41 Chorales for Orchestra

Carl Orff's masterpiece composed in 1936 undoubtedly is one of the best-known musical creations throughout the world. By popular request, we now publish a comprehensive choral score uniting all choral parts in one volume of excellent quality and print. This choral score complements the hitherto available choral parts (ED 4920-01 and -02) presenting female and male voices in separate editions, as well as the piano score ED 2877. The new choral score makes rehearsing and studying this extraordinary work much easier for every singer and music lover.

Quatre Instants for Soprano and Orchestra is an arrangement of the composer's own Quatre Instants for Soprano and Piano and was commissioned by the Finnish Chamber Orchestra Association and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Thefirst performance took place at the Tammisaari Summer Concert Festival Finland in August 2003 given by Karita Mattila Soprano and conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

Work for SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Revised by Colin Matthews in 1973 in consultation with Imogen Holst. Words by Walt Whitman. / Scores

Description Full score of one of the most widely performed choral works in the repertoire. Songlist Requiem

Description One of the most frequently performed of all choral works, reprinted in the definitive German edition.

Par RUTTER JOHN. Une collection de 11 pièces de beaux et des plus populaires de John Rutter. Avec l'inclusion de tant de 'classiques' couvrant une variété éblouissante de textes, de styles et de notation, cette anthologie sera un ajout précieux à toute bibliothèque chorale. John Rutter est né à Londres en 1945 et a étudié la musique au Clare College, Cambridge. Ses compositions embrassent la musique chorale, orchestrale et instrumentale, et il a édité ou co-édité plusieurs anthologies chorale dont quatre pour des volumes de Carols chorales avec Sir David Willcocks et l'Oxford Choral Classics série. De 1975 à 1979, il a été directeur de la musique au Clare College, et en 1981 il a formé son propre choeur, les Cambridge Singers. Il partage maintenant son temps entre la composition et la conduite et est recherché comme un chef d'orchestre invité pour le leader mondial des chorales et orchestres. / Niveau : Très Facile à Moyennement Difficile / Recueil / Chant

This ?Suite' is not one of my 'epic' instrumental concertos such as the concertos for cello, violin or oboe, but a substantially smaller-structured series of dance forms arranged into a suite. Sunken worlds suddenly emerge here, only to reach the surface, hover in dangerously distorted fashion and then sink back to the bottom.Almost every individual movement allots the solo flute a specific tonal colouring and an instrumental group from the orchestra: in the opening Allemande, the flutes of the orchestra (including alto and bass flute and later also piccolo to include the entire flute family) - the string section in the Sarabande - in both chorales (extremely muted in the first and brutalist in the second), the brass etc. - and it is only in the concluding Badinerie that all orchestral groups are combined, although they are terraced in the Baroque style, one following another, seldom all playing simultaneously.This permits the flute to remain the provider of all impulses - it attaches itself to the wide variety of instrumental colours, becomes suffused with these colours and thereby shines in different lights - acerbic, pale and radiant. This first performance marks the conclusion of my two-year residence with the Cleveland Orchestra. The immense versatility of this fine body of sound (which is indeed treated as such with the sum of its parts) and the exciting dark timbre of its principal flautist Joshua Smith have to a great extent determined the form and tonal character of my Flûte en suite. Jörg Widmann / Flûte Et Orchestre