SKU: HP.9085
UPC: 763628190859.
In Little Seeds you will find new hymns from my heart. My devotional life is given to you in my hymnwriting. During the past three years I have been writing songs for the unity of the church - songs reminding us of our baptism. I have been writing biblical story hymns for lesser-known characters. I have written paperless songs that may be easily memorized. I set a Rumi poem. There are new hymns for Christian missions from everywhere to everywhere. You will find new texts and musical settings for folk songs from around the world. I hope I have treated these with the love and respect they deserve. You will find alternate arrangements of some songs that may be useful in different settings. Lim Swee Hong composed three tunes for this collection at my request. I am also pleased to include Lianne Tan's first published hymn tune in Little Seeds.
SKU: GI.G-008825
UPC: 641151088259. English.
Inspired by the words of nineteenth-century English poet William Blake, Peter Fisher Hesed has crafted an inspirational discipleship text and wedded it to his own lyrical tune. Each verse builds thematically as they move from unison to two-and three-part voicing with descant. Subtle instrumental interludes separate the verses. The assembly part encompasses all the verses and will blend beautifully with the choir's harmonies.
SKU: BT.AMP-420-130
English-German-French-Dutch.
Sunday in the Park was written for tenor horn virtuoso Sheona White, and commissioned by her partner, Matt Wade, as a Christmas present. Composer Philip Sparke had known and admired Sheona’s playing for many years, having produced her firstsolo CD and written pieces for her previously. Both composer and performer are huge fans of the late Karen Carpenter, Sheona in part modelling her sound on the singer’s sultry voice; so it was decided that this new solo would be a piece which, whilstnot being a ‘Carpenters’ pastiche, paid tribute to their relaxed style and rich harmonic language. Sunday in the Park opens with an accompanied cadenza for the soloist, which leads to a gentle rhythmic melody with a laid-back feel. This istaken up by the band but the soloist sparks a change of mood by introducing a faster light rock interlude. This reaches a climax, at which point the music unwinds until the original mood returns. A variation on the original melody leads to a shortcadenza from the soloist, which brings the work to a peaceful close.Sunday in the Park is geschreven voor Sheona White, een ware virtuoos op de althoorn, in opdracht van haar partner, Matt Wade, die het haar gaf als kerstgeschenk. Componist Philip Sparke is al jarenlang kenner en bewonderaar van hetalthoornspel van Sheona. Hij heeft haar eerste solo-cd geproduceerd en al eerder stukken voor haar geschreven. Zowel de componist als de uitvoerende zijn grote fans van de legendarische Karen Carpenter; Sheona baseert haar sound zelfs gedeeltelijk opde zwoele stem van deze zangeres. Daarom is dit solowerk een eerbetoon geworden aan de relaxte stijl en rijke harmonische taal van de Carpenters hoewel het niet gaat om een potpourri van bekende nummers. Sunday in the Park begint met eenbegeleide cadens voor de solist, die uitmondt in een soepele, ritmische melodie met een ontspannen feel. Die melodie wordt overgenomen door het orkest, waarop de solist een sfeerverandering teweegbrengt met de introductie van een sneller tussenspelin een lichte rockstijl. Dit gedeelte bereikt een climax, waarna de muziek weer tot rust komt en de oorspronkelijke stemming terugkeert. Een variatie op de originele melodie leidt naar een korte cadens van de solist, gevolgd door een sfeervolleafronding.Sunday in the Park war ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für die Althornvirtuosin für Sheona White, geschrieben im Auftrag ihres Partners Matt Wade, der ebenso wie Philip Sparke ein großer Fan der verstorbenen Sängerin Karen Carpenter ist. So gerietdieses Stück zu einer würdigen Hommage an den entspannten Stil und die reichhaltige harmonische Sprache der Carpenters, die klanglich sogar an die Stimme Karen Carpenters erinnert.Sunday in the Park (Un Dimanche au Parc) a été écrite pour Sheona White, virtuose du saxhorn alto, et commandée par son partenaire, Matt Wade, comme cadeau de Noël. Le compositeur Philip Sparke connaissant et admirant Sheona depuislongtemps, avait précédemment produit son premier CD en solo et écrit des pièces pour elle. La saxhorniste, tout comme le compositeur, est une fan inconditionnelle de Karen Carpenter, modelant en partie ses sonorités sur la voix voluptueuse de lachanteuse. Il fut donc décidé que ce nouveau solo serait une pièce qui, sans être un pastiche des Carpenters, rendrait hommage leur style décontracté et leur riche langage harmonique. Sunday in the Park débute avec une cadence accompagnéepour la soliste suivie d’une mélodie délicatement rythmique et détendue. Cette mélodie est reprise par l’ensemble mais la soliste engendre un changement de climat avec l’introduction d’un interlude plus rapide de style rock. La musique atteint sonpoint culminant, puis s’apaise pour revenir au climat du début. Une variation sur la mélodie d’origine mène une courte cadence de la soliste qui conduit la pièce une conclusion tranquille.
SKU: PR.114414290
UPC: 680160594030.
Written for Concertante, a string sextet which has commissioned six different works, each highlighting one of its players. In Ran's new work, the second cellist, Zvi Plesser, was spotlighted with an outgoing, intensely lyrical opening theme, according to a New York Times review. Yet, Lyre of Orpheus never overlooks the collaborative, conversational essence of the ensemble. Read the full review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/music/18conc.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1286200920-wRrt7MJ416+FpOYAUe/IOQ For advanced performers.Lyre of Orpheus was composed for Concertante, the New York-based string sextet, for its One Plus Five Project, a three-year, six-composer commissioning project designed to create six string sextets, each featuring one of Concertante’s core players.This particular commission was made with the goal of giving center-stage to the ensemble’s first cello, a choice I was especially grateful for, not only because it features Zvi Plesser, the outstanding Israeli cellist, but also because it gave ma an opportunity to highlight an instrument for which, from a very early stage in my life, I have felt a special affinity. The cell’s “soul”, so naturally combining passion and lyricism, has always touched me in a special way.As sometimes happens, naming the piece was the final act in the process of creation. Once titled, though, I found myself looking through the piece with a mixture of delight and astonishment – the narrative of the almost iconic mythological story of love and loss seems as one entirely plausible, and to my mind convincing, way to tract the unfolding of the musical events. Of course, the music was written with no such tale (or any tale, for that matter) in mind. But perhaps some stories are emblematic of so much that is part of our lives and psyches, of our desires, fears and wishes. Orpheus, whose longing for Eurydice recognizes no boundaries of heaven and hell… Love regained, then forever lost… Orpheus’ lyre intoning his sorrowful yearning…Lyre of Orpheus, approximately fifteen minutes in length, composed in late 2008, is intermittently songful, caressing, passionate, pained, ferocious, longing. The instrumentation consists of 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, the first of which is the soloist/protagonist, the second notable for having its lowest string tuned down a third to achieve extra lower notes.This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Commissioning Program, with funding generously provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
SKU: PR.11441429S
UPC: 680160594054. 9.5 x 13 inches.
Written for Concertante, a string sextet which has commissioned six different works, each highlighting one of its players. In Ran's new work, the second cellist, Zvi Plesser, was spotlighted with an outgoing, intensely lyrical opening theme, according to a New York Times review. Yet, Lyre of Orpheus never overlooks the collaborative, conversational essence of the ensemble. Read the full review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/music/18conc.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1286200920-wRrt7MJ416+FpOYAUe/IOQ For advanced performers.Lyre of Orpheus was composed for Concertante, the New York-based string sextet, for its One Plus Five Project, a three-year, six-composer commissioning project designed to create six string sextets, each featuring one of Concertante’s core players. This particular commission was made with the goal of giving center-stage to the ensemble’s first cello, a choice I was especially grateful for, not only because it features Zvi Plesser, the outstanding Israeli cellist, but also because it gave ma an opportunity to highlight an instrument for which, from a very early stage in my life, I have felt a special affinity. The cell’s “soul”, so naturally combining passion and lyricism, has always touched me in a special way. As sometimes happens, naming the piece was the final act in the process of creation. Once titled, though, I found myself looking through the piece with a mixture of delight and astonishment – the narrative of the almost iconic mythological story of love and loss seems as one entirely plausible, and to my mind convincing, way to tract the unfolding of the musical events. Of course, the music was written with no such tale (or any tale, for that matter) in mind. But perhaps some stories are emblematic of so much that is part of our lives and psyches, of our desires, fears and wishes. Orpheus, whose longing for Eurydice recognizes no boundaries of heaven and hell… Love regained, then forever lost… Orpheus’ lyre intoning his sorrowful yearning… Lyre of Orpheus, approximately fifteen minutes in length, composed in late 2008, is intermittently songful, caressing, passionate, pained, ferocious, longing. The instrumentation consists of 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, the first of which is the soloist/protagonist, the second notable for having its lowest string tuned down a third to achieve extra lower notes. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Commissioning Program, with funding generously provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.—Shulamit Ran.
SKU: GI.G-CD-833
UPC: 785147083320.
In her new music collection Let This Be the Time, Lori True presents us with a powerful and urgent call to put our faith into action. Each “song prayer” expresses the profound and compelling partnership between our prayer and our mission.True’s composing prowess compliments the compelling texts of renowned writers Shirley Erena Murray, Ruth Duck, Delores Dufner, John L. Bell, and Mary Louise Bringle, enhancing and articulating their meaning.
SKU: GI.G-1039
Conte • Stephenson • Grantham • Cuong • Kozlevnikov • Dooley North Texas Wind Symphony Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Conductor The latest release from the GIA WindWorks label, Taylor Made, features compositions by David Conte, James M. Stephenson, Donald Grantham, Viet Cuong, Boris Kozhevnikov, and Paul Dooley. Under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon, the North Texas Wind Symphony continues the tradition of superior recordings of some of the best works written for wind symphony. Winds magazine writes “This series has immense historic value in documenting the best of the repertoire…as well as providing much sheer listening pleasure for the level of artistry in the performances….these discs represent the standards to which all must aspire.” GIA Publications, Inc. is proud to partner with Eugene Corporon and the North Texas Wind Symphony to provide first-class recordings that accentuate the comprehensiveness, depth, and value of the wind symphony medium and its music. Contents 1. A Copland Portrait (1999) (8:44) David Conte (b. 1955)/trans. Ryan Nowlin • Copyright © E.C. Schirmer Music Three Bones Concerto (2013) (15:31) James M. Stephenson (b. 1969) • Copyright © Stephenson Music Cuban (2:52) Lazy (4:19) Hip (8:20) • Tony Baker, Natalie Mannix, Steven Menard – Trombone Soloists Symphony No. 2, “after Hafiz” (2016) (18:08) Donald Grantham (b. 1947) • Copyright © Piquant Press Listen to This Music (4:38) Greeting God (5:46) I Hold the Lion's Paw (7:44) Moth (2013) (8:38) • Viet Cuong (b. 1990) • © Viet Cuong Music Symphony No. 3, “Slavyanskaya” (1950) (15:22) Boris Kozhevnikov (1906–1985)/ed. John R. Bourgeois • Copyright © Wingert-Jones Music Allegro, decisively (5:45) Slow Waltz (2:46) Vivace (2:16) Moderato, joyously (4:35) 13. Mavericks (2016) (8:02) Paul Dooley (b. 1983) • Copyright © Paul Dooley Music Total Time (75:00) The creation of the WindWorks label represents an expanded relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications. GIA’s generous support and ongoing dedication to wind music has made it possible for the ensemble to continue producing recordings of the highest quality that are a testament to the perseverance and work ethic of everyone involved. While the first 34 releases in the series, initiated in 1989, remain with the Klavier label, this broadened alliance with GIA affords the opportunity to consolidate all of the current projects under one publishing roof. The diverse set of offerings consists of WindWorks (which includes the CD and DVD series), the Composer’s Collection, and the Teaching Music through Performance in Band resource recordings. Partnering in this way creates exciting possibilities that allow the imaginative output to stay focused on the ongoing mission: to provide first-class recordings that accentuate the comprehensiveness, depth, and value of the wind symphony medium and its music. .
SKU: HP.2143
UPC: 763628121433. By Noel Regney & Gloria Shayne.
Popular Christmas carol by Noel Regney & Gloria Shayne The title's question is asked by four entities: The night wind, a little lamb, a shepherd boy and a mighty king. Each stanza of this arrangement reflects the mood and intensity of each question. The flute is not optional, rather an integral part as it partners with the bells to inspire and motivate. The flute part is included in the folio with permission to copy. Measures total 85.
SKU: GI.G-1055
The creation of the WindWorks label represents an expanded relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications. GIA’s generous support and ongoing dedication to wind music has made it possible for the ensemble to continue producing recordings of the highest quality that are a testament to the perseverance and work ethic of everyone involved. While the first 34 releases in the series, initiated in 1989, remain with the Klavier label, this broadened alliance with GIA affords the opportunity to consolidate all of the current projects under one publishing roof. The diverse set of offerings consists of WindWorks (which includes the CD and DVD series), the Composer’s Collection, and the Teaching Music through Performance in Band resource recordings. Partnering in this way creates exciting possibilities that allow the imaginative output to stay focused on the ongoing mission: to provide first-class recordings that accentuate the comprehensiveness, depth, and value of the wind symphony medium and its music. Contents: Undercurrents (2016) • Robert Buckley (b. 1946) Amen! (2017) • Carlos Simon (b. 1986) Symphony No. 4: Unforsaken (2016) • Kevin Walczyk (b. 1964) Notezart (2018) • Cindy McTee (b. 1953) Concerto for Hope: Trumpet Concerto No. 3 (2018) • James Stephenson (b. 1969) New Era Overture (2010) • Bruce Broughton (b. 1945).
SKU: GI.G-CD-1004
The creation of the WindWorks label represents an expanded relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications. GIA’s generous support and ongoing dedication to wind music has made it possible for the ensemble to continue producing recordings of the highest quality that are a testament to the perseverance and work ethic of everyone involved. While the first 34 releases in the series, initiated in 1989, remain with the Klavier label, this broadened alliance with GIA affords the opportunity to consolidate all of the current projects under one publishing roof. The diverse set of offerings consists of WindWorks (which includes the CD and DVD series), the Composer’s Collection, and the Teaching Music through Performance in Band resource recordings. Partnering in this way creates exciting possibilities that allow the imaginative output to stay focused on the ongoing mission: to provide first-class recordings that accentuate the comprehensiveness, depth, and value of the wind symphony medium and its music. Contents: 1. For the President’s Own (John Williams) 2–4. Three Short Stories (Gernot Wolfgang) 2. Uncle Bebop 3. Rays of Light 4. Latin Dance 5. In the World of Spirits (Bruce Broughton) 6. The Ringmaster’s March (John Mackey) 7. Winter Dreams (Michael Daugherty) 8–10. Wine-Dark Sea (John Mackey) 8. Hubris 9. Immortal Thread, So Weak 10. The Attentions of Souls.
SKU: PR.111402890
ISBN 9781491134672. UPC: 680160685264.
What??s in a name? While the title is French for ??Eight Flower Songs,? the texts are all in English. The poems?? flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. Perhaps the texture and beauty of Gordon??s music are themselves French. The 20-minute song cycle draws on poems from Wordsworth to Dorothy Parker, as well as from contemporary poets including the composer himself.When So-Chung Shinn came to me with the idea of commissioning a song cycle with her spectacular husband Tony Lee, she had in mind something having to do with flowers. Tony had asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she said she wanted to be behind the creating of a new work. Lucky me, I was the recipient of the commission. So-Chung sent me a little description of all the flowers she loves, but I had to take the idea and create a narrative in my head.It is always a matter of pleasing the commissioner, yet coming up with something you can get behind and hear music for as well. I already knew I wanted to use my ??Tulips? poem which is really about the arc of a relationship as represented through the life span of the Tulips, and, in many ways, disappointment; and Dorothy Parker??s ??One Perfect Rose,? which is wry, bitter, cynical, and funny, in a way only Dorothy Parker can so pithily express.I thought of Jane Kenyon??s exquisite ??Peonies at Dusk,? because knowing she died so young (46) of leukemia, the poem has such a particular resonance, almost humanizing the Peonies, casting the moon as a sentient being, illustrating so beautifully how connected everything is, alive here, and revolving around these exquisite blossoms. Then, I remembered her husband Donald Hall??s poem ??Her Garden,? which he wrote after Jane died, his grief intermingled with his inability to care for what she had created, to keep alive what so represented her aliveness, broken as he was, and I felt I already had a story.I found the Wordsworth, because it felt like pure joy to me, but also, if each of the songs has a color in my head, ??The Daffodils? is pure yellow and a good place to start. My partner Kevin and I live on a lake, and every year, the first Daffodils, the shock of yellows, the oranges, the blinding whites, after the long snowy winters, sing of the newness that is about to enfold us in its green miraculousness.At first, the cycle ended with the Langston Hughes poem ??Cycle,? or ??New Flowers,? because it was lovely, and about rebirth, which is obviously optimistic, and apt, but then, my friend Telmo Dos Santos, a wonderful Canadian poet whom I met at Banff, sent me his poem ??Afterlife With Lilacs,? having no idea what I was working on. I felt I had to add it because it is so dazzling, and it immediately felt like the missing link. Finally, there were unfortunately rights issues, namely, we could not, no how, get in touch with the Langston Hughes Estate, after so many happy collaborations.After almost a year??s frustration, I wrote my own text, ??Play, Orpheus,? which ended up being fortuitous, because the first time I met So-Chung, she entered the room and the most exquisite scent of Lillies of the Valley, Muguet de Bois, filled the room. I went right over to her and rudely put my nose to her neck, for the intoxication of the scent. So ??Play, Orpheus? is for So-Chung, to remind us of the precious treasures of this world flowers remind us of. Everything and everyone lives and dies, lives and dies. Death and resurrection.And of course, this is music, this is song, so the inclusion of the God of music, Orpheus, seems apt. Huit Chansons de Fleurs is really about what flowers represent, their radiance, their flickering impermanence, the way they are used to celebrate, as well as to mourn...... and of course, their fragrance. Their fragrance.Ricky Ian GordonJuly 28, 2021.
SKU: PR.11441378S
UPC: 680160585939. 11 x 14 inches.
Commissioned by Network for New Music, who premiered the work in April 2008, with support from Philadelphia Music Project, an Artistic Initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by the University of the Arts.“Song and Dance” began its life as a nascent melody in the late eighties, employing a similar motivic cell as did three of my works written over a period of several years — East Wind, String Quartet No. 2 (Vistas), and Mirage. At the ore of these three works is the simplest of melodic kernels — a note encircled by its two neighboring tones (and more specifically, a half step above and whole step below). At the time, I envisioned writing a work for voice, oboe, and marimba, and had just begun it, only to drop it in favor of more pressing compositional assignments. Almost twenty years later, the vocal fragment finally evolved into the “song” of this work, played here by the soprano saxophone. But it seems that the song, all these years, had been waiting for its counterpart, a dance. Singing and dancing are two of humankind’s most basic and essential impulses, transcending time and place, reaching back to the earliest civilizations. The resulting composition, “Song and Dance”, moves back and forth between the two, delineating its various parts further with the use of both soprano and alto saxophones, partnered by mallet percussion instruments — mostly vibraphone and marimba, with bells added at the very end of the work. The song portions return to the same melody, varied and evolved over time, as new materials are introduced in the dance sections, affecting the presentation of the recurring song music. My thanks to the Network for New Music for commissioning this work and allowing me the freedom to choose its format and instrumentation.—Shulamit Ran.
SKU: PE.EP73409
ISBN 9790577018393. 297 x 420 mm inches. English.
One More Weber Opera, a 16-minute work for solo clarinet and orchestra (comprising double wind and brass, timpani and strings), was commissioned for Sabine Meyer and premiered by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993. The composer combines the genres of opera and concert music, giving the clarinet the main role in an ironic view of the language (and clichés) of opera.
This full score (EP 73409) is now available as part of the Peters Baltic Library.
SKU: HL.14013960
UPC: 884088837419. 8.5x11.0x0.155 inches.
Work commissioned by the John Lewis Partnership. Duration 12 minutes.
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.
