Edited by Keri Dexter; Geoffrey Webber. For SATB choir (with divisions) accompan...(+)
Edited by Keri Dexter;
Geoffrey Webber. For SATB
choir (with divisions)
accompanied. Mixed
Voices. Church Music
Society publications.
Sacred, Choral
Collection. Level B-C
(easy - moderately
difficult). Vocal score.
87 pages. Published by
Oxford University Press
SATB Choir SKU: HL.14041435 Composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Large Choral. Cl...(+)
SATB Choir
SKU:
HL.14041435
Composed
by Geoffrey Burgon. Large
Choral. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2010. Chester Music
#CH74250. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14041435).
UPC:
884088915070.
6.75x9.75x0.257
inches.
Features
five songs, also known as
St John Of The Cross
(Canciones Entre El Alma
Y El
Esposo).
Where
can your hiding be
But
have been found
again
Of flowers and
emeralds sheen
Now, as
she
longaspired
Rejoice,
my love, with
me
Cancion
es entre el alma y el
esposo is a poem
consisting of forty
verses, reproduced below.
Havingpreviously set two
sections of it as
separate a cappella
choruses and one fortwo
countertenors andstrings,
I've long wanted to make
a complete setting of the
work and, by arranging
the countertenorpiece for
a cappella chorus and
setting the remaining
verses as two more
anthems for the same
forces,I'vecompleted the
task. The five pieces can
of course still be
performed separately, or
brought togetheras a
twenty-five minute
setting of Roy Campbell's
translation from the
original Spanish of this
vivid andintense
poem.Geoffrey Burgon,
May 2008.
Mixed choir SKU: FG.55011-455-5 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score. Fenn...(+)
Mixed choir
SKU:
FG.55011-455-5
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Score. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-455-5.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-455-5).
ISBN
9790550114555.
This
cycle of carols, to the
poetry of Christina
Rossetti, was assembled
piecemeal over a number
of years, gradually
acquiring a larger
dramatic and harmonic
arch shape as new
settings were added. I
was particularly
attracted to Rossetti's
conflation of the dark,
fallow winter landscape
with that of the soul
waiting for salvation.
The cycle traces the long
nights of watchfulness
before Christmas, with
the great event
constantly deferred, only
glimpsed periodically in
different visions before
the music turns inward
again to contemplation.
The opening carol
embodies this spirit,
with passages of diffuse,
roving harmony
interspersed with
meditative, lyrical
pedals, calling out the
night watch and dreaming
of a far-off summer of
the spirit. Earth Grown
Old is a kind of double
carol, setting two
complete poems, their
lines at first presented
separately as a still,
expectant chorale and a
jubilant dance, then
progressively interwoven
toward a fervent climax
before once again
receding into quiet. In
the bleak mid-winter,
which sets a highly
compressed version of
Rossetti's original poem,
presents an enfeebled
landscape frozen in time,
in dire need of
deliverance. A gentle
melody weaves its way
through static drones,
broken by an angels'
chorus announcing the joy
to come. Love Came Down
at Christmas ends the
waiting, with its gently
falling, overlapping
lines building to a final
revelation, the mystery
of Christmas at last made
real.
