/ Piano
SKU: FP.FWS10
ISBN 979-0-57050-321-6.
The collected songs for voice and piano of aclaimed choral conductor and arranger Stephen Wilkinson. This album includes settings of Marvell's poem The Garden, a joyful expression of horticultural delights that cleverly combines an almost atonal idiom with elements of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. The title work The Sunlight on the Garden is a setting of the MacNeice poem of the same name, and evokes darker moods of wartime by the use of a constantly evolving harmonic palette. In the field of choral music, Stephen Wilkinson is a genius. (Yorkshire Post) Simply a great choral conductor (South China Times) No praise could overstate the merits of Stephen Wilkinson's direction (The Guardian).
SKU: HL.14033258
ISBN 9780711991576. English(UK).
A delightful collection of seven songs with narration especially written for young children by Jennifer Porter, arranged by Alison Hedger. The songs follow the preparation of the garden, sowing seeds, discovering flowers, harvesting vegetables and picking fruit. Each song can be sung individually, or performed in sequence any time of year, as a mini-musical lasting approximately 20 minutes. Several of the songs are ideal for use in the autumn at harvest celebrations. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.
SKU: HL.380307
UPC: 196288018896. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches. Genesis 2:8, Isaiah 51:3, Mark 16:1-4, Matthew 28:5-6.
One of the most beloved hymns of all time is touched with tender grace in this a cappella beauty. Arranged to ensure success, this approachable setting tugs at the heart with expressive harmonies and elegant voicing. The message of Mary's encounter with Jesus in the garden always reminds us that we never walk alone.
SKU: LB.269
Ginger Pratt was a sweet wonderful friend who was also a master gardener. She and her husband Earl had a beautiful large garden and shared their bounty of okra, flowers, tomatoes and other luscious fruits and vegatables with their many thankful neighbors.
SKU: AP.49552
ISBN 9781470649081. UPC: 038081569864. English.
Taking a page from the humorous and energetic movie, Gnomeo & Juliet, this fun piece depicts the famous garden gnomes of England dancing and entertaining in their flower and vegetable gardens. A perfect concert or contest piece! (2:18).
SKU: BT.MUSM570367313
English.
Hortus Musicae - Book 2 by Robert Saxton for solo Piano. Composed and published in 2016. Duration: 35 minutes. 1: The Flowers appear on the Earth 2: Light on the Water Garden 3: The Garden of Changing Perspective 4: Beech Bank (a la recherché)… 5: Light in the hedge garden 6: The Garden at twilight 7: Hortus Animae Alis Fugacis [The Garden of the Swift-Winged Spirit] Hortus Musicae Book 2 was premiered by Clare Hammond at the 2016 Presteigne festival, with funds provided by the RVW Trust.
SKU: HL.49046182
ISBN 9781540050281. UPC: 888680931278. 8.5x11.0x0.265 inches.
The Tower and the Garden is a setting of three poems for choir and string quartet. The texts juxtapose the dangers of technological hubris (the tower) and the need for a place of refuge (the garden) in a world threatened by war and ecological disaster. Each text suggest ways in which Catholic thought and imagery might challenge the status quo. The first text, poem 80 from the collection “Cables to the Ace,†was written by Trappist monk and social activist Thomas Merton. It is an eschatological meditation on the garden of Gethsemane, where Christ's disciples slept on the eve of his crucifixion. Merton compares their slumber to society’s indifference to the destruction of our natural world by potentially dangerous new technologies and war. The second text was written by poet and Catholic activist Denise Levertov. It is a meditation on the Tower of Babel and the tendencyfor technology in the information and nuclear age to serve only its own growth and to potentially destroy our lives in the bargain. The third poem, written by Keith Garebian, is an homage to queer filmmaker Derek Jarman and his cottage garden at Dungeness on the English coast. Situated precariously between a towering nuclear power plant and the sea, the garden was Jarman’s austere refuge during the final months of his struggle with AIDS. While an atheist and highly critical of the church, Derek Jarman was intrigued bythe role religious and hagiographic narratives could play in his filmic indictments of Thatcher-era Britain. This is most notable inhis film The Garden, which was shot on location in Dungeness. Gregory Spears.
SKU: PR.411411640
ISBN 9781491137642. UPC: 680160691098. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis novel by Giorgio Bassani.
Based on Bassani’s 1962 novel, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS dramatizes the true story of a prosperous Jewish family’s disruptions and consequences from state-mandated antisemitism in Italy during World War II. Gordon describes the opera as “romantic, sun-drenched, and cataclysmic, all at the same time.” This dramatically topical and personal grand opera premiered at New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene to rave reviews in 2022. Chris Ruel wrote in OperaWire, “I have chosen Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS as my favorite opera of 2022.”.At one point, in 2008, I was walking down 72nd Street, and I passed the video store, (this is when there were video stores) and I thought to myself, I wonder if Kevin (my partner) has ever seen The Garden of the Finzi-Continis? which was always one of my favorite movies. My reaction when we watched it that night was unlike any other time I had seen it. I was wrenched, sobbing, inconsolable. My heart felt like the autumn leaves we see blowing through the garden at the end of the movie. It seemed immediately that this had to be my next opera. I called Michael Korie, and we both bought the Bassani novel and read it. We settled on it. It felt clear that we both had a collective story to tell through it.Because this opera is so close to both of our hearts, it is dedicated to our fathers.It is not only that The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a Holocaust story that makes it so resonant for me, though obviously this is no small matter, but the tragedy of people trying to live their lives, or actually living them, their petty disappointments, their heartbreaks, against the backdrop of total catastrophe… that makes it so moving. They cannot possibly imagine what will befall them, but we know… and this makes their every move fascinating and devastating… like watching moths under a glass. It is romantic, sun-drenched and cataclysmic, all at the same time.This is why I had to write it.
SKU: FG.55009-402-4
ISBN 979-0-55009-402-4.
According to Rautavaara The name of the work is a quotation from the libretto of my opera The House of the Sun: . . .like a butterfly in a dark autumn garden. . .. The motif to which these words are sung is the theme for the variations in the first movement. Their texture gradually grows and becomes denser. Following on without a break is a slow, poetic movement of even rhythms and dynamics. The quick, lively finale begins giocoso e leggiero. But autumn is also a time of colour, and of death. At the end the music thus turns into a festive dance con grandezza. Maybe it bears the echo of a sarabande to the dying splendour of summer - or as T.S. Eliot put it: late roses filled with early snow. Autumn Gardens was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and premiered at the London Proms in July 1999.
