Thomas Simaku's La Leggiadra Luna arranged for choir a capella. The music begins with a song-like expression introduced at a slow pace as if emerging from the remoteness of time itself. It is clearly based on the musical utterance of the 'white modality' but these modal segments are constantly surrounded by chromatic inflections throughout the work. Each section of the choir pursues its own path but during a compositional process of ‘zooming in and out’ as it were their individual qualities are highlighted. It is as if the initial sound object - which to begin with was far away- is brought nearer to us in time andspace. A variety of short segments predominantly modal but stemming from different chromatic ‘locations’ are often superimposed. The task of filtering out this 'amourphous' texture and giving its constituent elements - be they melodic or harmonic or a combination of both - a renewed identity becomes an essential compositional aim through which the process of crystallization occurs. The main strategy of the piece is thus exploring the interrelationship between these two sound-worlds (modal and chromatic) and their temporal qualities (ancient and modern) musical or otherwise.

Contents: Blu ??? Diamante ??? Diavolo in me ??? Il mare impetuoso al tramonto sal? sulla luna e dietro una tendina di stelle... ??? Il suono della domenica ??? Il volo ??? Madre dolcissima ??? Menta e rosmarino ??? Overdose (damore) ??? Pane e sale ??? Un soffio caldo??? X colpa di chi

The song cycle 'Lunar Beauty' was commissioned by the Harrogate International Festival. First performed on 9th August 1986. Arranged for tenor or medium voice and guitar. Duration 12 minutes.

Voce acuta / High voice. 15 mélodies des XIXe et XXe siècles, soigneusement sélectionnées pour offrir un répertoire prestigieux aux chanteurs. Chaque volume présente des leçons d’élocution et des accompagnements accessibles en ligne. Ces recueils uniques comprennent une introduction historique ainsi que les paroles complètes en italien et en anglais. Sommaire : Vincenzo Bellini: Ma rendi pur contento - Vaga luna, che inargenti • Luigi Denza: Non t’amo più! • Stefano Donaudy: O del mio amato ben - Vaghissima sembianza • Gaetano Donizetti: Amore e morte • Stanislao Gastaldon: Musica proibita • Ruggero Leoncavallo: Mattinata • Pietro Mascagni: Serenata • Gioachino Rossini: La danza - La promessa • Francesco Paolo Tosti: Aprile - Ideale - L’ultima canzone • Giuseppe Verdi: Ad una stella/ Recueil / Voix Haute et Piano

An Introduction to Repertoire. This series of 5 book/audio packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert and Sullivan. Contents: BELLINI: Vaga luna, che inargenti · BONONCINI: Vado ben spesso cangiando loco · CAMPION: Fair, if you expect admiring · DONAUDY: Perche dolce, caro bene · DOWLAND: What if I never speed' DE FALLA: Asturiana · FAURE: Le secret · Seule! · LULLY: Bois epais · MACDOWELL: The Sea · MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour · MOZART: Abendempfindung · In diesen heil'gen Hallen · OBRADORS: La mi sola, Laureola · PUCCINI: Crucifixus · Vecchia zimarra, senti · PURCELL: If music be the food of love · We sing to Him · QUILTER: Come away, death · Now sleeps the crimson petal · weep you no more · RONTANI: Caldi sospiri · SCHUBERT: Der Doppelganger · Meeres Stille · SCHUMANN: Die beiden Grenadiere · Du bist wie eine Blume · RICHARD STRAUSS: Zueignung · SULLIVAN: The Policeman's Song · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea · The Vagabond

High Voice-A new edition designed especially for American musicians with these beautiful bel canto songs available for the first time in two keys with new line-by-line English translations for study. Includes an introductory article on Bellini's songs. Contents: Almen Se Non Poss'io · Bella Nice Che D'amore · Dolente Immagine Di Fille Mia · Il Fervido Desiderio · L'abbandono · L'allegro Marinaro · La Farfalletta · Ma Rendi Pur Contento · Malinconia Ninfa Gentile · Per Pieta. Bell'idol Mio · Quando Incise Su Quel Marmo · Sogno D'infanzia · Torna Vezzosa Fillide · Vaga Luna Che Inargenti · Vanne O Rosa Fortunata.

Symphony No. 3 (1972-1975) by Per Nørgård. Per Nørgård's third symphony commissioned by The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (conductor Herbert Blomstedt) was premiered in Copenhagen in 1976 and received wide attention. The work gives comprehensive expression to a new realm of musical experience which the composer began to explore toward the end of the 1960s. While the first period in Nørgårds production in the 1050s represents his personal interpretation of the Nordic music tradition – evidenced for example in his “Piano Sonata No. 2” (1957) and“Constellations” for chamber orchestra (1958) – and the second period in the 1960s saw him working with serial techniques musical collage and a new sound-palette - especially in the orchestral works “Iris” (196-67) and “Luna” (1967) – with “Voyage into the Golden Screen” (1968) Nørgård arrived at a new compositional technique based on the use of a special form of a so-called “infinity series” a principle of musical motion to be applied to all kinds of scales (chromatic diatonic et cetera). It is characteristic that that Nørgård in the 1970s chose to cultivate diatonic infinity series already evident in the mythological opera “Gilgamesh” (1971-72). Thus the Symphony No. 3 begun directly after the opera combines the infinity series major and minor scales the partial series of natural harmonics and “sub-harmonics” (Nørgårds terminology) with rhythmic patterns based on the Golden Section (the Golden Mean) in a nexus of synchronous yet disparate elements which serve the composers vision of musical coherence.. The works which followed the symphony – the operas “Siddharta” (1975-79) and “The Divine Circus” (1981-82) and Symphony No. 4 (1981) – usher a new

La Fuite De La Luna-A reflective text by Oscar Wilde forms the lyric framework for this expressive work. To outer senses there is peace a dreamy peace on either hand deep silence in the shadowing land deep silence where the shadows cease. Optional a cappella or accompanied.

La Fuite De La Luna-A reflective text by Oscar Wilde forms the lyric framework for this expressive work. To outer senses there is peace a dreamy peace on either hand deep silence in the shadowing land deep silence where the shadows cease. Optional a cappella or accompanied.

An Introduction to Repertoire. This series of 5 book/audio packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert and Sullivan. Recordings of recitation, diction lessons and piano accompaniments are accessed online via a unique code included in each book, and can be downloaded or streamed. Contents: ANONYMOUS: Have you seen but a white lily grow' · BELLINI: Vaga luna, che inargenti · BRAHMS: Sonntag · DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben · DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love · FALCONIERI: Bella porta di rubini · DE FALLA: Asturiana · FAURE: Lydia · Le secret · GOUNOD: O ma belle rebelle · MACDOWELL: The Sea · MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour · MENDELSSOHN: For the mountains shall depart · MOZART: Abendempfindung · Non siate ritrosi · Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja · OBRADORS: La mi sola, Laureola · PURCELL: I'll sail upon the Dog Star · If music be the food of love · QUILTER: Weep you no more · Now sleeps the crimson petal · Come away, death · ROSA: Vado ben spesso cangiando loco · SCHUBERT: Die Forelle · Wandrers Nachtlied II · SCHUMANN: Die beiden Grenadiere · Widmung · SULLIVAN: I Am a Pirate King · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea · The Vagabond

Part I: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21. Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Arnold Schönberg est la figure centrale du monde musical du XXe siècle. Sa signification musicale était déjà évidente pendant sa durée de vie, mais son influence à titre posthume a augmenté énormément. Son travail a ouvert la voie à révolutionnaire des changements dans la perception musicale. Cette édition complète aspire à être tout aussi indispensable pour la recherche, ainsi que pour la performance. L'édition est publiée en deux séries : série a en format folio contient des oeuvres tout rempli, toutes les partitions piano préparées par le compositeur lui-même et les oeuvres tout inachevées convenable pour la performance - également des fragments (gros scores) qui sont mieux adaptés pour être imprimées dans un tel format. Série B, au format in-quarto, contient des versions précoces, des croquis, des idées et des fragments ainsi que Genèse et un commentaire critique. / Date parution : 1996-12-17/ Répertoire / Chant et Orchestre

Version for accompanied SATB Choir-A choral work inspired by the photograph of the same name taken from lunar orbit in 1968 considering the positive and negative sides of the human race's mastery and control of the world. The work was commissioned by the UK choir Ex Cathedra for its 40th anniversary which fell in the same year (1969) as the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing. It was written for 40-part choir on the model of Thomas Tallis's famous Spem in alium.