Exit Music for Orchestra was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2006-07. Exit Music was commissioned by the Bergen International Festival for the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and is dedicated to Per Nørgård on the occasion of his 75th birthday.Programme note It began with a dream as it always does when I compose. I dreamt that I was standing in an open doorway on a hill in an otherwise open landscape. I do not know what was behind the door but in front of it - towards the landscape - I 'saw' my music disappearing. I stood looking for the music and started to hear it to remember it in time with its disappearance.The dream continued to recur as strange pictures in my daydreams and I continued to try to write down the music that had vanished. It was also the dream that gave the piece its title- Exit Music. Exit Music is based on three simple songs (the songs that vanish through the doorway): a little lullaby which continues to reappear in fragments; a strange polyphonic pop song that refers to a section of my opera Under the Sky; and a passionate little love song which concludes the piece on the strings very quietly and in unison. These simple songs are then constantly overpainted by enervating repeated motes in fairly simple rhythms which push the songs out of the room. (Bent Sørensen)

(A Tribute to The Beatles )-Master arranger Bruce Healey brings us a spectacular showcase of pop music's greatest act with 13 memorable songs each given a new creative treatment in this stunning symphonic arrangement. Includes: All My Loving All YouNeed Is Love Blackbird Can't Buy Me Love Come Together Day Tripper Here Comes The Sun If I Fell Lady Madonna Let It Be Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Something and Yesterday.

Above All features 12 powerful songs that are sure to find a place in any Palm Sunday Easter or Communion service. This collection is ideal for choirs ensembles and student choirs and the songs can be performedindividually or in four mini-musicals leading up to Easter. As a finale the DVD Accompaniment Trax features powerful visuals for the last three songs. Titles include: O Wondrous Love The Glories of Calvary Lord of Life andLove Above All Behold the Lamb. For All You've Done O Mighty Cross I Will Glory in the Cross All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises God So Loved Saved the Day My Redeemer Lives. Orchestration includes score and parts forFlute Oboe Clarinet Trumpet 1 2 3 Horn Trombone 1 2 3 Percussion 1 2 Violin Viola Cello String Bass Rhythm (Piano/Guitar/Bass). Instrumentation varies. SATB Listening CD CD Accompaniment Trax (Split) DVDAccompaniment Trax Orchestration CD 10-Pack CD Preview Pack also available.

Nobody Does It Better At the Ballet The Entertainer They're Playing My Song The Way We Were One What I Did for Love

Music Of Our Time. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. ‘My Sinfonia No. 8 is not at all tragic or moody like the Seventh. It is a summer piece and is based on three moments from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘, writes Hans Werner Henze. This, however, is all we get to know from the composer regarding the work’s reference to Shakespeare’s comedy. On closer examination of the three-movement symphony it turns out that the first movement is a fantasia on Oberon’s order to Puck to search for the magic flower. In the second movement, Henze apparently set the love scenes between Titania and Bottom to music. Ultimately, the final movement shines gracefully and peacefully as if everything that had happened before had only been a dream. - Hans Werner Henze/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Solo for Oboe or Violin-'The title only appears frivolous to those who have lived little. With the passage of time the seasons that pass the differences in quantity and quality of light of temperature and weather become of ever greater importance in the meaning of our individual existence. This transformation follows the path of our lives and often mimes in front of our very own eyes incredulous and wondrous events that we can only experience once in a lifetime: our birth our blossoming our aging and our death. Such a subject could well take up ten years of my life. This was the case. Nevertheless everything started very innocently with a proposition from my friend François Leleux to write him a double concerto that he could play with Natalia Gutman initially named ‘Musica Concertante’. It was with this second proposition from François for another double concerto this time with Lisa Batiashvili that the idea came to me for a cycle of four concertos with each time a different instrument from the string quartet to join the oboe. The automnal colours of the cello are a perfect match for the retrospective nature of the first completed concerto in the cycle. ‘concerto nostalgico l’automne’ whilst the love and the first child of the Leleux-Batiashvili couple could only bring Spring to mind hence the ‘Concerto amoroso le printemps’ was born. When Jean-Marc Bador asked me to be an associate of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris for two years it was quite naturally that I thought of completing this cycle for François Leleux with winter ‘Concerto tenebroso’ created in January 2010 with Lise berthaud playing the viola. All that remained was for me to conclude with a work that reunited all four protagonsits. It was summer the ‘Concerto luminoso’ which took on this role’.