SKU: AP.MBM03001C
UPC: 654979053279. English. Words by Linda Creed.
This poignant ballad made famous by Whitney Houston is now a spectacular closer. Victor López serves up a tasty combination of solos, duets, colorful harmonies, and a thrilling up ending. Beautiful!
SKU: TM.07275SET
Piano only - no score. Keller's American Hymn, Maryland My Maryland, Old Zip Coon, Bonny Eloise, Reveille, Tenting Tonight, Dixie, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, High Level Hornpipe, Massa's in the Cold Ground, Arkansas Traveler, Star Spangles Banner.
SKU: HL.14008415
UPC: 884088808242. 8.5x11.0x0.261 inches.
This work, written by Maxwell Davies in 1983 for chamber orchestra, was commissioned to celebrate the quartercentenary of Edinburgh University. The first performance was given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edward Harper in October 1983. Duration c. 29mins. This work was thought through in outline following a visit to the ruined pre-Reformation church of Hoy in Orkney, on a fine Spring afternoon after Maxwell Davies had played the harmonium for the tiny congregation in its large bleak Victorian replacement. The old church was surrounded by the graves of centuries, the more recent ones with familiar names, largely of people who lived in houses now ruinous - crofters, fishermen, clerics, sea-captains. Next to it stood the chief farmhouse, the Bu, going back to Viking times. He thought of the lives and deaths encompassed there, expressed through hundreds of years of music in the church, and in the big barn of the farm. The plainsongs 'Dies Irae' and 'Victimae Paschali Laudes' are used throughout the work - the first concerning the Day of Judgement, from the Mass for the Dead, the second particular to Easter Sunday and the Resurrection. These are subject to constant transformation - the intervallic contour slowly changes from one into the other, and their notes are made to dance through Renaissance astrological 'magic square' patterns. The orchestra consists of double woodwind, two horns, two trumpets and strings.
SKU: MN.56-0050
UPC: 688670220531. English.
Arranged for SATB choir, two keyboards, strings, and optional harp, with soprano, tenor (optional) and baritone soloists, this fresh and unorthodox interpretation reflects on the words of the Latin Mass by juxtaposing them with poems in English. This movement does not use an English text, however. The Latin text is from a motet for the feast of Michael the Archangel and describes his victory over a dragon. Despite its chant-like setting, there is great energy and urgency, with the organ punctuating and adding to the rhythmic drive in many spots. Duration 2:30.
SKU: HL.48024525
ISBN 9781784544072. UPC: 888680925680. 7.0x10.5x0.212 inches.
The Death of Oscar (2012) is a miniature tone poem drawing upon the legend of the bardic poet Ossian and the death of his son Oscar. In the legends of Ossian, Oscar challenged the High King Cairbre to single combat and, though victorious, died of his wounds and was mourned by his father and lover. These tales collected by James MacPherson in the 18th century have long been debated as regards their authenticity, but what is not in doubt is the massive influence they had on perceptions of Scottish and Celtic culture, particularly overseas - admired by political figures such as Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson and inspiring Romantic artists from Mendelssohn in Fingal's Cave to Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werther.
