SSATB Choir, Piano - Level 3

SKU: CA.926200

Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition to the CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full Score. Composed 1883. L 6. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.262/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.926200).

ISBN 9790007249243. Key: E major. Language: French. Text: Bourget, Paul.

Beau soir seems to have inspired musicians to make their own arrangements - for violin, cello, saxophone quartet, or even for five-part chamber choir and piano, as in this version by Denis Rouger. Unlike the instrumental versions, this one retains Paul Bourget's text: the poetic depiction of a sunset on a mild summer evening, on which light and shade merge into one another like the rhythm and harmony in Debussy's setting. It is not an unclouded depiction, but the recognition of our own finiteness. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).

SATB choir and organ

SKU: ST.Y222

Composed by Rhian Samuel. SATB and organ. Choral. Octavo. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y222. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y222).

ISBN 9790220221491.

A short choral nocturne for SATB and organ, Pan ddaw ust y nos is a setting of a poem by Nesta Wyn Jones. Welsh speakers will respond to the subtle imagery and verbal nuance of the poet's wordplay, as well as to the intense lyric moment of charged reminiscence captured both in her evocation of bygone summer evenings and in Rhian Samuel's simple, evocative music. Pan ddaw ust y nos was written for the London Welsh Chorale, conductor Kenneth Bowen, was premiered at St David's Cathedral, West Wales, on 24 September 2005. An English translation by the composer is also included.

Madrigals and Partsongs by Clifford Bartlett. Arranged by John Rutter. For SATB choir, mainly a cappella. Mixed Voices. Oxford Choral Classics Collections. Secular, Choral Collection. Vocal score. 384 pages. Published by Oxford University Press