L'Enfant Mourant (The Dying Child) by Jakob Lorentzen. For equal voices (SSA SSA SSA) Harp (or Piano) and Dabachi (or Triangle). Text by Hans Christian Andersen. Commissioned by the 8th World Symposium on Choral Music. Premiered July 21 2008 at Operaen Copenhagen byNorwegian Women’s Choir VOCI NOBILI conducted by Maria Gamborg Helbekkmo.  Programme Note Hans Christian Andersen wrote the poem Det døende Barn (The Dying Child) in 1826 when he was at school in Elsinore where he had a hard time living in the severeheadmaster Simon Meisling’s home. His host had forbidden him to write poetry – the pupil should not waste time on such nonsense! However H.C. Andersen wrote this sentimental poem. He simply could notresist the urge to read it aloud. The qualities of the poem were soon recognized and a new way of writing had begun: It had never happened before that the child was the narrator in a poem!The committee behind The 8th World Symposium on Choral Music has suggested a choice of texts to be song by many choirs from all around the world. Hence I have asked Bendt Deegen to translate the poem into French.

Eric Harding Thiman the organist and composer died in London on February 13; he was 74. His musical training was with private teachers; he gained his FRCO in 1921 and became MusD (London) in 1927. From 1930 he was professor of harmony at the RAM and from 1956 to 1962 was dean of the faculty of music at London University. He was conductor of the Elysian Concert Society and Purley Choral Society and had been organist and choirmaster at the City Temple since 1957. A keen advocate of congregational singing he contributed an article on his methods to W. T. Whiteleyâ??s Congregational Hymn-singing in England and was chairman of the music committee of Congregational Praise. Hiscompositions include cantatas anthems and services.

Along with many other great American composers drawn from all musical genres Philip Glass was commissioned by the 1984 Olympic Committee to write a work for performance at the spectacular opening ceremony of the Games in LosAngeles that summer.Originally scored for orchestra and voices The Olympian - Lighting of the Torch was among the more memorable and original contributions. It is nowavailable for the first time in the composer’s own arrangement for Piano or Keyboard.

The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score published in this catalog in 2002 (PR 1362). Although it is not possible to establish with certainty the time and the occasion for which it was composed - between the end of 1716 and beginning of 1717 - the Gloria RV 589 is the best known among the works Vivaldi wrote on this subject, enough to be considered the Gloria by Vivaldi. The critical edition is based on the only source available, the autograph full score now kept at the National University Library of Turin, Codex Giordano 32. It restores the famous Vivaldi text based on the revised criteria by the Committee of the Critical Edition. The volume includes a synthetic introduction of the historical context and a choice of the critical Notes to the musical text. / Voix Et Piano

Following the publication of Francis Jackson's organ reduction of Finzi's Requiem da Camera in 2014, Robert Gower, chairman of the Finzi Trust, recitalist and organist of Nottingham Cathedral, has created reductions of the full orchestra accompaniments to two more of Finzi's choral works. These reductions broaden the reach of these works to choirs which do not wish to present the works with orchestra, as with other standards from the sacred repertoire such the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé. The reductions sympathetically recreate the orchestra scoring for a three-manual organ. Ingeniously, the manual couplings (II to III, II and III to I) are unaltered throughout, with pedal coupled to manuals as appropriate. Detailed registrations are not indicated as these are best left to the performer, taking into account the unique circumstances of the particular instrument, size of choir and acoustic setting at each performance. The scores are user-friendly, in landscape format and with at least one principal vocal line cued throughout, and a cappella choral passages are reproduced in full. The reductions are fully compatible with the published piano vocal scores of the respective works which the singers will use. For St Cecilia, Ceremonial Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra - words by Edmund Blunden. The original work was commissioned by the St Cecilia's Day Festival Committee for the 1947 celebration of music's patron saint. The ceremonial mood is established with fanfares, and the sonorous sweep of the choral writing reflects Finzi's admiration for Parry and Elgar. The 'catalogue' of saints, shared between the soloist and chorus, are deftly delineated: St Valentine, St George, St Dunstan, St Swithin and St Cecilia herself. In rapt stillness, the English composers of the past - Merbecke, Byrd, Dowland and Purcell - are summoned. To close, Finzi creates a festal summation with exultant counterpoint and the saint's name pealing around the chorus. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orchestre

The revised edition for Suzuki Violin School, Volume 8 is now available. Like the other revised violin books, the music has been edited by the International Violin Committee. Other features include: New engravings in a more easily readable 9 x 12 format * New editing of pieces, including bowings and fingerings * Newly edited piano accompaniment * CD recorded by William Preucil, Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra * Piano accompaniments recorded by Linda Perry. Titles: Sonata No. 11 in G Minor (Eccles) * Tambourin (Grétry) * Largo from Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 (Bach) * Preludio from Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1023 (Bach) * Allegro from Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1023 (Bach) * Largo Espressivo (Pugnani) * Sonata in E Minor (Veracini).

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Commissioned by the Japan Band Clinic Committee of Yamaha for the Nemu Band Directors Clinic in Nemu no Sato, May 18-20, 1997. The surprising title of this work is an indication of its content. By combining the somewhat similar names ‘Nemu no Sato’ and ‘Susato’ into a new word, Jan Van der Roost has produced a significant and interesting subject. The Yamaha corporation has extensive facilities in Nemu no Sato, Japan, including a concert hall, recording studios, hotel and so on. Concerts, workshops, clinics and other events are held here, including the annual Nemu Band Directors Clinic, which consists of numerous musical events. Jan Van der Roost served as guest conductor andspeaker in 1994. He was invited again for the 1997 clinic, this time with a composition assignment. The difficulty level of his new piece was to be Grade 2 - 3 bands. With this in mind, Mr. Van der Roost strove to create a renaissance-like sound. Simultaneously he wished to create a tribute to Tielman Susato who, like Jan Van der Roost, lived and worked in Antwerp in the 16th century. The first performance of Nemu-Susato was conducted by the composer, performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Band, and took place during the Nemu Band Directors Clinic on May 19, 1997. / Niveau : 3 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

The revised edition for Suzuki Violin School, Volume 7 is now available. Like the other revised violin books, the music has been edited by the International Violin Committee. Features include: New engravings in a more easily readable 9' x 12' format * New editing of pieces, including bowings and fingerings * Newly edited piano accompaniment * CD recorded by William Preucil, Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra * Piano accompaniments recorded by Linda Perry. / Violon

JBC Band Method Tuba. English version of the most popular band method edited by Japan Band Clinic Committee. The concept of this method is to provide support "from producing sound to musical expression". It covers everything from individual practice and band ensemble to analysis of music performance and will be helpful for all band directors around the world who teach their students.; Study I: Basic knowledge and individual basikc training; Study II: Making sound ind the band and understanding the music; Study III: Making music.

The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski L. Bronarski and J. Turczynski. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts copies approved by him and first editions. The principal aim of the Editorial Committee has been to establish a text which fully reveals Chopin's thoughts and corresponds to his intentions as closely as possible. The full version of this edition includes 21 volumes.Contents:Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - A Young Girl's Wish Op. 74 No. 1 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - Spring Song Op. 74 No.2 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan- Sad River Op. 74 No.3 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - A Drinking Song Op. 74 No.4 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - A Girl's Desire Op. 74 No. 5 Chopin Fryderyk Mickiewicz Adam - Out of My Sight Op. 74 No. 6 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - The Messenger Op. 74 No. 7 Chopin Fryderyk Zaleski Bohdan - The Handsome Lad Op. 74 No. 8 Chopin Fryderyk Krasinski Zygmunt - Elegy Op. 74 No. 9 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - The Warrior Op. 74 No. 10 Chopin Fryderyk Zaleski Bohdan - Death's Divisions Op. 74 No. 11 Chopin Fryderyk Mickiewicz Adam - My Sweetheart Op. 74 No. 12 Chopin Fryderyk Zaleski Bohdan - Faded and Vanished Op. 74 No. 13 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - The Ring Op. 74 No. 14 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - The Betrothed Op. 74 No. 15 Chopin Fryderyk Osinski Ludwik - A Lithuanian Song Op. 74 No. 16 Chopin Fryderyk Pol Wincenty - Leaves Are Falling Op. 74 No. 17 Chopin Fryderyk Witwicki Stefan - Witchcraft Chopin Fryderyk Zaleski Bohdan - Song

Par BUKIN DANIEL. Concerto for Clarinet 'Corona', reduction for Clarinet and Piano, by Daniel Bukin. Recognized as the Honorable Mention composition by the New Music Committee of the International Clarinet Association as part of the 2022 Composition Competition .From the composer: '2020 was a year of colossal uncertainty and instability in nearly every facet of our day-to-day lives. But that uncertainty hit performing artists the hardest because it effectively shut down our professional lives entirely. As the year went on, I quickly found that I had to cope in a creative way with all the strange and powerful emotions that each new uncertainty brought. And this piece, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, was the result of such mental self-care.' In five movements: Everything Changes, Isolation, Outrage at 45, In Memoriam, and The Endless Anxiety. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Clarinette et Piano

The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczyń.ski. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts, copies approved by him and first editions. The principal aim of the Editorial Committee has been to establish a text which fully reveals Chopin's thoughts and corresponds to his intentions as closely as possible. The full version of this edition includes 21 volumes.
- Impromptu A flat major, Op. 29
- Impromptu F sharp major, Op. 36
- Impromptu G flat major, Op. 51
- Impromptu C sharp minor, Op. posth. (66)