SKU: SU.80101484
Awake, Thou World-Filling Light! (2020), a toccata for organ, is dedicated to Jan Lehtola. The image of the world-filling light comes from the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore. Instrumentation: Organ Duration: 5' Composed: 2020 Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: SU.80101321
Organ Duration: 28 ' Composed: 2012 Published by: Zimbel Press This work features seven meditations on the Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ from the cross. Each part of the composition is musically and spiritually connected with one of the words. The music attempts to portray the meaning of the words, and to heighten how they sound. Often the left hand of the organ represents Christ’s body, the right hand represents his soul, and the pedals represent his breath. In many passages, the listener can observe the instrument in its search for forgiveness, hope, and light..
SKU: SU.80101449
Spire (Mosaic for Organ) is a dramatic work commissioned for a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Walcker organ in Ulm Cathedral (Germany). Ulm Cathedral possesses the world's tallest church spire. The Lighthouses was commissioned for the 12th Sendlinder Orgelnacht in the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich-Sendling, Germany. It takes its inspiration from the role of lighthouses as an aid to navigation and as a symbol of comfort, security, and stability admist turbulent circumstances. Instrumentation: Organ Duration: 2019 Composed: 18'30 Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: OU.9780193551497
ISBN 9780193551497. 12 x 9 inches.
This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to that year's two great anniversaries connected to manned flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. A range of highly effective textures and atmospheric harmonies takes us on a journey towards a gloriously affirmative D major ending.
SKU: ST.H469
ISBN 9790220222528.
The celebrated composer of light music Haydn Wood died in 1959, and organists with a penchant for his smooth and distinctive melodies will delight in marking the occasion with Slumber Song. Arranged for the instrument by J. A Meale, it is also available for violin or cello and piano. With its polish and charm, this dreamy lullaby has a timeless appeal. Reissued in the prestigious Stainer & Bell Light Organ Music series, Slumber Song is suitable for a variety of instruments with pedals, and should present no difficulty to players of only modest technical ability.
SKU: ST.H491
ISBN 9790220224874.
Organist Richard Hills introduces this reissue of a neglected Edwardian classic with a timely note on performance-style, the composer and his works. Varied in colour and mood, and written with an idiomatic command of the instrument, these Three Impromptus reinforce the impression of Coleridge-Taylor not only as a versatile presence on the Edwardian scene, but also as a composer whose music is an enduring part of our British musical heritage.
SKU: MN.12-121
UPC: 688670121210.
Confluence was commissioned by the Organ Artist Series of Pittsburgh in celebration of its twentieth anniversary in 1999. Christa Rakich gave the premier at the closing concert of the season at Calvary Episcopal Church by in April of 1999. It has been performed frequently since that time. The title was given to honor the joining together or confluence of the three rivers of Pittsburgh: the Allegheny, the Monongalela, and the Ohio. Confluence is a curious hybrid related to both the sonata and rondo forms. It is of the ABABA design with the final A quite extended by polyphonic games and a very noisy and triumphant epilogue. The first idea is driving, rhythmic, nervous and agitated. The second is quiet, gentle and pastoral, that slowly moves in its mysterious ways, closing with a plaintive row of a dozen different pitches. The composer delights in the challenge of making tone rows as approachable and sing-able as possible. Both ideas make slightly varied restatements. At the end, fugal exploitation of the first idea is followed by that row, entering with stentorian grandeur in full pedal, heralding the triumphant close. This row, like the month of March is referred to frequently as coming in like a Iamb, going out like a lion.
SKU: PL.9621
This delightful piece, for manuals only, displays the playful side of Leslie Betteridge's musical personality. The outer sections are scherzo-like, while the chordal middle section remains related to the opening material in its syncopated rhythms and its use of similar motives. The flavor of the work is decidedly French in the lightness of its character and English Romantic in its harmony. This work would serve beautifully as a concert encore or as service music.
SKU: AU.9781506487335
ISBN 9781506487335. 9x12 inches.
This exciting collection by David Evan Thomas features seven familiar tunes expressed in historical dance genres, along with three original pieces that include a sicilienne and minuet. Highlights include a light and quick Passepied on People Look East, a gentle Pastorale on On Christmas Night, and a lively Tarantella on Oh, Sing to God Above. Be sure to check out the original Sicilienne, an example of the composer's best writing.
SKU: HL.14024513
UPC: 884088488635. 9.0x12.0x0.049 inches.
The Fountain Reverie features soft, rippling arpeggios with a contrasting middle section. As with the Festival Toccata, published at the same time, the brilliance of Fountain Reverie disguises the fact that one does not need to be a virtuoso to play it well and effectively, and it plays well on many different Organs.Percy Fletcher was an English composer, conductor and Orchestrator of prodigious output who made his career in the lively world of the London music theatre of the years of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was music director at many theatres, including His Majesty's Theatre for the last seventeen years of his life. He was the Orchestrator and conductorfor the big budget spectacular theatre piece Chu Chin Chow which ran for five years, a record that remained unbroken for forty years. In addition to his myriad works of light music, Fletcher also wrote a serious church cantata, The Passion of Christ, as well as the delightful children's work, The Walrus and the Carpenter.
SKU: SU.80101403
Symphony for Organ (2013) is cast as a dramatic progression from darkness into light. The first movement, Masque, is extremely violent and bleak. The title is used with a touch of irony--for this is not a masque of courtly diversion, but rather a furious struggle against the darkness, played out in a series of dramatic episodes following a Tudor-era formal design. The ending builds to a dramatic peak, and leaves us in shell-shocked silence. The second movement, Sarabande, begins quietly and mournfully, and gradually gains in fervency. A faster middle section is a spinning dance before the return of the opening music. In the coda, the light gradually approaches. The third movement, Chorale, evokes the colors of a new dawn. The music of the first movement's struggle gradually becomes washed in the blaze of morning. Instrumentation: Organ Duration: 21' Composed: 2013 Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: HL.49046414
ISBN 9781540090522. UPC: 842819103974.
The American musical patrons Mildred and Robert Wood Bliss were considering which distinguished composer to commission to create a work in celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary in 1938. The couple had made the acquaintance of Igor Stravinsky in April the preceding year at the premiere of his ballet Jeu de Cartes in New York and had subsequently invited the composer to their country home 'Dumbarton Oaks' in Washington D.C. to talk about a new composition. Stravinsky only just managed to complete the work in time for the anniversary celebrations: its date of completion was also the date of its first performance. For his classically styled three-movement work, he selected the title Concerto in E flat, adding the subtitle Dumbarton Oaks as a dedication. The structure of the work references the concerto grosso: it features a soloist ensemble which unites in the tutti sequences but also plays in concertino groups during the solo episodes. Broken chordal structures characterise the central movement whereas the outer movements are distinguished through their use of fugato. Dumbarton Oaks went on to become one of Stravinskys mostsuccessful works, performed widely and delighting Mildred Bliss so much that she immediately issued another commission, for the Symphony in C. Its composer's very public commitment to American cultural life helped pave the way for Stravinskys emigration to the USA in 1945. As early as 1952 Leif Thybo created an arrangement for organ which Stravinsky probably did not know at the time of his life.
SKU: BA.BA08346-67
ISBN 9790006522415. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: B-flat major.
About Barenreiter Urtext Orchestral Parts
Why musicians love to play from Bärenreiter Urtext Orchestral Parts
- Urtext editions as close as possible to the composer’s intentions - With alternate versions in full score and parts - Orchestral parts in an enlarged format of 25.5cm x 32.5cm - With cues, rehearsal letters, and page turns where players need them - Clearly presented divisi passages so that players know exactly what they have to play - High-quality paper with a slight yellow tinge which does not glare under lights and is thick enough that reverse pages do not shine through
SKU: BA.BA08343-67
ISBN 9790006522156. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: G minor.
Why musicians love to play from B�¤renreiter Urtext Orchestral Parts
- Urtext editions as close as possible to the composer�s intentions - With alternate versions in full score and parts - Orchestral parts in an enlarged format of 25.5cm x 32.5cm - With cues, rehearsal letters, and page turns where players need them - Clearly presented divisi passages so that players know exactly what they have to play - High-quality paper with a slight yellow tinge which does not glare under lights and is thick enough that reverse pages do not shine through
SKU: BT.PMC3367
Each of the five connected movements in this choral cycle contains references to 'Light,' assembled from various sacred Latin texts. I composed Lux Aeterna in response to my mother's final illness and found great personal comfortand solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels - spiritual, artistic and intellectual. The work opens and closes with the beginning and ending of theRequiem Mass, with the central three movements drawn respectively from the Te Deum, O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus. The opening Introitus introduces several themes that recur later in the work and includes an extended canonon et lux perpetua. In Te, Domine, Speravi contains, among other musical elements, the cantus firmus Herzliebster Jesu (from the Nuremburg Songbook, 1677) and a lengthy inverted canon on fiat misericordia. O Nata Lux and Veni,Sancte Spiritus are paired songs, the former an a cappella motet at the center of the work and the latter a spirited, jubilant canticle. A quiet setting of the Agnus Dei precedes the final Lux Aeterna, which reprises the openingsection of the Introitus and concludes with a joyful celebratory Alleluia. --Morten Lauridsen.
SKU: CA.1804900
ISBN 9790007032043.
