SKU: GI.G-9799

Composed by Heinrich Schutz. Edited by Alice Parker. Sacred. 64 pages. GIA Publications #9799. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-9799).

UPC: 785147979913. English. Text Source: 32 selected Psalms, tr. Gracia Grindal and Jean Janzen. Text by Gracia Grindal.

Intended for use in churches and classrooms, Alice Parker has gleaned 32 of Schütz’s psalm settings from the seventeenth-century Becker Psalter. The new texts of Gracia Grindal are lyrical English versions based on the Psalms themselves, rather than literal translations of Becker’s German text. The indexes and Parker’s commentary for each setting make this a useful resource for singers, directors, and accompanists. The collection epitomizes hymn singing of the seventeenth century, just as Bach’s chorales would come to exemplify the tradition 100 years later. For today’s audience, steeped in the patterns of tonal music, these pieces—with their Renaissance freshness of mode and meter—come as a welcome tonic.

Violin, piano

SKU: FG.55011-466-1

Composed by Armas Jarnefelt. Fennica Gehrman #55011-466-1. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-466-1).

ISBN 9790550114661.

Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1958) was a Finnish composer and conductor. Jarnefelt studied in Berlin in 1890-91 with Albert Becker as his teacher. In addition to composing studies, Jarnefelt fully enjoyed the life that a bustling metropolis could offer to a young man - concerts, operas, cafe life etc. Romanze, composed for Geraldine Morgan, was premiered in Helsinki in February 1892. According to critics (notably Bis Wasenius) the work was un-Finnish, perhaps echoing the continental winds Jarnefelt had experienced in Berlin. That aside, Jarnefelt's future brother-in-law, Jean Sibelius, analyzed the Romanze in a letter to his fiancee, Aino, sister of Armas: I think Romanze is a fine technical accomplishment, even the structure works well, given the theme as it is. But Armas certainly can do better than this, he should not waste his efforts in small-scale [salon] music. - Armas will find his own way and will be hailed as the greatest musician of this country..

Trumpet trio and organ - moderately advanced

SKU: CY.CC2915

Composed by Jean Sibelius. Arranged by Evan Becker. Finnish National Romantic. Score and parts. Published by Cherry Classics (CY.CC2915).

Karelia Suite, Opus 11 is a concert suite taken from an 11-movement work that Sibelius composed using Finnish folk music. Karelia was one of the composer's favorite parts of Finland.

Intermezzo is a bouncy, heroic march in Allegro tempo about 3-minutes in length and is appropriate for moderately advanced performers.

Parts are supplied for C and B-flat Trumpets.

SKU: M7.IFO-31

Beckerath-Orgel in der Nikolaikirche in Alzey. Composed by Felix Alexandre Guilmant, Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, Gaston Litaize, Georg Bohm, Hanns-Peter Springer, Jean Francaix, and Johann Sebastian Bach. CD. Duration 72'. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #IFO 31. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.IFO-31).