Arranged for Descant Treble and Tenor Recorder-Handel wrote three suites collectively known as Water Music which were first performed for King George I of England and his guests as they floated down the Thames River on the royal barge. The Air is one of the best-known melodies from the suite and makes a fantastic work for recorder trio (SAT). Each set includes a score and three of each part.
SKU: BA.BVK01458
ISBN 9783761814581. 21 x 15 cm inches. Preface: Landgraf, Annette / Hirschmann, Wolfgang.
Toccata and Lamentwas composed on commission in 2008 to inaugurate the large new organ in the Christ Church Cathedral, Rochester, NY, USA. This instrument is a detailed reconstruction of a late Baroque organ of 1776 from Vilnius in Lithuania. The point of departure - a clash of contrasting eras and musical cultures on two continents - already bodes excitement. Martin Herchenroder, a composer and professor of music theory, has incorporated these contrasts in his roughly eight-minute composition. The result is a musical idiom of rare distinction, universal in its musical resources and alternating between tonal triads and extremely dissonant clusters. The heart of the piece is a dirge which, using the Baroque doctrine of the affections, relates to Eastern European cultural history in and around Vilnius, a history marked by the predations of 20th-Century war.
SKU: HL.48009794
UPC: 073999175349. 8.5x11.5x0.427 inches.
Contents: As cheers the sun * And shall my sin-stain'd soul * Author of Peace * Ah! Think what ills * Alas! Erastea * Banish love from thy breast * Beneath the Vine * Bless'd the day * Capricious man * Daughter of Gods * Endless pleasure, endless love * Faithful cares in vain extended * Guardian Angels * Hide me from day's garish eye * My heart with tender pity swells * Me, when the sun begins to shine * No more shall armed bands * No, no, I'll take no less * Oft on a plat of rising ground * O killing shock of unexpected pain * O lovely youth * Sinners, lifts your eyes and tremble * Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures * Together lovely innocents.
SKU: HL.44006692
UPC: 884088142025. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.
Händel's opera Scipio was written in 1725 and performed the following year in the King's Theatre, London. After Händel's death his operas fell into obscurity until the 1960s, when they experienced a major revival. This famous march from Scipio has however remained popular since its first performance and has been the Regimental Slow March of the British Grenadier Guards since the 18th century. The march is fairly simple and gives young bands the opportunity to play a well-known baroque melody which should be well within their technical ability.