Samuel Barber: Music for Organ: Organ: Instrumental Album

Samuel Barber Op. 17-Composed in 1942 Barber's Second Essay is a masterwork of concentrated musical drama with a richness of texture comprised of highly charged and succinctly organised musical modules. The opening theme has adefinite American flavour which is followed by a fugal section that evolves from simple tonal patterns to polytonality. After an intensely rhythmic third section all elements are combined in a huge climax and coda that round offthe work. Expertly transcribed for symphonic band by Dr. George Schneider this is certain to find its place in the standard repertoire for mature ensembles. Duration 11:00. (Grade 5)

Lament by Mack Wilberg for String Orchestra with optional Organ.This moving piece for String Orchestra is full of pathos and emotion. Stylistically evocative of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and the distinctive musical language of Arvo Pärt Lament is based around a two-bar arching ostinato artfully developing musical fragments and enriching the texture to reach a powerful central climax. This is a welcome addition to the String Orchestra repertory.This piece was recorded on the 2019 Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra CD Tree of Life under the title 'And Wept Bitterly (Lament on an Ostinato for StringOrchestra)'.

We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance is a collection of some of the finest pieces of choral music on the theme of remembrance.We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance is suitable for church cathedral school youth and community choirs. It contains music appropriate for Remembrance Sunday services and beautiful pieces suitable for concerts memorial and funeral services and other acts of remembrance and reflection.We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance includes classic choral works such as Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei Edgar Bainton’s And I saw a new heaven and WilliamHarris’s Bring us O Lord God alongside other works by well-loved composers including John Tavener Richard Rodney Paul Mealor and Eric Whitacre.New arrangements such as David Hill’s choral reworking of Edward Elgar’s Nimrod are included with other new works by some of the best contemporary composers.In a glowing review in the January/February 2015 edition of Choir & Organ Jeremy Summerly writes of the appropriateness of many of these works for Remembrance concert programmes and the effectiveness of a great number of these choral pieces.

Adagio For Strings Op. 11 transcribed for mixed chorus with organ or piano accompaniment.