The sweeping melody line of Across The Vast Eternal Sky blends smoothly with a sense of symphonic chorale. The Silvestri text begins with the last words in Gjeilo's 2011 Tundra 'here painting a world of light'. An excellent centerpiece work for high school and beyond and a sure crowd pleaser! This Vocal Score includes a Piano reduction of the String Quartet parts. String quartet score and parts available separately (HL00117662).Watch the Central Washington University Choir perform this amazing piece here:

Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. ?Friede auf Erden? op. 13 is regarded as Arnold Schoenberg?s last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. On the same day that he completed his op. 13, Schoenberg made the first sketches for his 2nd String Quartet, a key work in atonal music. Although Schoenberg later orchestrated ?Friede auf Erden?, he intended the piece to be performed unaccompanied.To help rehearsing the work, this choral score contains the piano transcription made by Anton Webern for use in rehearsals for the planned first performance. The text for op. 13 is a secular Christmas poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. At the time of its composition (1907), Schoenberg thought the vision of a ?reine Harmonie unter Menschen? (pure harmony amongst people) described in the poem was conceivable, but he later distanced himself from this idea. What remained is a composition of great artistic power and depth ? a real showpiece for ambitious choirs! / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Répertoire / SSAATTBB A Cappella

Within much of her work Judith Weir has tried to portray the sky stars and planets in her music and the Moon and Star follows the same path. This work based on poetry by Emily Dickinson uses the text to actas a philisophical motto to the music itself choral voices are used a source of textual richness and produce wide harmonic paragraphs.The orchestra is used to display musical height and distance with a mix of triple woodwind 4 trumpets and high violins. The composition is 15 minutes long. Work for SSAATTBB Choir and Orchestra. Commissioned by the BBC Promenade Concerts and premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in August 1995.