SKU: GI.G-9140

SKU: HL.1283364

UPC: 196288166641.

Dedic ation for chamber orchestra by William Bolcom was written in 2021-2022, especially for the ROCO Chamber Orchestra. The commission was the result of a meeting between Alecia Lawyer and the composer at a Great American Songbook concert, hosted by Arthurand Shelley Gottschalk. Dedication is a concise but dramatic work. Its threepart is determined by tempo and motif. The work begins with Intro: Moderato. After a very soft ostinato sounds from the depths of the orchestra, two melodies emerge: the first in the Piccolo and Eb Clarinet, the second in the English Horn and Bassoon. They are complemented by strings in close harmony and lyrical muted brass. This is followed by Feroce! which engages the tutti ensemble in a cascade of brilliant fortissimo block harmonies. The next section, Allegro molto, is characterized by agile, virtuosic passage work and brash chords. Tempo I returns with familiar motifs wrapped in six sharps. Marked espressivo e cantabile, tutti strings provide an incandescent conclusion. Then soft string glissandi allow the music to fade back from wherever it came. Dedication is orchestrated by his former student Edmund Cionek.

SKU: ST.EM5

ISBN 9790220206849.

Gibb ons seems to have been outside the process 'by which', wrote Joseph Kerman in The Elizabethan Madrigal, 'England first became sophisticated in the ways of Continental music.' These 20 pieces certainly, if differently, follow the pure line of William Byrd and are still of the old 'English' school. They include The Silver Swan and Dainty Fine Bird.

CONTENTS
Ah dear heart (SAA (or T) A (or T) B)
Dainty fine bird (SST (or A) TB)
Fair is the rose (SA (or S) ATB)
Fair ladies that to love (SSAT (or A) B)
Farewell all joys (SSA (or T) A (or T) B)
How art thou thralled (SS (or A) TTB)
I feign not friendship (SSAT (or A) B)
I see Ambition never pleased (SSATB)
I tremble not at noise of war (SSAT (or A) B)
I weigh not fortuneAs frown (SSAT (or A) B)
Lais now old (SATT (or A) B)
Mongst thousands good (SSAT (or A) B)
Nay let me weep (SA (or S) T (or A) T (or A) B)
NeAer let the sun (SAT (or A) TB)
Now each flowery bank of May (SST (or A) TB)
O that the learned poets (SSA (or T) B ( or T) B)
Silver Swan, The (SSA (or T) B (or T) B)
Trust not too much fair youth (SST (or A) TB)
What is our life? (SAA (or T) TB)
Yet if that age (SS (or A) T (or A) TB).

SKU: ST.EM35B

ISBN 9790220211652.

Orga nist of St George's, Windsor, and successor to the famous Marbecke, Mundy was amongst the earliest of the English madrigalists. There are 12 madrigals in this collection, ranging from Of all the birds, a tribute to William Byrd, to In deep distress and the tragic setting of words written by Chideock Tichborne on the eve of his execution in the Tower of London, My prime of youth. The volume also contains 25 psalms in three, four, and five parts.

CONTENTS
As I went walking (SAT)
Blessed art thou (SAT)
Have mercy on me, O Lord (SSATB)
Hear my prayer, O Lord (STB)
Heigh Ho! 'chill go to plough (SSAB)
I lift my heart to thee (SSAT)
In deep distress (SATB)
In midst of woods (SSATB)
Lightly she whipped o'er the dales (SSATB)
Lord arise and help thy servant (SSATB)
Lord to thee I make my moan (SATB)
My prime of youth (SATB)
O all ye nations (S (or A) AT)
O come let us lift up our voice (SAT)
O Lord of whom I do depend (SSAT)
O Lord turn not away thy face (SAT)
Of all the birds (SAT)
Penelope that longed (SSATB)
Praise the Lord, O my soul (SAT)
Save me, O God (SAT)
Sing ye unto the Lord (SSAT)
The black-bird made (SSATB)
The longer that I live (SSAT)
The Shepherd Stephon (S solo, A. viol, T. viol, B. viol)
Thus art thou bless'd (SAT)
Turn about and see me (SA (or T) T)
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes (SSATB)
Were I a king (SATBB)
Who loves a life (SSATB)
Witness ye heav'ns (S solo, A. viol, T. viol, B. viol)
Ye people all in one accord (SAB).