SSATB choir, divisi, piano reduction - Advanced

SKU: GI.G-9610

Composed by Peter Relph. Evoking Sound. Music Education. 20 pages. GIA Publications #9610. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-9610).

UPC: 785147961000. Latin. Text Source: Attr. Ambrose of Milan, 340–397. Text by Ambrose of Milan.

Composer's Notes When I met Kelsey Rose in Oxford in St. Stephen’s House chapel over the summer of 2017, we had both just attended a very moving candlelit concert by Westminster Williamson Voices, featuring my setting of “Tenebrae lumini.” I was delighted to be asked to write a piece for compline in Princeton University Chapel, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Anglican/Episcopal chaplaincy at Princeton University. “Aurora” is the result of that meeting. Composing by commission often throws up some interesting challenges. The piece had to fit both as an accompanying piece to the plainchant of compline, whilst simultaneously being a celebratory anthem. I was instantly drawn back to the poetry and hymns of St. Ambrose of Milan, particularly “Aurora iam spargit polum.” Fragments of chant (both real and imagined) are used to create the powerful imagery of the descending golden light of dawn. The piece reaches its climax with the plea for the despair of night to “vanish,” which it then does, leaving the sopranos alone on a high G.

SSATB choir

SKU: CA.7020048

Aus: Vierzehn Choralbearbeitungen. Composed by Claudin de Sermisy and Max Reger. Choral collections; Hymns by Martin Luther: Die beste Zeit. German title: Was Mein Gott Will, Das Gscheh Allzeit. Full score. Composed 1900. Op. 79f. 2 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 70.200/48. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.7020048).

ISBN 9790007228835. Key: C minor. Language: German. Text: Gerhardt, Paul. Text: Paul Gerhardt.

With alternative text Was mein Gott will. Score available separately - see item CA.7020000.

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924500

Composed by Hugo Wolf. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Secular choral music. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.245/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924500).

ISBN 9790007244408. Key: E flat major. Language: German. Text: Morike, Eduard.

Hugo Wolf composed over 250 songs to texts by the greatest poets of his day. One of the best-known of these is Verborgenheit. In Denis Rouger's arrangement it reveals its own momentum which does not conflict with the original masterpiece, but presents new facets alongside it, inviting us to discover something new in the old. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).