Psalm Variations

SKU: GI.G-003107

Scripture: Psalm 27, Psalm 47, Psalm 63, Psalm 66, Psalm 91, Psalm 104, Psalm 116, Psalm 146.

Ed Eicker’s second offering to this series consists of eight pieces for solo piano. Psalm 27’s joyful theme is varied by several key changes. Psalm 47 is an exuberant, rhythmic prelude reminiscent of Copeland’s “Hoedown”. Psalm 63 is a passacaglia-a theme and variations over an ostinato bass. Psalm 66 is in 8/8 meter, but has accents on beats 1, 4, and 7, giving the accompaniment a playful feel. Psalm 91 begins with an expressive minor theme, which briefly changes to major before returning to a pleading tone. Psalm 104’s sparse melody is heightened with tempo changes and fermatas. Psalm 116’s theme is expressive and pleading. Psalm 146 is set in a swinging gospel style.    .

SKU: MN.10-881

UPC: 688670108815. Scripture: Psalms 150.

Subtitled: An Introduction to the Families of Organ Tone. Unique set of six variations on TERRA BEATA, demonstrates all families of organ pipe sounds with each one simultaneously reflecting a verse from Psalm 150. Ideal for introducing young people to organ. Teaching or service use. Tune name: TERRA BEATA (TERRA PATRIS).

SKU: HL.49044685

ISBN 9790001199704. German.

Albrecht Haaf ging bereits mehrfach als Preistrager aus verschiedensten Kompositionswettbewerben hervor. So auch mit seinem geistlichen Chorwerk Herr, Herr, lehre uns! fur gemischten Chor (SSATB), Orgel und zwei Schlagzeuger, fur das er 2012 mit dem Carl von Ossietzky-Kompositionspreis der Universitat Oldenburg ausgezeichnet wurde. Der Untertitel lautet 'Variation uber Psalm 150'.Variation deshalb, weil im Anschluss an den wortlich dem Bibeltext entnommenen Lobpreis Gottes die 'Unloblichkeit des Menschen Werk' in ihrer unterschiedlichsten Auspragung auf musikalisch und textlich drastische Weise angeprangert wird.Haaf, der dieses aufruttelnde Textarrangement selbst verfasste, bedient sich dafur kompositorisch zahlreicher Taktwechsel und Clustertechniken und nutzt meisterhaft das Spiel mit verschiedenen Klangfarben. Dieses Werk stellt nicht nur an den Organisten und die beiden Schlagzeuger, die u.a. vier Rohrenglocken, drei Tomtoms, Pauken und Triangel zu bedienen haben, hohe Anforderungen. Auch die funfstimmige Chorpartie dieses unter die Haut gehenden Stucks ist als 'schwer bis mittelschwer' einzuordnen. Doch der Aufwand lohnt sich versprochen!

SKU: GI.G-5905

English. Text Source: Ref.: The Jesus Prayer, vv. 1–3: Psalm 51, v. 4: Agnus Dei, adapt. Carol Browning. Text by Carol Browning. Scripture: Psalm 51.

Using “The Jesus Prayer” for the ostinato refrain, Browning offers this piece in the manner of the music of Taizé. Several verses are available to superimpose over the ostinato. The refrain appears in a 4-part version and a 2-part version. Keyboard variations are also provided.

The Jesus Prayer and Psalm 51 in the style of Taize.

SKU: ST.K48

ISBN 9790220224454.

Complementary to K49, this collection is a unique offering of music by John Amner, Nicholas Carleton and John Tomkins that is the only surviving keyboard music by the respective composers. In addition to a pair of duets, in themselves an unusual feature from the period, there are two lengthy sets of variations, Amner's being a rare example of those on a metrical psalm or hymn-tune (possibly by Tallis in this case), John Tomkins's being more conventionally modelled on the variation sets of William Byrd. Nicholas Carleton's 'A verse of 4 parts' and 'Upon the sharp' include several examples of unusual chromatic notation and wide-ranging tonal schemes.

CONTENTS
Prelude (for two to play): Nicholas Carleton?
A verse (In nomine) for two to play: Nicholas Carleton
A verse of 4 parts: Nicholas Carleton
Upon the sharp: Nicholas Carleton
O Lord, in thee is all my trust: John Amner
John come kiss me now: John Tomkins.

SKU: HL.48024880

ISBN 9781784545154. UPC: 840126918670. 7.25x10.25x0.319 inches.

This publication presents under one cover various short works for sundry orchestral scorings. Larghetto for Orchestra is MacMillan's orchestration (2017) of his celebrated Miserere for a cappella mixed choir (2009), a setting in Latin of Psalm 51, 'Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy great mercy', the penitential text famously set in the 17th century by Gregorio Allegri. The Larghetto orchestration was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Manfred Honeck's 10th Anniversary as Music Director. Memoire imperiale is one of a number of variations on General John Reids march tune Old Gaul commissioned from Scottish composers to mark the centenary in 1994 of the Faculty of Music at Edinburgh University. The Faculty was established following a bequest by General Reid (1721-1807), a former law student at the University and a renowned flute player and composer of marches for the BritishArmy, and he asked that an annual concert be organised at which one or more of his compositions be played. Composed in 2012 for the Britten Sinfonia, One is a monody in which a single line is passed around the instruments, painting it with different colours as it emerges and develops. Lasting only a few minutes, its singularity is maintained until blossoming in the lastfew bars. For Sonny (2011, orch 2013) and Ein Lamplein verlosch (2018, orch 2019) are short, private memorial tributes originally for string quartet and here rescored for string orchestra. Hirta was composed in 2016 as part of Deccas The Lost Songs of St Kilda project. Nearly a century ago, the last 36 residents were evacuated from the most remote part of the British Isles, St Kilda, an isolated archipelago off the beautiful and rugged western coast of Scotland. After 86 years, the music of St Kilda was rediscovered, recorded in a Scottish care home by Trevor Morrison, an elderly man who had been taught piano by an inhabitant of St Kilda. The songs were 'reimagined' for the Decca album by various.