Format : Sheet music
/ Orchestre / Partition
SKU: BA.BA07686
ISBN 9790006507351. 35 x 27.1 cm inches.
World Premiere 04/06/1998, Grenchen (Schweiz).
SKU: BT.PMC3367
Each of the five connected movements in this choral cycle contains references to 'Light,' assembled from various sacred Latin texts. I composed Lux Aeterna in response to my mother's final illness and found great personal comfortand solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels - spiritual, artistic and intellectual. The work opens and closes with the beginning and ending of theRequiem Mass, with the central three movements drawn respectively from the Te Deum, O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus. The opening Introitus introduces several themes that recur later in the work and includes an extended canonon et lux perpetua. In Te, Domine, Speravi contains, among other musical elements, the cantus firmus Herzliebster Jesu (from the Nuremburg Songbook, 1677) and a lengthy inverted canon on fiat misericordia. O Nata Lux and Veni,Sancte Spiritus are paired songs, the former an a cappella motet at the center of the work and the latter a spirited, jubilant canticle. A quiet setting of the Agnus Dei precedes the final Lux Aeterna, which reprises the openingsection of the Introitus and concludes with a joyful celebratory Alleluia. --Morten Lauridsen.
SKU: HL.49019505
ISBN 9790001193139. UPC: 884088945206. 8.25x11.75x0.364 inches.
The work was originally written for cello and orchestra. In nine movements after the nine muses.
SKU: HL.49044408
ISBN 9790001141031. 8.25x11.75x0.384 inches.
4 (2. auch Picc., 3. auch Picc. u. Altfl., 4. auch Altfl. u. Bassfl.) * 1 * Ob. d'am. * 2 Engl. Hr. (2. auch Heckelphon) * 4 (3. auch Bassklar., 4. auch Bassklar. u. Kb.-Klar.) * 4 (4. auch Kfg.) - 6 * 4 * 4 * 0 - P. S. (3 hg. Beck. * 3 Tamt. * 4 Thai Gongs * Trinidad Steel Drum * Wassergong [tief] * Crot. * 7 Bong. * 12 Tomt. [chrom.] * Schellentr. * O-Daiko * Log Drums * kl. Tr. * gr. Tr. mit Beck. * Tempelbl. * 3 Woodbl. * 2 Sistr. * Guiro * Mar. * Ratsche * Kast. * Frusta * 2 Flex. * Donnerblech [bronze] * Glsp. * Vibr. * Marimba) (5 Spieler) - Hfe. * Cel. * Klav. - Str.
SKU: HL.14008367
ISBN 9780711975422. 8.25x11.75x0.105 inches.
Piccolo and Piano Reduction. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 23 April 1997, by Stewart McIlwham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer. The three movements should be played without a break. The piccolo may have obvious limitations as a solo instrument, but Davies is not one to shirk a challenge. What he does is to play with the stereotypical modes of the instrument, so that the military pipe and drum effect is hinted at near the beginning of the third movement, while the jaunty manner is recalled at the close of the first, but as through a veil. A potentially comic partnership with the bass clarinet is also dignified when the two instruments engage in meditative dialogue in the second movement. Duration c. 15 minutes. Study Score on sale. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
SKU: HL.49019612
ISBN 9790001193146. UPC: 884088963323. 9.0x12.0x0.187 inches.