Format : Vocal Score
From the celebrated music of George Frideric Handel comes an Easter proclamation adapted by Hal Hopson. Brimming with classical vigor this confident yet refined anthem will ignite your Easter service with the triumphant sounds ofcelebration. A true sacred standard! Supports: I Corinthians 15:20a 51b and 57
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.
