Sarah Class’ score for the TV series Africa gives full rein to her talent for evoking contrasting musical moods in outstanding documentaries.Whether it’s the rhythmic progress of rivers and waterfalls adramatic confrontation between two giraffes or varying shades of mercurial behaviour by other wildlife or the natural elements themselves her score always complements the visuals subtly enriching the potency of breath-takingphotography with no hint of intrusion.These selections from her score have been expertly arranged for solo Piano and the collection features some unforgettable images from the acclaimed six-part TV series.
SKU: HL.14043437
ISBN 9781783052622.
20 solo piano arrangements from Sarah Class's score for the BBC Nature Series. Includes full-color photos from the documentary.
SKU: HL.234744
9.0x12.0x0.035 inches.
Composer's Note: The Lullaby from The Unicorns arose from an opera libretto I commissioned from John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) in the late 1960s. In his story two unicorns are discovered in a remote part of Africa. Both the East and West want to obtain them for research so they send out rival expeditions. The Western technique is to lure the unicorn with a young girl singing a lullaby. Both East and West capture unicorns but the mythical animals escape in the end. I never completed the opera but I made a six-movement suite from it called The Unicorns. There are three songs and three instrumental numbers and the first performance was given with Elisabeth Soderstrom and Solna Brass under Lars-Gunnar Bjorklund at Ekensbergskyrkan, Solna, Sweden on 31 October 1982. This version was recorded and my arrangement of the three songs for voice and piano was recorded by Marilyn Hill Smith. The career of the Lullaby continued with a version for clarinet and piano, which I premiered with Jack Brymer aboard the Sea Princess in the Mediterranean on 29 September 1986. The oboe version was for Sarah Francis, and Duke Dobing and I have recorded it for flute an piano. Lullaby can be played with a variety of solo instruments and is also available for piano left hand and piano solo.
