Suites Nos. 1 2 3 and 4-The Eight Great Suites is perhaps Handel's best-known and finest collection of keyboard works. Each of the four suites included here is written in full. This edition includes an informative introduction and a textual notes section. Set for the ABRSM Harpsichord examinations grades 5-7.
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: CY.CC3147
ISBN 9790530111154. 8.5 x 11 in inches.
Russ Schultz has arranged eight lovely duets of Baroque dances by Handel for intermediate to moderately advanced level trombonists. Each movement has a different style and is a delight to perform. These can be played on two tenors or tenor and bass trombone.