SKU: HL.49002060

ISBN 9790001022149.

The 'Divertimento giocoso' by Harald Genzmer created in 1960 is scored for two woodwind instruments (flutes, recorders or transverse flute and oboe) as solo instruments opposed to the string orchestra. The composer, whose work suits the amateur music-making very much in many respects, succeeded in creating a tonal arrangement that is individual in style. In the first movement, this rhythmically very lively, thematically clearly visible and harmonically inter-esting though not revolutionary work presents the strings and the solo instruments often enter-ing canonically with an easily remembered -seventh motif; in the second movement, it leads a melody dying away a long time to a dynamic climax, adds harmonic cross relations to a scherzo moving in dance style and closes with a lively vivace movement. (Das Liebhaber-orchester).

SKU: HL.14002305

ISBN 9780853605034.

Audi Filia was written for the celebrations for St Cecilia's Day in Rome in October 1720. It was originally part of a much larger mass setting for the event, which is considered to be one of the finest pieces of music to survive from the Baroque era. This movement, intended for the gradual, is one of the more popular sections and is often performed as a stand-alone piece. It is scored for 2 Oboes, Strings, Organ, and Soprano solo.

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) was an Italian composer in the Baroque style, who mostly wrote for choral groups. He is best remembered for his operas and oratorios, but he also wrote several hundred chambercantatas for solo Voice.

SKU: PR.342402070

ISBN 9781491111253. UPC: 680160643226. Octavo inches. Text: Archibald R. Ammons. Archibald Ammons. Text by A.R. Ammons.

To benefit Chorus America, Stucky allowed himself to be auctioned off as a prize - the high bidder would receive a new work from the composer. After a few years and not really hearing anything, Stucky suddenly found himself up against a deadline. He reached back to a favorite poem by A.R. Ammons, Eyesight, which, he says, Won't let...his reader rest till the very last word...one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless..
This piece has an odd history. A few years ago, I agreed to be one of the“prizes” in an auction to benefit Chorus America: the highest bidder wouldget a new piece from me, while their money went to the organization. Thewinning bid came from a collection of several professional choruses anddirectors. But I was always a little vague about the details, and, hearingnothing more about it for a few years, forgot the whole thing.One day I received a message from Thomas Edward Morgan, directorof the Ars Nova Chamber Singers in Boulder: they had scheduled thepremiere of my new piece for a few weeks later, and could they have themusic, please? I needed a text, quickly, and (as usual) I was in a Los Angeleshotel room, not at home with my books. So I turned to the internet andsoon tracked down my favorite poet, A.R. Ammons (1926-2001).Once I stumbled on “Eyesight,” I remembered having loved the poemyears before. Archie must have loved it, too, because he included it bothin his Collected Poems 1951-1971 and in the later Selected Poems. It haseverything you want in an Archie Ammons poem: what Edward Hirschcalled his “offbeat, sideways, unpredictable radiance,” his “homespunglory.” It has one of his trademark conversations with a mountain (perhapsfrom his native North Carolina), it has the fluid motion from one line tothe next (enjambment, if you want to get technical) that won’t let him orhis reader rest till the very last word of the very last line, and it has in thatlast line one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless: “some thingsthat go are gone.”I miss Archie, but he’s not gone. I’m grateful for the wonderful poems heleft us, and I’m grateful that he was always generous and kind when I hadthe chutzpah to add my music to his.

SKU: BT.AMP-074-400

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

This series aims to present the significant concert band works of Philip Sparke in a format that enables any player to study their music whether or not they get the chance to play these pieces with their own band.

Voor dit boek heeft Philip Sparke zeven van zijn stukken voor harmonieorkest geselecteerd om muzikanten in staat te stellen ze te oefenen met behulp van professionele opnamen. Ideaal om eens wat nieuws te spelen of om indruk op dedirigent te maken door stukken in te studeren voordat de partijen zijn uitgedeeld! Inhoud: Hanover Festival • To a New Dawn • Portrait of a City • The Year of the Dragon • Kaleidoscope • The White Rose • Time Remembered

Philip Sparke wählte aus seinen Werken sieben Stücke aus, die Sie mit Unterstützung von professionellen Aufnahmen auf der CD zu Hause einstudieren können. Eine ideale Gelegenheit, einmal etwas Neues einzustudieren, oder Ihren Dirigenten mit den selbst erworbenen Künsten zu überraschen.

Sept oeuvres du brillant compositeur anglais Philip Sparke avec accompagnement d’Orchestre d’Harmonie.

SKU: BP.1137

Rev. John Hunter's book Devotional Services serves as the structure and basis for this SATB anthem for the Thanksgiving season. Using the hymn-tune NUN DANKET, John Ness Beck creates a glorious harmonic experience by using organ and trumpets to echo and interact with both the singing and a narration that serves as the majority of the message of the litany. A truly innovative appropach that will long be remembered by your congregation and choir.