Cet arrangement pour orchestre d?harmonie du célèbre Canon de Thomas Tallis - qui met en musique le psaume 67 God Grant we Grace - comprend quatre couplets de ce cantique. Le premier est en forme de canon le deuxième est interprété par les cuivres le troisième par les bois et le dernier est repris par l?orchestre entier. Le somptueux arrangement réalisé par Philip Sparke conviendra à toutes les formations même restreintes.

New Edition Score-In its sublime beauty and inspired writing for strings Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis remains one of Ralph Vaughan Williams' greatest works and his first indisputable masterpiece.This newedition contains practical revisions and editorial corrections using the composer's autograph manuscript and the first published edition as sources.

Brass Quintet Parts for 'Four voluntaries' by Thomas Tallis arranged for brass quintet by Peter Maxwell Davies.

Thomas Tallis écrivit son deuxième psaume dans le cadre de ses Nine tunes for Archbishop Parker?s Psalter en 1567 une collection qui fut utilisée fréquemment comme source d?inspiration dans le passé. Tandis que des compositeurs comme Vaughan Williams ou Philip Sparke ont cité et varié le thème d?une manière toujours reconnaissable la version de Rob Goorhuis après une introduction déguisant le thème ne le présente en forme originale qu?une fois mais d?une façon splendide et spectaculaire.

Thomas Tallis écrivit son deuxième psaume dans le cadre de ses Nine tunes for Archbishop Parker?s Psalter en 1567 une collection qui fut utilisée fréquemment comme source d?inspiration dans le passé. Tandis que des compositeurs comme Vaughan Williams ou Philip Sparke ont cité et varié le thème d?une manière toujours reconnaissable la version de Rob Goorhuis après une introduction déguisant le thème ne le présente en forme originale qu?une fois mais d?une façon splendide et spectaculaire.

Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Robertson 29th November 2002.3 Flutes 1st and 2nd also Alto Flutes in G 3rd also Piccolo3 Oboes 3rd also Cor Anglais in F3 Clarinets in Bb 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb3 Bassoons 3rd also Contra Bassoon4 Horn in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 TubaTimpani4 Percussion four playersPlayer 1 - Vibraphone Glockenspiel Water Chime Bell Tree Japanese Wood Blocks Cymbal (Suspended) TamTam (Medium)Player 2 - Triangle Tubular Bells Crotales Marimba Chinese CymbalPlayer 3 - TamTam (Large) Java Gong(Large very low) Bell Lyra (Handheld) Sizzle CymbalPlayer 4 - Bass Drum Glockenspiel Xylophone1 Harp1 Piano also CelestaStrings - 16/14/12/10/8All transposing instruments are notated in their relevant transpositions.Any accidental apply only to the note that it immediately precedes except tied notes.Naturals appear occasionally 'for safety'.'LISTENING EARTH' is a symphonic drama a one- movement composition in four parts based on the work by two writers Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and W.H.Auden (1907-1973). Joseph Addison is not particularly well known; he was English a classical scholar essayist poet and politician but one of his hymns was used by Benjamin Britten. in his setting of a Thomas Tallis canon.The hymn is singularly beautiful and being a composer always inspired by extramusical stimuli such as poems nature paintings I was immediately convinced when I carne across the Addison hymn that here was exactly what I wanted to use as my major source of inspiration for this piece commissioned by and written for The Berlin Philharmonic. I don't refer to the hymn in its entirety but have chosen the following 3 excerpts all acting as mottos for the first three sections of the piece thus turning the piece into a straightforward tonepoem in the classical

Audivi Media Nocte est basé sur le motet de même nom écrit par Thomas Tallis au 16e siècle - une oeuvre qui fascine grandement le compositeur Oliver Waespi. Alors qu?il était en train de composer diverses séquences d?accords et de structures rythmiques orientèrent son travail vers la création d?une histoire musicale qui oscille entre le passé et le présent entre la contemplation et la frivolité entre la prière et la fête avec des éléments d?un concerto grosso et divers prestations solistiques. Audivi Media Nocte est une oeuvre ardue innovante et captivante idéale à interpréter lors d?un concours.

Yn Ieren en Sinen-A Man’s Destiny has the Frisian line ‘Yn Ieren en Sinen’ (‘with much conviction’) as its subtitle. The work was commissioned by CMV Harmonie Sneek (based in Friesland The Netherlands) to acknowledge their 95th anniversary. The composer based this work on the life of a former member of the band who played flugelhorn in the ensemble until the age of 86. Their favourite piece of music ‘Canon’ by Thomas Tallis provided a great deal of musical inspiration for this characteristic and versatile work in which the flugelhorn plays a significant role.

'A Man's Destiny'-‘Yn Ieren en Sinen’ (‘with much conviction’) was commissioned by CMV Harmonie Sneek (Friesland The Netherlands) to mark their 95th anniversary. As requested by the commissioning party the composer based this work on the life of a former member of the band who played flugelhorn until the age of 86. Music was very important in the eventful life of the man in question. A passionate musician he had a great love for chorale melodies and his favourite piece the famous Canon by the English composer Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) was the source of inspiration for this composition.