SKU: HL.14018852

ISBN 9780853609308.

Piano duet score. 1st performance Ellesmere College, January 1986 by Richard Markham and David Nettle. Duration c.24 minutes. The work is in three movements and the musical thought is symphonic. The first movement (based entirely on the opening motive) goes through a series of paragraphs which eventually culminate in an extended melodic line played entirely by the treble player. The middle movement is a playful Scherzo with a rather sardonic waltz for its Trio. The slow movement (which comes last) is much more relaxed and concentrates on a D major motive with sharpened fourths, but the more intense moods of the first movement return in a suddenly impassioned middle section.

SKU: HL.14018850

ISBN 9780711986008. 9.0x12.0x0.295 inches.

The Prelude, Hymn And Toccata 1987 is dedicated to, and was commissioned by the Nettle-Markham Piano Duo. It was the second work to have been written for them by the composer, the first being the Sonata For Piano Duet Op.92. This twenty minute work begins with Leighton's typical preludial double-dotted rhythms and contrapuntal textures; it develops into dark, passionate music and erupts into single and double cadenzas. The gentle Hymn is ushered in quietly and unfolds in long, rhapsodic sections, building up to more climactic cadenzas before dissolving gradually to an ethereal conclusion. The Toccata finale shows Leighton's masterly piano writing and contrasts biting, rhythmic motifs with sweeping, yearning elegiac phrases.

SKU: HL.14032953

6.75x9.75x0.07 inches.

1964 setting for Soprano and Baritone Soloists, SATB Choir and Organ.

SKU: HL.14007174

UPC: 520679169759. 8.0x12.0x0.235 inches.

Composed mainly during the summer of 1978, and commissioned by the John Currie Singers (with Arts Council funds) this work was first performed in Glasgow in early 1979, and has since been given in Canada and the USA. It is a setting of quite large sections of the Song of Songs and the authorised version was chosen not because of its accuracy, which is often doubtful, but because of the beauty of the language and the power of its associations.

SKU: HL.49019385

ISBN 9783795746681.

Dieser Band enthält die beliebtesten Weihnachtslieder in sehr leichten Bearbeitungen, die bereits von Anfängern gut zu bewältigen sind. Die Auswahl der Lieder reicht vom traditionellen deutschen Weihnachtslied bis hin zu internationalen Melodien. Alle Lieder können mit einer oder zwei Querflöten gespielt werden. Auf der beigefügten CD ist jedes Lied in 2 Versionen eingespielt: sowohl mit als auch ohne Flöten; zu beiden Fassungen kann man selbst mitspielen. Aus dem Inhalt: Alle Jahre wieder, Fröhliche Weihnacht überall, Leise rieselt der Schnee, Stille Nacht, Wir sagen euch an, Jingle Bells, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, Winter Wonderland u.v.m.

SKU: HL.14021349

ISBN 9780853609414.

This work was commissioned by Barnes Music Club and first performed by Frances Mason and Ashley Lawrence on 25 October 1966. Duration: c. 19 minutes.

SKU: HL.14017504

6.75x9.75x0.092 inches.

Anthem, set to text from the Revelation of St John, for Baritone Solo, SATB Choir and Organ. Commissioned for the 50th Anniversary of St Nicholas Church, Coventry in 1962.