SKU: CL.012-4747-00
As The Last Light Fades is a programmatic work, capturing the gradual shift when the sunset gives way to a brief moment of twilight, and the stars begin to take their place in the heavens waiting for darkness to blanket the sky. As the sun starts to descend beyond the horizon, a light rainfall plays percussively on the leaves hanging above. The music conveys the feeling of peace and tranquility that one can only really experience in nature, an ethereal and almost transcendent connection, undisturbed by the disruptions of the modern world.
SKU: LO.99-3130L
UPC: 000308133431.
Lush harmonies, a supportive accompaniment, and strains of the hymn Be Thou My Vision permeate this memorable pairing of text and tune that reminds us that the light of Christ shines through the darkness that can shroud one's life.
SKU: LO.30-3567MD
UPC: 000308149760.
With lyrical beauty and rich text, this original ballad from the gifted team of Mary McDonald and Rose Aspinall is centered upon an uplifting message of encouragement: the living heart of hope is found in darkness, not in light..
SKU: SU.80101503
This is a collection of 12 short organ pieces of varied characters that were composed over a period of years. All are useful as service voluntaries or as recital selections. Contains: Augustinus-Praeludium, Aula parva, Cavatina romantica, Fanfara festiva, Gaudium, Pastorella rustica, Prayer in Darkness, Recitative, Ulmer Spatzenmusik, Valediction, Two Elegiac Pieces, and Memory ThreadOrgan Duration: 50' Composed: 2014–22 Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: HL.14020739
SKU: MN.60-6114
UPC: 688670661143. English.
From the mysterious to the glorious, Biery perfectly captures the wide-ranging moods of this text, set to the enduring tune EBENEZER. This hymn concertato was written for the Schola Cantorum of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana in observance of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. So, it's no surprise that the setting has considerable sweep and gravitas, with some fresh harmonic twists. A beautiful choir-only section spans stanzas three and four in major tonalities that nicely complement the staid minor of the rest of the hymn. The sixth and final stanza is unison with descant and concludes with a choir Alleluia and Amen. Stirring and majestic. Duration 4:00.
SKU: MN.60-6114B
UPC: 688670007798.
SKU: BT.SLB-00200400
SKU: FL.FX074321
For solo trumpet or cornet and from 7 years of instrument practice, the artist will find himself plunged into darkness, alternating mysterious, sometimes distressing sequences, with episodes of infernal descents and ascents. We are in absolute madness. - Andre TELMAN ; Instruments: 1 Solo Trumpet; Difficuly Level: Grade 4; Duration: 3 mn 10 s; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition; Composer: Andre TELMAN.
SKU: BR.OB-4631-20
ISBN 9790004317143. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: FG.55011-372-5
ISBN 9790550113725.
Images of the sea figure prominently throughout my life and memories: from holidays on the Atlantic coast during my Canadian childhood to my current Baltic home, and the imagined, only later experienced Mediterranean of my ancestral heritage. As an immigrant (son of an immigrant) bound to two northern countries, the sea is emblematic of my twin homelands, from the expanses of water surrounding them to those separating them. A Mari usque ad Mare. The sea is also an enduring image of the unknown, of expanses unexplored, of the raw power of nature and, for too many currently, of terror holding a hope of refuge - or the pain of loss. Such disparate ideas were captured for me in the seascapes of the New York painter MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom I met in 2008 during a residency on the Gulf of Mexico. Her vast, abstract, nearly monochromatic depictions of imaginary seas in wildly varying moods were the catalyst for a concerto where the piano is frequently far from a hero battling a collective, but rather acts as a channel for elemental forces surging up from the orchestra, floating - sometimes barely so - on its constantly shifting surface. There are few themes to speak of, beyond a handful of iconic ideas that periodically cycle upward. Rather, the piano's material is largely an ornamentation of the more primal rhythmic and harmonic impulses from the orchestra below - a poetic interpretation, if you will, of the more immediate experience of facing the vastness of some unknown body of water. The title Nameless Seas is borrowed from one of Thielhelm's exhibitions, as are those of the four movements, which are bridged together into two halves of roughly equal weight - one rhapsodic and free, the other more single-minded and direct, separated only by a short breath. The opening movement, Nocturne, is predominantly calm, if brooding, darkness and light alternating throughout. Lyrical arabesques sparkle over gently lapping cross-currents in the strings and mirrored timpani, the piano's full power only rarely deployed. The waves gradually build, drawing in the full orchestra for a meeting of forces in Land and Sea, a brighter, more warmly lyrical scene that unfolds in series of dreamlike, sometimes even nostalgic visions, which for me carry strong memories of sitting on rocks above surging Atlantic waves. The third movement, Wake, is a fast, perpetual-motion texture of glinting, darting rhythms and sudden shafts of light, with a prominent part for the steel drums, limning the piano's quicksilver figurations. An ecstatic climax crashes into a solo cadenza that grows progressively calmer and more introspective rather than virtuosic. Much of the tension finally releases into Unclaimed Waters, a drifting, meditative seascape in which the piano is progressively engulfed by a series of ever-taller waves, ultimately dissolving into a tolling, rippling continuum of sound. It has been a great privilege to realize such a long-held dream as this piece, and to write it for not one, but two great pianists. Risto-Matti Marin and Angela Hewitt, both of whose friendship and support have been unfailing and humbling, share the dedication. Nameless Seas was commissioned by the PianoEspoo festival and Canada's National Arts Centre, with the premieres in Ottawa and Helsinki led by Hannu Lintu and Olari Elts. Thanks are due also to the Jenny and Antti Wihuri fund, whose generous grant provided me with much-needed time, and Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida, the source to which I returned to do a large part of the work.
SKU: KJ.SO322C
UPC: 8402703220.
Erebus was an ancient demigod, most often represented as Night, the son of Chaos. Here, Mr. Bishop composed a work representing the attributes ascribed to Erebus: pensive anticipation, sullen darkness, driving passion. He features the ever-popular tritone to help create the sense of unease and with other dissonance, offers students an amazing opportunity to create an ensemble sound like no other.
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