Format : Score and Parts
SKU: HL.4005906
UPC: 888680942793. 9.0x12.0x0.058 inches.
Written in a sophisticated and dynamic style, this work from James Curnow is more impressive sounding than the easy grade level would indicate. Opening with a rhythmic and intense tocatta, this theme is contrasted with a sustained and lyric chorale section. Both themes are combined at the end for a powerful and rewarding finish.
SKU: HL.14025052
UPC: 884088488697. 8.5x11.0x0.125 inches.
The works included in the Hugo Parry Organ Album Book 2 are the Toccata and Fugue (The Wanderer), Chorale Fantasia on O God Our Help and Chorale Fantasia on An Old English Theme.The later years of Organist, teacher and composer Hubert Parry's life were a fruitful time of composition and academic output. In these three works, his commitment to diatonic music and his assimilation of both Brahms and indigenous British music are apparent, as well as his mastery and understanding of his instrument.
SKU: HL.49005319
ISBN 9790001057295. UPC: 073999804775. 9.0x12.0x0.105 inches.
Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) ranks among the major German organ composers of the 20th century, being an excellent organist himself. Many of his more than 100 organ works deal with themes of the Gregorian chorale. The chorale's modal diatonicism which is freer and different than the later major-minor tonality establishes a perfect symbiosis with the free tonality of the contemporary composer. In the five-movement chorale partita, the more than 1,000 years old Mixolydian Whitsun Sequence of Hrabanus Maurus (9th century) is used in an imaginative and formally varied way: as a virtuoso toccata, in the second movement 'ostinato' as a strict trio setting over a seven-bar ostinato in the pedal, as a capriciously playful 'bicinium', and as a meditative, harmonically appealing 'arioso'. The fifth movement (fantasia ricercare) displays brilliant full-handed chords and virtuoso passages as well as a fugato in the middle section. A rewarding concert piece for Whitsun, with an excellent possibility of virtuoso interpretation and colourful registration.
SKU: MN.10-373
UPC: 688670103735.
A stately chorale followed by a fiery toccata on the hymn-tune Darwall's 148th.
SKU: HL.49019879
ISBN 9790001196642. UPC: 888680885854. 12.0x8.75x0.462 inches.
Matthias Weckmann, born in Niederdorla near Muhlhausen (Thuringia) in 1616 and died in Hamburg in 1674, was trained as a musician by Heinrich Schutz in Dresden among others. He worked as an organist in Dresden (Schlosskirche) and Hamburg (St. Jakobi). It is particularly for the Jakobi organ that he wrote his elaborate and virtuoso organ works. Our new edition in the renowned series 'Masters of the North German Organ School' faithfully transfers the works which survived in letter tablature, providing a reliably edited urtext. Volume 1 contains the cantus firmus-based works, 8 authentic verse cycles with 2-7 movements each in which chorale melodies such as 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her', 'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ)' or the 'Magnificat' are varied, as well as a cycle on 'Ach wir armen Sunder' attributed to Weckmann. Volume 2 proves him to a master of concertante organ music, containing 3 works with pedal (Fantasia, Fuga and Praeambulum in D) as well as several moderately difficult works to be played on manuals only (6 toccatas, 5 canzonas). Reliable standard edition of the music by one of the great (North) German organ masters.
SKU: LO.10-3080S
UPC: 000308099652.
Splashy, bright and rhythmic with a driving, toccata-like accompaniment.
SKU: HL.48180116
Composed by Marcel Dupre, Laudate is the last of the Four Motets. Written for a mixed SATB and two organs, the lyrics are in Latin and the volume includes all the scores: female soprano and alto, male tenor and bass and the two organ scores. The piece is introduced by the two organs and the male voices are the first to start singing (tenor, followed quickly by the bass). The full SATB then sings together, sometimes alternated by the organs and the organ parts include an outstanding toccata. Laudate is an amazing way to finish this series with a triumphant and glorious celebration of God. The organ scores require some upper intermediate skills, with the knowledge of pedals and the vocal parts, quite demanding, evolve in polyphony and polyrhythm. Marcel Dupre is a French composer and virtuoso organist who won the Prix de Rome in 1914. He became famous when he played the works of Bach in its totality from memory in 1920. He later became the professor of many renowned students at the Paris Conservatoire such as Olivier Messiaen, Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau amongst others.
SKU: M7.DOHR-16339
ISBN 9790202033395.
Der Text dieses Liedes basiert auf dem Hymnus Christe, qui lux es et dies aus dem 6. Jahrhundert, deutsch von Erasmus Alkberg um 1556. Die Melodie stammt aus Frankfurt am Main 1557, bei Cyriakus Spangenberg 1568 / Seth Calvisius 1597 (GL 90 / EG 469). Bei geistlichen Musiken ist das Stück am besten als Abschluss zu spielen. Das Lied eignet sich besonders als gesamte Choralsuite bei einer Abendandacht mit Textauslegung. (Lothar Graap).
SKU: SU.80101262
This work is a vibrant and dramatic toccata, suitable for postlude or recital use. It is not hard to play, but creates an impressive effect. Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: M7.DOHR-97494
ISBN 9790202004944.
SKU: HL.8773610
UPC: 649325051177. 8.5x11.0x0.066 inches.
SKU: AP.51158
UPC: 038081581958. English. Mark Weston.
It's a spooky twist on a couple of classical themes! Complete with swooping bats, snarling cats, and all kinds of ghostly imagery, this duo can be sung together or separately for any fall or Halloween performance. Listen for the screeching owl hiding within the spine-tingling SoundTrax accompaniment.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
