PARTITIONS GRATUITES : QUATUOR DE FLûTES
- Hereford

(Hereford). Composed by Francis Jackson. Music Sales America. Sacred, Classical. 12 pages. Novello and Co Ltd. #NOV290541. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.

By Herbert Howells. For SATB Choir, Organ. 20th Century, Choral. Sheet Music. 64 pages. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.

SATB Choir, Orchestra (SATB)

SKU: HL.14005363

Composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Music Sales America. Classical. Part. Composed 2002. Chester Music #CH55437. Published by Chester Music (HL.14005363).

Composed in 1981, this work is a setting of a sequence from the Mass for the Feast of St Thomas, found in the missal of the Hereford use. The text is a conventional hymn of praise but it is distinguished by a lively and attractive rhythm, and as this rhythm would have been lost in translation, I have set it in the original Latin. The work is in the form of theme and variations and is characterised by a gradual crescendo throughout. It begins very quietly with solo timpani and then the choir sing the theme in unison, unaccompanied by flutes, bells, timpani and lower strings.

Choir

SKU: HL.14014821

Composed by Richard H. Lloyd. Music Sales America. Sacred. Book [Softcover]. 36 pages. Music Sales #NOV290660. Published by Music Sales (HL.14014821).

UPC: 884088449056. 6.75x9.75x0.096 inches.

Baritone voice & Piano

SKU: ST.Y329

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Five songs for baritone and piano to texts by Charles Hamilton Sorley. Vocal Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y329. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y329).

ISBN 9790220224553.

In her song-set for baritone and piano A Swift Radiant Morning, Rhian Samuel, a noted contemporary composer of English song, has created a portrait in words and music of the young poet Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915). Robert Graves described Sorley's death - at the Battle of Loos - as among the three most significant amongst poets in the First World War (the others being Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg). The five songs are 'Rooks', 'The Sounds of War', 'The Signpost', 'In Memoriam', and 'Earth's King'. The composer offers in the last song a celebration of Sorley's life, and a testament to his enduring legacy. A Swift Radiant Morning was commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival, Hereford, 2015, for a first performance by Roderick Williams, baritone, and Susie Allan, piano, at Holy Trinity Church, Hereford, on 25 July 2015.

CONTENTS
1 Rooks
2 The Sounds of War
3 The Signpost
4 In Memoriam
5 Earth's King.

SATB choir or Unison, or Solo & Piano

SKU: ST.D97

Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vocal Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #D97. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.D97).

ISBN 9790220222801.

Firs t published in 1920, the Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire have been entirely reset in a new and practical format, with the choral arrangements of the songs underlaid for all the verses and presented in open score alongside voice-and-keyboard versions for accompanied or solo performance. An acknowledged authority in the subject, Roy Palmer has provided fascinating notes on the texts and music. His preface places the collection in the context of Vaughan Williams's lifelong interest in folk song both as collector and creative artist, and of his collaboration with Ella Mary Leather, who did much to preserve the folklore heritage of her native county and of the gipsy tradition in particular. The Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire have been recorded by baritone Derek Welton and pianist Iain Burnside on Albion Records ALBCD013.