Tuba and piano

SKU: P2.90007

Composed by Jonathan McNair. Chamber music, 20th century. Published by Potenza Music (P2.90007).

...and sundry movements of the heart... for Tuba and Piano. The four movements of this work explore very diverse (sundry) musical territories: abstract and serious, songlike, humorous, pensive and transcendent. Many of the musical ideas were generated in spontaneous improvising sessions or by singing--hence, movements of the heart. Prelude is anchored in its structure by a bold, serious gesture that is heard at the beginning, middle, and end of the movement, developed differently each time. The two intervening episodes are contrasting in tempo, and materials: the first is more abstract, the second a strong, focused melody. Song, the second movement, is a warmly lyrical tune in a straightforward setting. The third movement, Vaudeville, is light-hearted and witty. Standing Stones is titled after numerous sites in the British Isles where ancient people erected huge stones in circles, singly, or even lining broad avenues. The incredible effort required to do so is mind-boggling, given the tools available to the people. And that they were able to make near-perfect circles, with stones aligned by the positions of sun and moon and seasons is further evidence of their intelligence and dedication to ideas and deep feelings far beyond the daily tasks of survival. The music begins very quietly, in deep tones, enigmatic harmonies, and introspective melodies. The music gradually takes on a brighter sound until it reaches an ecstatic climax.

Saxophone Quartet

SKU: HL.14008247

Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP00517. Published by Music Sales (HL.14008247).

ISBN 9788759860694. Danish.

Per Norgard DANCERS AROUND JUPITERI: 'Shadow Dancer', dedicated to Axel Borup-Jorgensen, as my birthday greeting on the composer's 70th birthday 22.11.94II: 'Jupiter Waves', dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey D. ThompsonIII: 'Day Dancer', dedicated to the dancer and choreographer Marie Lalander, as a homage: Marie wrote the line which inspired me for the title: 'Woman, oh you day dancer'.The title of the whole work is immediately intelligible if one compares the individual titles of the outer movements with the title of the middle movement.Axel Borup-Jorgensen and Marie Lalander could be said to be in rotation around Jupiter in the following sense:Axel's music has a 'shadow dancing' side, which can most clearly be heard in his works for harpsichord and double-bass - or in his work for organ. But his music has also a light side, which can be heard in 'Marin' or in 'Nordic Summer Pastorale'.Marie's dance and choreography contain both ecstatic forces of light and expressions of the suppressed and dark. The music of the middle movement on the other hand is in all ways inspired by the actual acoustic ion waves, that constantly arise through the collision of the sun wind with Jupiter's magnet field (registered by Voyager II, 1989). This movement is dedicated to Dr Jeffrey D. Thompson who made these NASA registrations publicly available in the CD-series'NASA Voyager Space Sounds'.Per Norgard.

Unison/2-part choir - Easy

SKU: WD.080689657177

Composed by Dale Mathews. Choral, cantatas. Christmas. Choral score and book. Word Music #080689657177. Published by Word Music (WD.080689657177).

UPC: 080689657177.

The Christmas season brings with it an abundance of things that give us great joy. But there is no joy that can compare with that one, singular, ecstatic joy expressed by the Herald Angels announcing the birth of the long-awaited Messiah, Jesus, our Savior and Lord. New from the Very Simply Word Series, the best-selling Unison/2-Part Choir, easylearn, easy-sing series from Word Music & Church Resources, comes a 29-minute musical overflowing with excitement, energy, and joy celebrating the One who came to save… Rejoice! The King Has Come! Perfect for smaller choirs, or a ready-to-go musical for larger choirs with little to no rehearsal time, this new musical from the Very Simply Word Series is tailor-made to help your choir usher in the sounds of the season as you encourage your church and community to Rejoice! The King Has Come!

By Mary Lynn Lightfoot. For 2-part voices and piano. New Horizons. Christmas, Concert. Octavo

Piano

SKU: HL.14001903

Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP00981. Published by Music Sales (HL.14001903).

ISBN 9788759859605. Danish.

Animals In Concert - Three pieces for Piano solo by Per Norgard. Programme Note  1. A Tortoise's Tango (1984) - dur.: 4'  2. Light of a Night - Paul meets bird (1989) - dur.: 6'  3. Hermit Crab Tango - Esperanza (1997) - dur.: 5'   The pieces can be performed together or one by one. In the1980s, quite a few finds turned up in Per Norgard's music. The material could be, say, a number of song birds' equilibrist melodic lines, the overtones of the ocean surf, or waltzing themes by the schizophrenic artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930). Or again, as heard here, it can be the rhythms and motifs of the tango and a Beatles song (with bird), explored in three independent piano pieces that form the Animals in Concert suite, about which the composer writes:  A Tortoise's Tango: The tortoise as tango dancer must presumably possess certain rhythmic peculiarities, which I have chosen to express by letting the tune of the tortoise shuffle broadly, tripartite through the strict four partite time of tango.  Tortoise Tango was the original title of this piece, written for Achilles (the pianist Yvar Mikhashoff), for his so called tango project, including new tangos for piano by composers from all over the world.  Light of a Night (Paul meets bird) was commissioned by pianist Aki Takahashi. It is a reworked arrangement for piano of the Beatles song Blackbird. As some of us will recall, the Beatles on The White Album let the beautiful song to the blackbird be accompanied by an (apparently) live blackbird song. It is this authentic bird-motif world that in Light of a Night weaves itself into the Beatles melody and in turn is gradually infected by it, so that a completely new third entity ensues: a kind of Bird-rock ballad (or maybe it is a Beatle-bird?).  Hermit Crab Tango (Esperanza): The tango situation is quite special for a Hermit Crab. It is a well-known fact that the hermit crab - this soft animal - must run the gauntlet among the many perils at the bottom of the sea when it must move hose. I have chosen to express the angers by a tango pattern - sharp as a cactus - through which the tune, optimistic, slips to its new shelter. I have borrowed the tune from songwriter Hanne Methling's Introduction: 'I want to get through this time!' she sings in a ecstatically ascending melody line - and I believe that these words must correspond very well to the mood of the hermit crab: 'Esperanza'- the green runners of hope wind among the latticework formed by the tango rows.

Unaccompanied Violin (Violin)

SKU: HL.48022520

Violin Solo. Composed by Frank Michael Beyer. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. Hal Leonard #M202532119. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.48022520).

9.0x12.0x0.08 inches.

In 'Metamorphosen' - performed for the first time in March 2008 by Viviane Hagner at a Berlin gala concert marking the 80th birthdayof the composer, only a few weeks before his death - Frank Michael Beyer refers to Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 6 from 1911, a work the motivic and thematic penetration of which ahead of the serial technique had fascinated Beyer since his student days. Based on a scale found in Scriabin's works, Metamorphosen contrasts the frequently ecstatic nature of the piano setting with the linearity of the solo violin. The strict structure is contrasted by the music's free character which Scriabin himself described as 'volando - flying'.

Violin, viola, violoncello, piano

SKU: FG.55011-755-6

Composed by Helvi Leiviskä. Classical, contemporary. Score & parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-755-6. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-755-6).

ISBN 9790550117556.

Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, images of nature and narrative structures. Many of her works focus on human existential angst and spiritual searching and growth.


Helvi Leiviskä originally completed her Piano Quartet in A major op. 1 in 1926 but revised it a decade later, in 1935. Written for the traditional piano quartet lineup (violin, viola, cello and piano), the work is in three movements and has a duration of about 25 minutes. It features religious and ecstatic imagery such as may be found in French, German or Russian neo-Romantic styles.

Leiviskä's Piano Quartet is considered one of the cornerstones of her chamber music output. Its early version was premiered in two parts at student recitals of the Helsinki Music Institute (the 1st movement in 1925 and the 2nd and 3rd movements in 1926). The revised version was performed in full by Timo Mikkilä (piano), Sulo Aro (violin), Ilmo Ranta (viola) and Pentti Rautawaara (cello) on Finnish radio in 1939. The work was also on the programme of Leiviskä's second composition concert in 1945, being performed on that occasion by Jussi Jalas (piano), Erik Cronvall (violin), Erik Karma (viola) and Yrjö Selin (cello). Two commercial recordings have been released (Finlandia Classics 2012 and Telos Music 2016). It is published for the first time 2022 with an extensive foreword by Susanna Välimäki. The product includes the full score (piano part) and a set of string parts.

Duration: c. 25'. Have a look inside by clicking sample.

Alto voice solo, SATB choir, Piano

SKU: CA.2110100

Composed by Juliette Marie Olga (Lili) Boulanger. Edited by Michael Alber. Sacred vocal music, Hymns. Sacred vocal music, Hymns. Full score. LB 24. Duration 5 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 21.101/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2110100).

ISBN 9790007187798. Language: French/English. Text: Delavigne, Casimir.

First critical edition. Together with Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, Lili Boulanger was one of the most important representatives of impressionism. Despite her short life of just 24 years, she developed a distinctive personal style, and composed a huge variety of works including songs, piano music, operatic scenes, and choral music, all with great inventiveness. The Hymne au soleil (Hymn to the sun) for mixed choir, alto solo, and piano, was written in 1912 to a poem by Casimir Delavigne. In ecstatic layers of chords the sun is acclaimed; through its power it brings the colors of the earth to light anew. The edition contains both the original French text, with a singable English translation underlaid.

(The Great Trees: 4. The Steps of the City). By Gwyneth W. Walker (1947-). For soprano voice solo, clarinet, piano. Concerts, Secular. Moderately Easy. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing

The Great Trees: 1. Peace of Wild Things. Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker (1947-). Concerts, Secular, 21st Century. Octavo. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.7744).

Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3, Celesta, Cello, Chimes, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabass, Contrabassoon, Cymbal, Glockenspiel, Gong, Harp, Horn, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Piano, Piccolo 1 and more.

SKU: CF.O5445

Composed by Henry Brant. SWS. Large Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1983. Duration 15 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #O5445. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.O5445).

ISBN 9780825840449. UPC: 798408040444. 9 X 14 inches.

Written for the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1983, Desert Forests is one of the most successful of Brant's spatial works for conventional-sized symphony orchestra. The score mandates that the higher woodwinds (piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets) be stationed in a balcony at the back of the hall and the trumpets and trombones in boxes or balconies on opposite sides of the hall. There is also an optional improvised piano-obbligato. A recommended seating diagram for the stage instruments (also unusually arranged) is included in the score and was used to great effect in the performances conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic in May 1994. This extraordinary work expands the idea of bitonality and spatiality as a structural device to create a fifteen minute exercise in ecstatic polyphony, inspired, according to the composer by a visit to a forest of saguro cactus in Saguro National Monument, near Tucson, Arizona. Complete performance materials are available on rental.