Format : Score and Parts
SKU: PE.EP72932
ISBN 9790577017945.
Flodden by Sally Beamish is a 28-minute work for soprano and chamber orchestra with texts by R.S. Craig, Jean Elliot and J.B. Selkirk, with two interludes in between. It was written in 2013 for the 500th anniversary of the tragedy at Flodden Field, a battle which led to casualties and losses of historic proportions. Sally Beamish decided to set the texts and to write for soprano to express the grief of those left behind -- particularly the women and children. The orchestration throughout the work is spare and angular; characterized by stark exposed solo lines, nervy ornamentation, and blurred string textures.
Flodden was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, supported with funds from the PRS for Music Foundation, RVW Trust, Cruden Foundation and Hope Scott Trust. It was first performed in September 2013 at Hamilton Town House by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Swensen, with soprano soloist Shuna Scott Sendall, and was shortlisted for both a Royal Philharmonic Society and a British Composer Award.
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SKU: ML.013702080
At the end of 1944, Allied troops invaded the Netherlands from Belgium. Hope and longing for freedom, which now seemed so close, swept through the Netherlands: Operation Market Garden was launched. Huge numbers of paratroopers made the dangerous jump to take over enemy territory on the south side of the Rhine. Fierce fighting and attempts to cross and secure the river resulted in heavy casualties for the liberating forces. Ground support from the south came too late and there was no alternative but to call off Operation Market Garden. What looked like a quick liberation of the Netherlands turned into a long, bitter struggle. To make matters worse, a harsh winter followed: hunger and cold ate away at hope and the prospect of a liberated Netherlands. The composition 1944 uses original radio fragments from 1944 to describe these events.
SKU: BT.CMP-0576-01-130
Stephen Bullas highly descriptive work was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place between the 19th February and 26th March 1945.Casualties on both the American and Japanese sides were horrendously high before the famous image of the raising of the flag on top of Mount Suribachi signalled the end of one of the most significant and terrifying Pacific conflicts of the SecondWorld War.The work received its first performance by the brass choir of the U.S. Marine Band at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. and is divided into four programmatic sections.The first portrays the sense of anticipation before conflict (Prologue), before the arduous journey to the scene of the battle (Approach by Sea) is followed by introspection and prayer featuring the hymn tune Melita (Chorale Prayer), andfinally, the hostile confrontation itself (Engagement).There are frequent references to the Marines Hymn and the US National Anthem, particularly in the closing bars, depicting the ultimate raising of the American flag.
SKU: BT.AMP-416-010
English-German-French-Dutch.
In Memoriam: For the Fallen was commissioned by Bolsover District Council for the Bolsover Brass Summer School 2014. It is a setting for narrator and band of Laurence Binyon’s (1869-1943) poem, For the Fallen, which was first published in The Times in September 1914. Binyon was dismayed at the outbreak of war and especially concerned by the large number ofcasualties suffered by the British Expeditionary Force in the early months of the battle on the Western Front. Too old to enlist, he volunteered as a hospital orderly in France. The poem is known world-wide as the famous fourth stanza (They shallgrow not old…) has become a regular part of Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day services.In Memoriam: For the Fallen is a musical accompaniment to the poem, shadowing the mood of each stanza.In Memoriam: For the Fallen is geschreven in opdracht van de Bolsover District Council, voor de Bolsover Brass Summer School 2014. Het werk een toonzetting voor verteller en harmonieorkest is gebaseerd op het gedicht ‘For the Fallen’ van Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), dat in september 1914 voor het eerst werd gepubliceerd in de Britse krant The Times. Binyon was ontdaan overhet uitbreken van de oorlog, en hij was vooral erg bezorgd over het grote aantal gesneuvelden in de British Expeditionary Force tijdens de eerste maanden van de strijd aan het westfront. Hij was te oud om dienst te nemen in het leger en werkte alsvrijwilliger in een hospitaal in Frankrijk. Het gedicht is wereldwijd bekend om zijn befaamde vierde strofe (They shall grow not old…) een jaarlijks terugkerende tekst bij herdenkingen in Groot-Brittannië, Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland.In Memoriam: For the Fallen levert de muzikale begeleiding bij het gedicht, waarbij de sfeer van elke strofe wordt verklankt. In Memoriam: For the Fallen wurde vom Gemeinderat des englischen Ortes Bolsover für die Bolsover Summer School 2014 in Auftrag gegeben. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Umsetzung für Erzähler und Blasorchester des Gedichts For the Fallen von Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), das erstmals im September 1914 in der Times veröffentlicht wurde. Binyon war über den Kriegsausbruch bestürztund besonders betroffen von der großen Anzahl an Verlusten bei der British Expeditionary Force in den ersten Kriegsmonaten an der Westfront. Da er selbst zu alt war, um sich zu melden, trat er zum Freiwilligendienst als Krankenpfleger in Frankreichan. Sein Gedicht erlangte weltweite Bekanntheit durch die berühmte vierte Strophe (They shall not grow old...), die regelmäßig beim Volkstrauertag und bei den Gottesdiensten am Gedenktag des ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) vorgetragenwird.In Memoriam: For the Fallen ist eine musikalische Begleitung zum Gedicht, welche die Stimmung jeder Strophe musikalisch untermalt. In Memoriam: For the Fallen est une commande du Conseil général de la Ville de Bolsover (Angleterre) pour le stage d’été 2014 du Bolsover Brass. Cette composition est une mise en musique pour narrateur et orchestre d’harmonie du poème de Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), For the Fallen, publié pour la première fois dans le Times de septembre 1914. Désolé que la guerre ait éclaté, Binyons’inquiétait particulièrement des lourdes pertes parmi le corps expéditionnaire britannique dans les premiers mois de combats sur le front de l’Ouest. Trop gé pour s’engager, il se porta volontaire comme aide-soignant dans un hôpital en France. Lepoème est connu mondialement, sa quatrième strophe, They shall not grow old... (Ils ne vieilliront pas...), étant traditionnellement incluse dans les cérémonies du Remembrance Day (le 11 novembre).In Memoriam: For the Fallen est un accompagnement musical adapté au poème et reflétant le climat de chaque strophe.
