SKU: HL.14006907
SKU: HL.14006906
SKU: HL.48024129
ISBN 9781784542344. UPC: 888680708894. 7.25x10.25 inches.
Britten's arrangements of Schubert's The Trout (op 32/D550) for small orchestra, and Schumann's Spring Night (op 39 no 12) for chamber orchestra, dating from 1942, are settings of anonymous English translations. The new edition includes the original German words (Schubart, Eichendorff), as many performers and audiences will prefer the songs in the original language. In his preface, Nicholas Clark, Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation, speculates on why the songs were set in English and on the possibility that the translator was Peter Pears, commenting that “the English language settings allowed [Britten] to edge away from existing versions of the songs, to assist him in imprinting his own unique mark on both works.” The Trout is scored for 2 clarinets & strings; Spring Night for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, triangle, harp (or piano) and strings.
SKU: HL.14027993
ISBN 9788759811832. English.
Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Robertson, 29th November 2002.3 Flutes, 1st and 2nd also Alto Flutes in G, 3rd also Piccolo3 Oboes, 3rd also Cor Anglais in F3 Clarinets in Bb, 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb3 Bassoons, 3rd also Contra Bassoon4 Horn in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 TubaTimpani4 Percussion, four playersPlayer 1 - Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Water Chime, Bell Tree, Japanese Wood Blocks, Cymbal (Suspended), TamTam (Medium)Player 2 - Triangle, Tubular Bells, Crotales, Marimba, Chinese CymbalPlayer 3 - TamTam (Large), Java Gong(Large, very low), Bell Lyra (Handheld), Sizzle CymbalPlayer 4 - Bass Drum, Glockenspiel, Xylophone1 Harp1 Piano, also CelestaStrings - 16/14/12/10/8All transposing instruments are notated in their relevant transpositions.Any accidental apply only to the note that it immediately precedes, except tied notes.Naturals appear occasionally 'for safety'.'LISTENING EARTH' is a symphonic drama, a one- movement composition in four parts based on the work by two writers, Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and W.H.Auden (1907-1973). Joseph Addison is not particularly well known; he was English, a classical scholar, essayist, poet and politician, but one of his hymns was used by Benjamin Britten. in his setting of a Thomas Tallis canon.The hymn is singularly beautiful and being a composer always inspired by extramusical stimuli such as poems, nature, paintings, I was immediately convinced when I carne across the Addison hymn, that here was exactly what I wanted to use as my major source of inspiration for this piece, commissioned by and written for The Berlin Philharmonic. I don't refer to the hymn in its entirety, but have chosen the following 3 excerpts, all acting as mottos for the first three sections of the piece, thus turning the piece into a straightforward tonepoem in the classical.
SKU: AP.40494
UPC: 038081453712. English.
Gone are the winds---Bach's great music remains. But, it is not merely giving the horn parts to the violas. This is a reworking that maintains the integrity of the music adapted for new instrumentation. Scored with four violin parts and two viola parts, this piece can be performed effectively using single or multiple players on each part. The antiphonal writing highlights the contrapuntal genius of this masterpiece. Perfect for festival, to feature students, or as an opener or closer! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.40494S
UPC: 038081453729. English.
SKU: AP.49891
ISBN 9781470657215. UPC: 038081575360. English.
Rossano Galante's composition Cadence Everlasting begins with a solo horn accompanied by sustained strings, setting the tone for this lyrical piece. This work aims to capture humanity's love affair with music. The beauty of music is its ability to evoke an emotional response without words, just sonic waves. Music truly is the sound of emotions. (4:20).
SKU: AP.49891S
ISBN 9781470657222. UPC: 038081575377. English.
SKU: HL.14023642
ISBN 9780711978119. 9.0x12.0x0.243 inches.
This work was written by Michael Nyman towards the end of 1997, commissioned by the English Sinfonia to celebrate the orchestra's taking up residence in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The first performance was given by the English Sinfonia under Bramwell Toevy at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 14 April 1998. Duration c. 17mins. Instrumentation:; 2 FLUTES; 2 OBOES; 2 CLARINETS IN Bb; 2 BASSOONS; 2 HORNS IN F; 2 TRUMPETS IN Bb; TIMPANI; STRINGS.
SKU: AP.BSO00107C
UPC: 029156097801. English.
A suite of three Irish pieces at a moderately easy level. Irish Hornpipie, Air, and Irish Jig, woven together, make a very good concert piece. Highlight any concert with this smiler.
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.MUSM570206117
English.
For Soprano, Tenor, Male Narrator and Ensemble. Published in 1970. Soprano voice, Tenor voice, Narrator, Flute/Alto Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Baritone Saxophone, French Horn, Piano/Cembalo, Violin, Viola, and 2 Percussionists. Score.
SKU: BT.MUSM570202294
For Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Harp, Piano, Violin and Cello. Published 1992, rev. 1999 First performance: 22nd July 1992, Pembroke Chapel, Cambridge Festival, New Music Players, conducted by Paul Hoskins. First performance revised version: 15th May 1999, Brighton Festival, New Music Players, conducted by Patrick Bailey.
SKU: BT.MUSM570203376
For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Banjo, Horn, Trumpet, 2 Trombone, Piano, 2 Violin, Vla, Cello, Double Bass First performance: Tokyo, 1984, Ryoichi Kawai (cond), Musica Practica Ensemble.
SKU: BT.MUSM570203635
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, Percussion, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass. Commissioned by CDMC (Centro para la diffusion de la musica contemporanea), Spain. Premiere: Tokyo, 2000, Yasuaki Itakura (cond), Tokyo Sinfonietta.
SKU: BT.MUSM570203413
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet or Double Bass, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Percussion First performance: Tokyo, 1981, Jo Kondo (cond), Musica Practica Ensemble.
SKU: HL.14027979
ISBN 9788759888780. English.
Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 1995. Programme note: CORONA makes the final part of the SOLAR-TRILOGY, a huge symphonic triptych about the life and behavior of the Sun. The first'panel' GONG depicts the birth, life and final collapse of our nearest star, the second ZENITH describes in its ultra-slow tempo the patient rise of the Sun toward midday ferocity and its subsequent setting. CORONA, then, is a symphonic 'portrait' of the phenomenally hot whispy brim encircling and radiating from the Sun, a sizzling halo of electrons and photons visible only during a total eclipse. Formally CORONA follows the process of such totalityin progress:the gradual eclipsing by the Moon - total darkness with thefierce, sparkling outer corona - the gradual 'rebirth' of the light toward the full gl.ory and warmth of the Sun.Besides the obvious astronomical narrative of the SOLAR-TRILOGY there's a metaphysical angle too, underlying each of the three compositions: GONG, in spite of its apparent energy, may be the most pessimistic of them all, epitomizing the death and ultimate annihilation of the prime source of Life itself. ZENITH is a hommage to human aspiration and spiritual endurance and CORONA ends with Hope and Glory after a journey from depression throughtotal despair. Super-structurally, the zenith of ZENITH makes the zenith of the entire trilogy, i.e. when the E- flat of the unisone horns in ZENITH is heard, we are exactly halfway through the collected work. Poul Ruders.
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