Soprano voice solo, SATB choir, and piano (E-flat Soprano saxophone, 2 Horns in F, Piano, Organ (or digital keyboard), Double String Quartet, Double Bass) - Beginning

SKU: MN.56-0106

Composed by Howard Goodall. Lent, Holy Week, Triduum/Three Days, Tenebrae, 21st Century. Score & instrument parts. Duration 6 minutes, 47 seconds. MorningStar Music Publishers #56-0106. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.56-0106).

UPC: 688670221231. English, Latin.

Invictus: A Passion addresses one of the world’s most powerful stories through the lens of the modern world. The texts, written or inspired by women, describe not only human suffering and persecution but also the human capacity for love and humility in the face of tyranny. Composer Howard Goodall is uniquely suited to bring these texts to life with music of emotional clarity and sweeping force. This movement, scored for soprano solo, SATB choir and piano, expresses the unimaginable pain felt by a mother seeing her child torn away from her at a slave auction. To this harrowing account are appended the words of William Wilberforce, spoken in the House of Commons on 18th April 1791, “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” Duration 6:47.

Orchestra Soli STB, Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 2 Cor, 2 Tr, 3 Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb, Org - Grade 3

SKU: CA.4068703

Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Hansjörg Ewert. Vocal score. Composed 1852. Op. 147. Duration 40 minutes. Carus Verlag #4068703. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4068703).

ISBN 9790007239718. Key: C minor. Latin.

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Missa sacra, Op. 147, is a discovery not just for listeners but often for the performers themselves. The mass combines an acute fascination with sacred liturgy typical of Schumann’s time with the pragmatism of its intended use by a local choral society. The composer employs his considerable skills to create a captivating and varied score that is almost ethereal in the Kyrie, leading to passages of an intimate and lyrical piano that alternate with fortissimo for words of praise, while always displaying the utmost sensitivity and a delight in dissonance. The composer declared his setting to be “fashioned with great love”. The demanding orchestral mass can be realized with limited means. The solo parts can be filled from the choir. The work, which the composer himself did not have published, is here reissued on the basis of Schumann’s partial autograph score. Carus has also produced an arrangement of the work for choir & organ, enabling performances without orchestra in smaller venues (Carus 40.687/45).

(2.2.2.2/4.0.0.0,hp,str,T solo)

SKU: TM.02823SET

Composed by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Set Type: D. Set of parts. Published by Lucks Music Library (TM.02823SET).

(1.1D1.1D1.0/1.0.0.0,str)

SKU: TM.09974SET

Composed by Gerald Finzi. Set Type: B. Set of parts. Lucks Music Library #A6127. Published by Lucks Music Library (TM.09974SET).

Girls & Boys Come Out to Play, Upon Paul's Steeple Stands a Tree, Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies, I Saw 3 Ships Go Sailing By, Sing a Song of Sixpence, There was a Lady Loved a Swine, Over the Hills & Far Away, The Frog and the Crow.