SKU: HL.49047362
ISBN 9798350124842. UPC: 196288207597.
The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti, who was a specialist in Bronzino and Pontormo. Bronzino's sonnet is a lament on the death of Pontormo, his teacher; Laura Battiferri's poem is a direct response to that of Bronzino. As I was also asked to set sonnets by Petrarca, I chose two of his closely linked sonnets, numbers 229 and 230 in the Rime Sparse. I had written a work for I Tatti some five years earlier setting Petrarca (??A qualunque animale?, the first in my Fourth Book of Madrigals) and was familiar with the context. However, through correspondence with Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian at I Tatti and, through her, Craig Smyth's family, I became increasingly aware of his unusual and quite special character. From his undergraduate days at Princeton and indeed throughout his life, although a great scholar and writer, he was at the same time an aficionado of jazz, loving above all Louis Armstrong, being photographed with Duke Ellington, taking his children to see Thelonious Monk, listening to Ben Webster and playing the tenor saxophone himself. Indeed, he had told Kathryn Bosi that he had been proud to walk in procession at the funerals of black musicians in New Orleans. In some ways his life was almost an obverse mirror image of parts of my own - I was a professional jazz musician but found myself teaching art history for a time. As Fiorella Superbi of I Tatti has said: Craig was a maestro di vita. I raise a glass in his memory and dedicate these sonnets to him. Gavin Bryars.
SKU: ST.EM7
ISBN 9790220218507.
CONTENTS A silly Sylvan (SSAAT) Ah cannot sighs, nor tears? (SSAAA (or T) B) Ah, cruel Amarillis (SST (or A)) All pleasure is of this condition (SSAT (or A) B) As fair as mourn (SAA (or T)) As matches beauty (S (or A) S (or A) TB) Change me, O heavAns (SSA (or T) B (or T)) Come shepherd swains (SSA (or T)) Despite thus unto myself (SSA (or T) A (or T) T (or B) B) Down in a valley (SSATB) Draw on sweet night (SSAA (or T) TB) Flourish ye hillocks (SST) Fly not so swift, my dear (SA (or S) A (or T) B (or T)) Happy streams whose trembling fall (SST (or A) T) Happy, oh happy he (SA (or S) A (or T) B) Hard destinies are love and beauty (SSATB) I live, and yet me thinks (S(or A) S(or A) T) I love, alas, yet am not loved (SSA (or T) B) Long have I made these hills (SSAATB) Love not me for comely grace (SAA (or T) T) O what shall I do? (SST (or A)) O wretched man (SSAT (or A) T (or B) B) Oft have I vowed (SSATB) So light is love (SSA (or T)) Softly, O softly, drop my eyes (SSAATB) Stay, Corydon, thou swain (SSATTB) Sweet honey sucking bees (SSAAB) There is a jewel (Risposta) (SST) There where I saw (SSATB) Weep, weep mine eyes (SSA (or T) TB) When Cloris heard of her Amyntas (S (or A) S (or A) A (or T) T) Where most my thoughts (SSA (or T) A (or T) T (or B) B) Ye that do live in pleasures (SSAA (or T) B) Yet, sweet take heed (SSAAB).
SKU: ST.EM19
ISBN 9790220223860.
CONTENTS A satyr once did run away (SSAT) Come, sable night (SSATTB) Die not, fond man (SSAA (or T) TB) Flora, fair nymph (SSAT (or A) B) Fly not so fast (SSA) Free from Love's bonds (SSA (or T) B) Go, wailing accents (SSA) His heart his wound received (SSA) Hope of my heart (SSATB) How long shall I? (SST (or A) B) I have entreated (SSAATB) If the deep sighs (SSATTB) In health and ease am I (SSA (or T)) Love is a dainty (SSAT) My true love hath my heart (SSA) O divine love (SSAA (or T) TB) O my thoughts, surcrease (SAA (or T) T (or B)) O say, dear life (SSA (or T)) Oft have I tender'd (SSAT (or A) TB) Out from the vale (SSAT (or A) BB) Phyllis, the bright (SSATB) Retire, my troubled soul (SSATBB) Sweet Philomel (SSATB) Sweet pity, wake (SST (or A) B) There's not a grove (SSAT (or A) TB) Upon a bank of roses (SSATB) Weep forth your tears (SSATTB) Ye sylvan nymphs (SSA (or T) T (or B) B).
SKU: HL.14011727
ISBN 9788759880678. 10.5x14.25x0.52 inches. Danish.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 's Four Madrigals From The Natural World for 6-12 part mixed chorus. This piece incorporates texts by Les Murray. ' FOUR MADRIGALS to texts by the Australian poet Les Murray are composed of two songs (Bats' Ultrasound and The Octave of Elephants) written for the Australian vocal group THE SONG COMPANY, and two songs (Cattle Egret and Comete) from my larger work SOUND / SIGHT, written for the Danish Radio Chamber Choir, but here arranged for six voices. The texts are pictures and situations from - or meditations over - THE NATURAL WORLD. Les Murray's way of approaching this world is not in the least sentimentalor nostalgic: the poems reveal a truebeing-out-there realism: so basically the approach is realistic, but the creating of form elevates the material to an abstractplay, a daring and exuberant poetic language. These poems asked to be set to music. I gave up old idiosyncrasies regarding descriptive music, and surrendered to the madrigal, with its special so-called madrigalisms, which entails also animal-imitations. You will hear this particulary inThe Octave of Elephants. ' - Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.
SKU: ST.EM26
ISBN 9790220212598.
CONTENTS Care for thy soul (SSATB) Chaste Daphne fled (SST (or A) B) Chaste Syrinx fled (SSA (or T) TB) Come shepherds' weeds (SSA (or T) TB) Coy Daphne fled (SST (or A) B) Crowned with flowers (SSAAB) Cruel Pabrilla (SSAT (or A) TB) Dear shepherdess (SSAATB) Drown not with tears (SSATB) Fancy for the Viols (SSAATB and Viol Sextet) Go, you skipping kids and fawns (SSATB) If she neglect me (SSA (or T) B) Maenalas in an evening (SSAB) O gracious God (SSATB) O praise the Lord (SSATTB) O softly-singing lute (SSAATB) Palaemon and his Sylvia (SSTB) Sovereign of my delight (SST) Stay, heart, run not so fast (SST) Surcrease, you faithful shepherdess (SSATB/Viol quintet/Lute) Wake, sleepy Thyrsis (SST) Weep, sad Urania (SS and string accompt.) Ye bubbling springs (SST) Yond hilltops Phoebus kissed (SST) You gentle Nymphs (SSA (or T) B) Your fond preferments (SST).
SKU: ST.B351
ISBN 9790220203084.
Of madrigals and partsongs, Volume 16 of the Byrd Edition contains the six items not included in the printed sets of 1588, 1589 and 1611 (distinguished by the lack of obligatory instrumental accompaniments); of the consort songs, the original versions of consort songs that were subsequently arranged as madrigals; and of canons and rounds, the two that can without doubt be attributed to the composer.
SKU: ST.EM35A
ISBN 9790220209796.
Jones was a famous lutenist and one of the musicians responsible for training the 'children of St Paul's', who acted and sang in Elizabethan and Jacobean court plays. His 16 madrigals are mostly to texts about birds - birds merry, sweet, shrill, crowing or melancholic. CONTENTS Are lovers full of fire? (SSAATBB) But let her look in mine (SST) Cock-a-doodle-doo (SS (or A) A (or T) B) Come, doleful owl (SSTTB) Fair Oriana seeming to wink (SSAATB) I come, sweet birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B) Love, if a god thou art (SST) O I do love (SST (or A)) She only is the pride (SSA) Shrill-sounding bird (SST (or A) B) Sing, merry birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B) Sweet, when thou singest (SSATB) The more I burn (SSAATTBB) Thine eyes so bright (SSA) When I behold her eyes (SST) Your presence breeds (SSAATB).
SKU: ST.EM27
ISBN 9790220203428.
A minor canon of Norwich Cathedral, Carlton belonged also to the older generation of madrigal composers, particularly fond of the 'Byrd' or English cadence of flat versus sharp leading-notes. Although he claims to have laboured 'somewhat to imitate the Italian style', he admitted in his preface, 'I cannot forget that I am an English man.' CONTENTS All creatures then (SSATB) Calm was the air (SSAT (or A) B) Content thyself with thy estate (SAATB) Even as the flowers do wither (SSATB) From stately tower (SSATB) If women can be courteous (SSATB) Let every sharp (SSATB) Like as the gentle heart (SSATB) Nought is on earth (SSATB) Nought under heaven (SSATB) O vain desire (SSATB) Sound saddest notes (SSATB) So whilom learned (SSATB) The heathen Gods for love (SA (or T) A (or T) BB) The love of change (SSATB) The self-same things (SS (or A) ATB) The witless boy (SSATB) When Flora fair (SSATB) Who seeks to captivate (SAATB) Who vows devotion (SSATB) With her sweet locks (SSATB) Ye gentle ladies (SSATB).
SKU: ST.EM22
ISBN 9790220200861.
CONTENTS Ah, Cupid, grant (SSATTB) All the day I waste (SSA(or T)A(or T)B) Camilla fair tripped o'er the plain (SSA(or T)T(or B)B) Come, Sorrow, help me to lament (SSATB) Cupid in a bed of roses (SSATTB) Cytherea smiling said (SSATTB) Down the hills Corinna trips (SSATB) Fond love is blind (SSATTB) Have I found her? (SST(or A)BB) Her hair the net of golden wire (SSATTB) I heard a noise (SSATB) If floods of tears (S(or T)Solo) If I seek to enjoy (SST) In depth of grief (SA(or T)TTB) Life of my life (SSATB) Live not, poor bloom (SSA(or T)B) Love is the fire (SAT) My mistress after service due (SAT) O what is she? (SSAB) One woman scarce of twenty (SST) Pleasure is a wanton thing (SST) Sadness, sit down (SSATB) See forth her eyes (SAA(or T)B(or T)) She with a cruel frown (SSTTBB) Sweet those trammels of your hair (SAT) The nightingale in silent night (SSAT) When to the gloomy woods (SATB) Why do I, dying, live? (SSA(or T)TB) Why dost thou fly? (SSA(or T)T(or A)B) With bitter sighs (SS(or A)A(or T)TB).
SKU: ST.EM25
ISBN 9790220212574.
CONTENTS All in a cave (SAA (or T) B) Amyntas with his Phyllis fair (SATB) Dorus, a silly shepherd (SST) Have I found her? (SATB) Here rest, my thoughts (SATB) I follow, lo, the footing (SST) Is this thy doom? (SST) Love is a secret feeding fire (SAA (or T) B) My heart is dead (SST (or A) TB) No, no, no it will not be (SSATB) Now I see thou floutest me (SSATB) Pour forth, mine eyes (SST) See where my love (SST) Sing we, dance we (SSATB) Stay, nymph, O stay (SST) Sweet Phillida, my flocks (SSATB) The messenger of the delightful Spring (SATB) Under the tops of Helicons (SSATB) What though her frowns? (SATB) When Oriana walked (SSATB) Why do I fret? (SAT (or A) B) Why should I grieve? (SATB).
SKU: ST.EM17
ISBN 9790220210297.
CONTENTS A seely Sylvan (SSAT (or A) B) Alas my Daphne, stay (SSAT (or A) B) All ye that sleep in pleasure (SSATB) Arise, sweet heart (SSAT (or A) B) Ay me, that life should yet remain (SSATB) Ay me, when to the air (SSAT (or A) B) Cruel, let my heart be bless'd (SSAT (or A) B) First with looks he liv'd (SSATB) I always lov'd to call my lady Rose (SSATB) If this be love, to scorn (SSAT (or A) B) Injurious hours (SSAT (or A) B) My heart oppress'd (SSAT (or A) B) O come Shepherds all together (SSATB) O my grief, were it disclosed (SSATB) Shall I seek to ease my grief? (SSATB) Shepherd Claius seeing (SSATB) Sweet Daphne, stay thy flying (SSATB) Sylvan justly suffered (SSATB) When first I saw those cruel eyes (SSAT (or A) B) Whilst that my lovely Daphne (SSATB).
SKU: HL.14011728
ISBN 9788759851890. UPC: 888680705817. 10.5x14.5 inches. Danish.
These Four Madrigals by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen are settings of texts by the Australian author, Les Murray. Two songs were originally written for the Song Company, Australia and two more from his larger work, Sound/Sight for Danish Radio Chamber Choir. All have been arranged here for six voices (SSATBarB) with texts in English and Danish. Duration 16:30.
