Nightsong

SKU: OU.9780193361720

ISBN 9780193361720. 12 x 8 inches.

For piano quartet (violin, viola, cello, piano). Nightsongs is a hauntingly atmospheric response to the famous and magically beautiful gardens at Ninfa, created a century or so ago around the remains of an ancient settlement southeast of Rome.

SKU: CA.4081120

ISBN 9790007078157. Key: D minor. Language: German. Text: Stieglitz, Heinrich Wilhelm. Text: H. Stieglitz.

Based on the Allegretto from the 7th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven.

SKU: GI.G-008520

A complete and accessible setting for Evening Prayer by one of the most well-known composers of Catholic ritual music. Includes Introductory Rites, Hymn: Heal Us, Lord, Let My Prayer Rise Like Incense (Psalm 141), Happy the People (Psalm 33), Mary's Canticle, Intercessions, Lord's Prayer.

SKU: PR.144407050

UPC: 680160655519. 9 x 12 inches.

Celebrating 30 years, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society commissioned a work of 20-25 minutes for violin and piano from James Primosch, University of Pennsylvania professor of music. Primosch had originally thought to create a new sonata, but what developed is more appropriately a set of five character pieces, two of which were directly inspired by poems. Five Poems was premiered in May, 2016, and Primosch's thoughts are recorded at his website: https://jamesprimosch.com/2016/05/10/five-poems-premiere/.
Upon receiving a commission from the Philadelphia Chamber MusicSociety for a violin and piano piece in honor of its 30th anniversary, myplan was to write a sonata, a term suggesting a relatively abstractdiscourse. But as the piece developed, the movements struck me ascharacter pieces rather than music employing a more “symphonic”approach. When specific poems started to attach themselves in my mindwith two of the movements, the overall title Five Poems became clear.The title of the second movement is a line from Susan Stewart’s“Descent”, which deals with Aeneas’s visit to the underworld. The musicis alternately fiercely driving and quite still, though tense. RobertFrost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay summons fleet scale passages framinglyrical counterpoint. The remaining movements do not refer to specificpoems, but have titles reflecting their expressive tone. Dreamscape ismusing with an improvisatory violin line over shifting pairs of pianochords. Nightsong is a bluesy lullaby that turns highly dramatic.Vision begins with a closely argued struggle but breaks through tosomething spacious and clear.

SKU: HL.14062953

SKU: TM.02908SC

Chorus sold as separate T, T, B, B parts. Night Song in the Forest; German-J. G. Seidl.