SKU: CA.2090100
ISBN 9790007037284.
Thanks to a stipend from his patron, the Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, Schutz was able to pursue a three-year period of study under Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice from 1609 to 1612, which he concluded with the publication in 1611 of the madrigal collection Il Primo Libro de Madrigali. Already in this, his Opus primus, Schutz emerged as an outstanding composer: In their musical quality, the 18 five-part madrigals exceed much that was still being composed in the traditional madrigal style at the beginnning of the 17th century.
SKU: HL.8552362
UPC: 884088612771. 4.75x5.0x0.157 inches. Mary Donnelly/George L.O. Strid.
Here is a playful contemporary madrigal for younger mixed choirs that will be great for concerts and festivals at any time of year. Set in a buoyant 3/4, the strophic text will be easy to learn and provide a successful first a cappella experience for beginning singers. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed a cappella, VoiceTrax CD. Duration: ca. 1:25.
SKU: ST.EM5
ISBN 9790220206849.
Gibbons seems to have been outside the process 'by which', wrote Joseph Kerman in The Elizabethan Madrigal, 'England first became sophisticated in the ways of Continental music.' These 20 pieces certainly, if differently, follow the pure line of William Byrd and are still of the old 'English' school. They include The Silver Swan and Dainty Fine Bird. CONTENTS Ah dear heart (SAA (or T) A (or T) B) Dainty fine bird (SST (or A) TB) Fair is the rose (SA (or S) ATB) Fair ladies that to love (SSAT (or A) B) Farewell all joys (SSA (or T) A (or T) B) How art thou thralled (SS (or A) TTB) I feign not friendship (SSAT (or A) B) I see Ambition never pleased (SSATB) I tremble not at noise of war (SSAT (or A) B) I weigh not fortuneAs frown (SSAT (or A) B) Lais now old (SATT (or A) B) Mongst thousands good (SSAT (or A) B) Nay let me weep (SA (or S) T (or A) T (or A) B) NeAer let the sun (SAT (or A) TB) Now each flowery bank of May (SST (or A) TB) O that the learned poets (SSA (or T) B ( or T) B) Silver Swan, The (SSA (or T) B (or T) B) Trust not too much fair youth (SST (or A) TB) What is our life? (SAA (or T) TB) Yet if that age (SS (or A) T (or A) TB).
SKU: HL.394429
ISBN 9781705157794. UPC: 196288032687. 6.75x9.0x0.115 inches.
This collection features five of the most popular choral works from the English Madrigal School, a brief period from the 1580s to the 1620s that followed the arrival of Italian secular polyphony on English shores. The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements -- Soprano, Alto and Men -- and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for “sound” to create the portmanteau word “sound together” or “harmony.” The series offers basic and advanced choral repertoire. In addition to new repertoire and new arrangements, you will also find essential parts of the classical German, Scandinavian, French and English SATB repertoire, carefully and considerately reworked for SAM. The arrangements retain the characteristic features of the original movements and have almost the same richness of timbre, resulting in works which sound nearly unchanged to an audience. Piano reductions of all choral movements facilitate rehearsal preparation. The arrangements offer development opportunities for all voice sections, bringing new life and new quality to SAM choir work. SAM-Klang enables youth choirs to gain access to classical choral literature and ensures that mixed choirs who face challenges in finding singers for all male voice parts continue to have access to well-loved repertoire.
SKU: CA.180200
ISBN 9790007192440. Language: German/English.
Johann Hermann Schein's Israelsbrunnlein, published in Leipzig in 1623, is a supreme achievement not only among the works of this composer, who had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig since 1616, but also for the entire body of German music written during the first half of the 17th century. Among the 26 motets written in the Italian madrigal manner 23 are settings of Old Testament texts, a fact to which the collection owes its title. The source for the text of this collection is the inexhaustible fountain of the Psalms, the books of Moses, the Prophets, the Songs of Solomon, and other books of the Old Testament.
SKU: CA.2000100
ISBN 9790007033149. Key: G dorian. Language: Italian. Text: Guarini, Giambattista. Text: Giambattista Guarini.
SKU: ST.EM35B
ISBN 9790220211652.
Organist of St George's, Windsor, and successor to the famous Marbecke, Mundy was amongst the earliest of the English madrigalists. There are 12 madrigals in this collection, ranging from Of all the birds, a tribute to William Byrd, to In deep distress and the tragic setting of words written by Chideock Tichborne on the eve of his execution in the Tower of London, My prime of youth. The volume also contains 25 psalms in three, four, and five parts. CONTENTS As I went walking (SAT) Blessed art thou (SAT) Have mercy on me, O Lord (SSATB) Hear my prayer, O Lord (STB) Heigh Ho! 'chill go to plough (SSAB) I lift my heart to thee (SSAT) In deep distress (SATB) In midst of woods (SSATB) Lightly she whipped o'er the dales (SSATB) Lord arise and help thy servant (SSATB) Lord to thee I make my moan (SATB) My prime of youth (SATB) O all ye nations (S (or A) AT) O come let us lift up our voice (SAT) O Lord of whom I do depend (SSAT) O Lord turn not away thy face (SAT) Of all the birds (SAT) Penelope that longed (SSATB) Praise the Lord, O my soul (SAT) Save me, O God (SAT) Sing ye unto the Lord (SSAT) The black-bird made (SSATB) The longer that I live (SSAT) The Shepherd Stephon (S solo, A. viol, T. viol, B. viol) Thus art thou bless'd (SAT) Turn about and see me (SA (or T) T) Unto thee lift I up mine eyes (SSATB) Were I a king (SATBB) Who loves a life (SSATB) Witness ye heav'ns (S solo, A. viol, T. viol, B. viol) Ye people all in one accord (SAB).
SKU: ST.EM33
ISBN 9790220200076.
This interesting collection looks back to the 'Winter' of Byrd and Mundy in the conservative settings of such verse as My prime of youth (see EM35B); but it is also a contemporary record, with two madrigals celebrating the failure of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot against James I. CONTENTS Behold now praise the Lord (S (or A) S (or A) TBB) But yet it seems (SSAB) Can I abide this prancing? (SSATB) Earth's but a point (SSATB) For Lust is frail (SSATB) He only can behold (SSAB) Her eyes like angels (SSATB) I can no more but hope (SSAB) In hope a King (SSAB) My prime of youth (SSAB) O heavy heart (SSAB) O Lord bow down thine ear (SATTB) Rest with yourselves (SSATB) Shall I abide this jesting (SSATB) The man upright of life (SSAB) The sacred choir of angels (SATBB) The Spring is past (SSAB) The stately stag (SSATB) The sturdy rock (SSATB) There is a garden in her face (SSATB) Those cherries fairly do enclose (SSATB) Though Wit bids Will (SSAB) What if a day (SSATB) Who loves this life (SSAB).
SKU: HL.48187354
UPC: 888680845643. 0.13 inches.
Poulenc's song cycle, Chansons Gaillardes was composed in 1925-1926 during the post-war euphoria. The cycle is essential to aspiring, advanced baritones. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was a highly prolific composer, and remains popular to this day. Chansons Gaillardes was composed towards the beginning of the composer's career for Baritone Pierre Bernac. At the first performance, Poulenc himself played the piano and the song cycle was immediately a hit. Chansons Gaillardes is made up of eight songs which alternate between lively and slow tempos; 1) The Fickle Mistress, 2) Drinking Song, 3) Madrigal, 4) Summoning the Fates, 5) Bacchanalian Couplets, 6) The Offering, 7) The Beautiful Youth, and 8) Serenade. As a song cycle with much variation, it is an exciting addition to the baritone repertoire.
SKU: PE.0300761775
ISBN 9790300761770.
Long Road is a setting of a love poem by Paulina Barda (widow of the eminent poet Fricis Barda), who died in 1983 at the age of ninety-three; set in the original Latvian, it was Eenvalds' contribution to Love madrigals, a collection of new commissions to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the remarkable youth choir Kamer . . . , and this English version was specially made for Stephen Layton and Polyphony, to whom it is dedicated. It has the plain sincerity of a hymn, being homophonic throughout, and its thorough-going diatonicism is straightforward yet lush. At the midway point, a gentle susurration of bell-sounds and ocarinas appears unexpectedly, there is a brief downwards shift of a third, followed by an elated return to the home key, decorated by soloistic descants, before sustained vocalise and a return of the evanescent tinkling ushers the piece to its close. (5:10) Original Item: EP68714-CMPST.
