SKU: CA.2729303
ISBN 9790007171797. Text language: Latin.
Antonin Dvorak's impressive Stabat Mater for soloists, chorus and orchestra is probably the best-known of the composer's sacred works. Some painful experiences - in 1875 his first daughter died, and in 1877 he lost two other children in quick succession - may have led to Dvorak's preoccupation with the suffering of the Mother of God, who stands weeping beneath the cross of her son. The music enters into the different moods of the liturgical texts with great sensitivity. Nine movements in slow to moderate tempi serve as a kind of Passion meditation, before the ecstasy of a vision of the resurrection wins the upper hand at the end of the tenth movement. With our newly-published arrangement for chamber orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, timpani, and strings), smaller choirs now have the opportunity of performing this work without the choir being drowned out by a large-scale symphony orchestra. The symphonic character of the work is nevertheless preserved. This scoring offers an optimal balance between transparency and orchestral sound. All vocal parts (soloists and chorus) are identical with the original version. Vocal score and choral score can be used also together with the original version, which is in preparation.
SKU: CA.2729305
ISBN 9790007181086. Text language: Latin.
SKU: AP.36-M328691
UPC: 660355086960. English.
Songs: 1. For Me the Jasmine Buds (text by Florence Earle Coates), 2. Ecstasy (text by the composer), 3. Golden Gates (text author unknown, though it was published in a journal called Our Dumb Animals, which was published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.
SKU: FG.042-08322-2
ISBN 979-0-042-08322-2.
Written for the Tapiola Children's Choir, Tapiolassa (In Tapiola) takes its text from the Finnish folk-epic Kalevala, in particular a section telling of the haunts of the mysterious forest spirit Tapio. The piece unites the ancient songs of the bards with Bergman's own conception of the myth. We are brought into contact with a rough and archaic world, where monody and two-part writing breaks out into free tonality and polyphonic texture. Lyricism is combined with dramatic power and childish playfulness with shamanistic ecstasy.
SKU: OU.9780193861299
ISBN 9780193861299. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB and piano This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental colour. Both the singer and the audience will be swept up in the ecstasy of the birth and the peacefulness of renewal.
