SKU: HL.49018365
ISBN 9790220132407. UPC: 884088601270. 8.25x11.75x0.241 inches. English - French - German.
Recently awarded a British Composer Award, Ryan Wigglesworth's orchestral song cycle 'Augenlieder' is now available as a study score. Setting poems by Robert Browning, Egon Schiele, Arthur Rimbaud and John Berryman, Augenlieder or Eye Songs was described as 'glittering with skill' by Geoff Brown in the Times. Masterfully orchestrated and with beautiful vocal writing, Wigglesworth is a composer to watch out for in the future.Keep your eyes open when you kiss, a sonnet by John Berryman ends this evocative and rich song cycle, premiered by Claire Booth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer at the Barbican Hall, London in November 2009. Geoff Brown in The Times describes Ryan Wigglesworth as having a 'bright ear for glinting textures, [a] flair for taut motivic interplay [and] his conjuror's ability to cast a spell. This is a strong new work.' The Sonnet depicts a five month love affair and is set alongside a little known poem by Egon Schiele Visionen and poems by Robert Browning and Arthur Rimbaud.
SKU: PR.11640976L
UPC: 680160682775. Das Stundenbuch.
This cycle of orchestral songs sets four poems from an early collection by Rilke entitled Das Stundenbuch, or in English, Book of Hours. Although the title refers to a medieval book of prayers for the various times of day and seasons of the liturgical year, Rilke's texts occupy a position some distance from conventional piety. There is a melancholy to the spirituality expressed here, which speaks of an experience of God that is fragmentary, imperfect, and unattainable. The solitude evoked in the second song (as layers of busy activity are gradually peeled away) offers some solace, but the third song is very dark and fierce, filled with a desperate, even manic desire for God. The last song returns to the mood of the first, but now in a global rather than individual context. This song, like the set as a whole, speaks of our world's brokenness, yet strives to stammer fragments of God's name.
SKU: PR.416413890
UPC: 680160607891. German. Poems by Nelly Sachs. Poems by Nelly Sachs.
2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, Harp, Piano/Celesta, Timpani, Percussion (1 player), Strings, Soprano Solo.
SKU: PR.41641389L
UPC: 680160607907. German. Poems by Nelly Sachs. Poems by Nelly Sachs.
SKU: PR.41641275L
UPC: 680160591282. 11 x 14 inches. Text used by permission of the publisher. THE RUBA’IYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM translation by Peter Avery & John Heath-Stubbs (Allen Lane, THE PENGUIN PRESS, 1979.
SKU: HL.14043242
ISBN 9788759826447. 12.0x16.5x0.53 inches. English.
Hans Abrahamsen 's 2012-2013 piece Let Me Tell You for Soprano and Orchestra. The piece incorporates text by Paul Griffiths, taken from his 2008 novel of the same name.
SKU: HL.49019435
ISBN 9783795772420. UPC: 841886019386. 6.0x8.75x0.226 inches. German.
Even if Schumann falls back on the hymnbook when choosing the text of his 'Adventlied' (Advent Song), the composition was probably politically motivated and, still under the impressions of the revolutionary years of 1848/49, owed to the longing for peace. The 'Adventlied' (Advent Song), like the 'Neujahrslied' (New Year's Song), is 'a strange mixed genre between sociable, covertly political and religious chant'.
SKU: HL.14048266
UPC: 888680684143. 8.25x11.75 inches. English.
Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. All four texts are short parables about natural life as lived by different species, human and animal. A full performance of this work lasts around 17 minutes. This is the Vocal Score.
SKU: HL.14043332
ISBN 9788759885291. 8.25x11.75x0.233 inches. English.
Soprano with piano reduction. Text by Paul Griffiths. Spiral bound.
SKU: LM.26708
ISBN 9790230967082.
