Matériel : Partition
House Of Winter is a setting of four Christmas poems by George Mackay Brown for AATBBB or SATBBB a cappella choir. The music is continuous and though scored for unaccompanied voices it becomes almost orchestra in itsevocation of the calm frozen stillness of an Orkney winter on the one hand and the wildness of a December storm on the other.The setting is largely homphonic in Davies’s 'adult' modal style and with a characteristicinventiveness of vocal scoring as in the storm sequence with its whistling upper voices and eruptive bass line.The first performance took place during the tenth St. Magnus Festival as part of a concert given by The King'sSingers in Kirkwall in June 1986.Vocal score with piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.
SKU: HL.14020995
ISBN 9780711961920.
Stud y score of The Three Kings, A Christmas Cantata for SATB soli, chorus and orchestra. Texts by George Mackay Brown and mediaeval, anonymous. This work was commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus to commemorate its 30th anniversary. First performed on 15th October 1995 at the Barbican Hall, London. Duration 50 minutes. Vocal Score also available for sale. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available for hire.
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: HL.14020976
UPC: 888680020262. 8.25x11.75x0.106 inches.
Challenging work for solo trumpet, which was commissioned by the International Trumpet Guild. It was first performed on the 23rd of June, 1999 at St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney at the St. Magnus Festival by John Wallace. Engravings are spread across double sheets so the player does not have to turn the page frequently. Duration: 11 minutes.
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SKU: HL.48010773
UPC: 073999559699. 7.3x10.2x0.224 inches.
HPS 1110 For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra.
SKU: HL.48025331
ISBN 9781784548322. UPC: 196288175513. 3.5x6.75x0.407 inches.
The best-selling diary returns for 2024 with a user-friendly portrait format, extra space for weekend appointments, and birthdays ofhundreds of famous people in the world of music. Listings of important musical events from 100, 50 and 25 years ago and forthcoming anniversaries up to 2029 are included, alongside a mini-directory of concert halls, opera houses, festivals, organisations and recording companies, plus a special article by Paul Driver celebrating the work of composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle in their 90th anniversary year. The cover design for 2024 includes an excerpt from Benedictus from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (1999) by Karl Jenkins, marking the composer's 80th birthday.
