätischen Konzertmarsch, der in einer klassischen A-B-A-Form geschrieben ist, kommt die Freude aller Musiker an ihrem Spiel zum Ausdruck. Orchestrale Wechsel zwischen Bass und Diskant im ersten Teil heben die besonderen Klangfarben der einzelnen Instrumentengruppen sehr schön hervor. Ein melodiöses Trio und die Reprise von Teil A runden diesen Marsch ab, der dem gesamten Blasorchester und Publikum Freude bringen wird!

Albastum est une majestueuse marche de concert, conforme la structure classique A-B-A. Elle débute avec une fanfare festive, suivie d’un changement de couleurs obtenu par l’alternance entre les cuivres graves, les saxophones et les euphoniums. La partie B - un trio mélodieux - a été confiée aux clarinettes. Un charmant contre-chant plane au-dessus du thème principal. Il s’ensuit une reprise de la partie initiale (partie A) avec, en prime, un contre-chant taillé sur mesure pour les fl tes et les clarinettes.

SKU: BT.DHP-1043657-070

International.

Chernovil ist ein anspruchsvolles Stück für Blechbläserquintett in einer modernen Tonsprache, das an die Katastrophe, werlche sich 1986 im Atomkraftwerk von Tschernobyl ereignete, erinnert. Der Komponist widmet das Werk den tausenden Menschen - Kindern und Erwachsenen - die damals der radioaktiven Strahlung ausgesetzt waren, die genetische Probleme ausläste und sich negativ auf das Immunsystem auswirkte.

Chernovil est une pièce pour Quintette de Cuivres ; un défi musical aux sonorités contemporaines, en mémoire de la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl (1986). Ferrer Ferran a dédié cette œuvre aux centaines d’enfants et d’adultes qui ont été exposés un haut niveau de radiation, source de graves problèmes génétiques et d’effets dévastateurs sur le système immunitaire. Cette musique programme reflète l’ampleur de la tragédie ; du début, alors que la centrale nucléaire fonctionnait normalement l’explosion du réacteur, synonyme de chaos. Ferrer Ferran a composé cette œuvre dans l’espoir qu’un tel désastre ne se renouvellera plus.