Format : Sheet music
SKU: ST.H449
ISBN 9790220221286.
A well-known teacher and compiler of Stainer & Bell's Opera Gala series, John Norris has created Wedding Gala with an ear to giving church organists a mix of favourites and exciting discoveries to brighten the routine of music for the service of holy matrimony. No album would be complete without the traditional wedding music of Mendelssohn and Wagner, and it can be found here in this collection alongside other classics of the wedding repertoire by Jeremiah Clarke, Bach and Handel. But there's also a thoroughly contemporary leavening, with arrangements of Sydney Carter's One More Step and Lord of the Dance, both firm favourites, plus Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Charpentier's Prelude, adding a note of splendour. But the real bonus is for lovers of English music, with Elgar's Chanson de Matin and 'The Call' from the Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, seldom found in comparable collections. And there's also a rare new discovery: the ravishing Chosen Tune by Herbert Howells, transcribed from his Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 28, and available as an organ piece for the first time. Each piece is comprehensively registered by the arranger, and the collection as a whole will be welcomed by all organists of intermediate standard as a source of new material not only for liturgical use but also for recitals.
SKU: CA.221200
ISBN 9790007170776.
In every century, love is probably the most frequently-celebrated theme. The choral anthology for the LIEDERPROJEKT installment brings together 40 love songs from all eras in well-known and new, easy-to-sing settings. The collection contains a wide range of settings from the 16th and 17th centuries, the Romantic period, arrangements of popular music as well as settings of well-known and contemporary love songs specially arranged for this choral collection. * ideal for concerts and weddings * 4-6 part settings, some with piano accompaniment * settings mainly in German, English, and French * contains popular and well-known compositions by composers including Brahms, Dowland, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Morley, Purcell, Ravel, Tallis, and Tchaikovsky * with numerous new choral movements * with chansons, jazz standards and pop classics such as Autumn leaves, La vie en rose, Sehnsucht and many more * easy to medium difficulty * a CD with selected songs is included with the conductor's volume.
SKU: HL.49047364
ISBN 9798350124866. UPC: 196288207610.
Four Arms, Two Necks is a setting of a 17th century anonymous poem. The timelessness of the words in the love poem struck me and I set it to music, later dedicating the song to two friends, Anda and Bill Winters, in celebration of a wedding anniversary. Orpheus is from William ShakespeareÂ?s play The Life of King Henry VIII. Between 1996-2000, I composed and produced the music for audio recordings of all 38 Shakespeare plays in the Complete Arkangel Shakespeare collection. This song from the play was originallywritten for lute accompaniment and I later arranged the lute part for piano. Agua, Dónde Vas? is a setting of a poem by Federico GarcÃa Lorca. In 1998, I visited Barcelona to renew with a dear friend, Lucia from an illustrious family of flamenco musicians and dancers. We had met in 1985 when I first visited Granada and was hanging out in the flamenco tablaoÂ?s of the Albaicin and Granada proper. Through Lucia I got a glimpse of a world in which LorcaÂ?s poetry vibrated daily and as casually as the music, songs and rhythms that peppered and punctuated conversations, discussions, exchanges of opinions, mealtimes in homes and bars and the precious moments of just hanging out.
This album represents astonishing value for money! / Partition /
