SKU: HL.14006472

ISBN 9780711922938. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches.

The twelve pieces range in standard from approximately Grade One to Grade Four, and three of the titles have been set on the Piano Syllabuses of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

SKU: ST.Y224

ISBN 9790220221552.

Scenes from Welsh life and landscape are a frequent source of inspiration for the music of Rhian Samuel, and, in Dovey Junction, the joyful atmosphere of families en route to the Welsh seaside via the little west-coast railway line is the cue for a crackling scherzo for brass quintet.

A snappy rondo theme insists on dressing up in a different texture each time it returns. In between, pithy staccato phrases for trumpets are the setting for more cantabile figures from horn and trombone, and a brief and bluesy episode for muted solo trumpet suggests lazy days on the beach, or grown-up nostalgia for holidays long past. But the energy and sense of expectation remain unstoppable from the first bar to the last, and all five instruments sweep the music into a furious coda that ends the work in riotous high spirits.

Dovey Junction was written for performance by Borealis Brass (Alaska) at the UNESCO World Forum on Music, Los Angeles, USA in October 20005, at the invitation of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, (Rome).

SKU: HL.14007414

ISBN 9781844499366.

Albums of new musical works by established British and Irish composers. For players of elementary to intermediate standard. Edited, with performance notes, by Richard Deering.