Long Long Ago
SKU: HL.256461
UPC: 840126949346. 8.5x11.0x0.05 inches.
Contemporar y American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who, at 32, is the youngest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His oeuvre includes two operas and many solo pieces and works for small ensemble, Orchestra and Chorus. Muhly has collaborated widely. This Choral work manifests some influences of Phillip Glass, for whom he has previously worked. Like As The Hart is Muhly's response to Herbert Howells's setting of the psalm, though in this version elongated harmonies 'drag' melodic fragments behind them.
SKU: BT.MUSTH978753
English.
A superb collection that brings together the finest British Piano music of the twentieth-century and features some of the greatest British composers of all time. These are all beautiful pieces that require little or no virtuositybut which demonstrate the rich treasure trove of this pastoral repertory. With comprehensive background notes to each of the ten pieces here, this is a fine book of fantastic and enjoyable pieces which any intermediate pianistwill enjoy.
SKU: ST.H449
ISBN 9790220221286.
A well-known teacher and compiler of Stainer & Bell's Opera Gala series, John Norris has created Wedding Gala with an ear to giving church organists a mix of favourites and exciting discoveries to brighten the routine of music for the service of holy matrimony. No album would be complete without the traditional wedding music of Mendelssohn and Wagner, and it can be found here in this collection alongside other classics of the wedding repertoire by Jeremiah Clarke, Bach and Handel. But there's also a thoroughly contemporary leavening, with arrangements of Sydney Carter's One More Step and Lord of the Dance, both firm favourites, plus Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Charpentier's Prelude, adding a note of splendour. But the real bonus is for lovers of English music, with Elgar's Chanson de Matin and 'The Call' from the Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, seldom found in comparable collections. And there's also a rare new discovery: the ravishing Chosen Tune by Herbert Howells, transcribed from his Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 28, and available as an organ piece for the first time. Each piece is comprehensively registered by the arranger, and the collection as a whole will be welcomed by all organists of intermediate standard as a source of new material not only for liturgical use but also for recitals.
