SKU: AP.1-ADV9027

UPC: 805095090277. English.

Hear the composer perform his Preludes (Vol. 2) plus four jazz standards.

Titles: Prelude VII * Prelude VIII * Prelude IX * Prelude X * Prelude XI * Prelude XII * Moon and Sand (Wilder/Engvick) * Odds Against Tomorrow (John Lewis) * The Clothed Woman (Duke Ellington) * New World A-Comin' (Duke Ellington).

SKU: CR.977839

ISBN 9780758662255. 9 x 12 inches.

Following the successful Hymn Prelude Library series for organ comes a comprehensive set of piano preludes for all the hymn tunes in Lutheran Service Book. Not an adaptation of the organ series, this collection features newly composed pieces by dozens of composers who write in a variety of styles and harmonizations. The pieces are useful as preludes, postludes, music at the offering, for introductions, and during distribution, as well as for those who play hymns at home. The durable wire binding ensures that each page lies flat against the music stand.

The complete library will include 12 volumes organized alphabetically by hymn tune. Volume 8 contains hymn tunes starting with NO.

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About the Editor
Kevin Hildebrand is Kantor at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has more than 75 music titles in print with CPH and was the editor of Hymn Prelude Library.

SKU: C4.9790902257176

ISBN 9790902257176. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932) enjoyed an illustrious and colourful career as both concert pianist and composer. He wished to include J.S. Bach's music in his concerts and sought the grandeur of some of the large secular organ works. The transcriptions he made for this purpose are arguably better than the numerous Bach transcriptions made by his contemporaries. D'Albert's versions of eight secular masterworks present them remarkably close to their original form, yet perfectly matched to the modern piano. At times, they make very considerable technical demands, but the effort to master them is amply rewarded.

This 116-page volume marks their first appearance since they were first issued over a century ago. Many errors and inaccuracies have been remedied and English translations of his musical terms have been provided.

SKU: CR.977836

ISBN 9780758662224. 9 x 12 inches.

Following the successful Hymn Prelude Library series for organ comes a comprehensive set of piano preludes for all the hymn tunes in Lutheran Service Book. Not an adaptation of the organ series, this collection features newly composed pieces by dozens of composers who write in a variety of styles and harmonizations. The pieces are useful as preludes, postludes, music at the offering, for introductions, and during distribution, as well as for those who play hymns at home. The durable wire binding ensures that each page lies flat against the music stand.

The complete library will include 12 volumes organized alphabetically by hymn tune. Volume 5 contains preludes for tunes starting with the letters H and I.

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With a subscription, you'll pay $40.00 for each volume in the series—a 20% savings. You'll also automatically receive each new volume as soon as it is released. Subscribe now >

About the Editor
Kevin Hildebrand is Kantor at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has more than 75 music titles in print with CPH and was the editor of Hymn Prelude Library.

SKU: CR.977834

ISBN 9780758662200. 9 x 12 inches.

Following the successful Hymn Prelude Library series for organ comes a comprehensive set of piano preludes for all the hymn tunes in Lutheran Service Book. Not an adaptation of the organ series, this collection features newly composed pieces by dozens of composers who write in a variety of styles and harmonizations. The pieces are useful as preludes, postludes, music at the offering, for introductions, and during distribution, as well as for those who play hymns at home. The durable wire binding ensures that each page lies flat against the music stand.

The complete library will include 12 volumes organized alphabetically by hymn tune. Volume 3 contains hymn tunes starting with D and E.

Tunes: DAMASCUS ROAD; DARWALL'S 148TH; DAS WALT GOTT VATER; DEN SIGNEDE DAG; DEN STORE HVIDE FLOK; DENBY; DENNIS; DEO GRACIAS; DER AM KREUZ; DER LIEBEN SONNE LICHT UND PRACHT; DER MANGE SKAL KOMME; DETROIT; DEUS TUORUM MILITUM; DIADEMATA; DIE GULDNE SONNE; DIVINUM MYSTERIUM; DIX; DOROTHY; DOWN AMPNEY; DU LEBENSBROT, HERR JESU CHRIST; DUKE STREET; DUNDEE; DUNEDIN; DUNSTAN; EARTH AND ALL STARS; EASTER HYMN; EBENEZER; EIN FESTE BURG (ISORHYTHMIC); EIN FESTE BURG (RHYTHMIC); EINS IST NOT; EIRENE; EL SENOR ES MI LUZ; ELLACOMBE; ELLERS; ELVET BANKS; ENERGY; ENGELBERG; ERHALT UNS; HERR; ERMUNTRE DICH; ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVOGELEIN; ES IST DAS HEIL; ES IST EIN ROS (ISORHYTHMIC); ES IST EIN ROS (RHYTHMIC); ES IST GENUG; ES IST GEWISSLICH; ES WOLLE GOTT UNS GNADIG SEIN; EVAN; EVENTIDE; EWING.

SKU: FA.MFCD007PN

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.

The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.

Unfortunately, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!

SKU: FA.MFCD012PN

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

This is the piano solo reduction of Debussy's Wagnerian opera Rodrigue et Chimene (1890-93) which has had quite a few orchestral performances. Here the work is completed by Robert Orledge with a new concert ending.

SKU: CR.977840

ISBN 9780758662262. 9 x 12 inches.

SKU: CR.977843

ISBN 9780758662293. 9 x 12 inches.

SKU: LM.29400

ISBN 9790230994002. 9 x 12 inches. French.

Piano Music.