Contents include: Let the Whole Creation Cry; Come Thou Almighty King; A Mighty Fortress is Our God; Poor Wayfaring Stranger; On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand; Be Thou My Vision; Built on the Rock; Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow; Nearer My God To Thee; For All the Saints; Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah; Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart; How Firm a Foundation.
This collection features songs that originated from the slave population of North America in the 19th Century. Beset by trouble sickness and backbreaking labor these songs bear witness to the slave longing for heaven where theymight find freedom and comfort. As a musical form the Spiritual stands as a classic expression of religious emotion. Includes: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Go Down Moses a…
Bach inventions represent the height of melodic ingenuity and elegance of the Baroque style presenting the Keyboard-player with substantial and always satisfying technical challenges. This edition contains 15 two-part and 15 three-part inventions suitable for any Keyboard instrument.
Moments of meditiation for solo Piano.Virginia Halberg is a longtime church musician and college-level piano instructor. These arrangements sometimes have a classical feel inspired by such composers as Beethoven Schubert and Debussy. At other times they are flavored with gospel or jazz techniques. Hymn texts are included for personal reference or inclusion in printed programs.
Suites Nos. 1 2 3 and 4-The Eight Great Suites is perhaps Handel's best-known and finest collection of keyboard works. Each of the four suites included here is written in full. This edition includes an informative introduction and a textual notes section. Set for the ABRSM Harpsichord examinations grades 5-7.
This piece has a broad moderately paced first movement which leads to a sparkling scherzo which in turn gives way to an extremely sparsely textured movement that features the horn and its less frequently used techniques. The whole piece turns on this movement then a couple of crisp arpeggios act as a premature cinematic transition into the big finale the longest and the technically most deman…
This energetic piece opens with rumbling eighth notes and New Age harmonies which ask the listener to be ready for adventure. Cosmic Seasons then runs through periodic meter changes accelerando passages and dynamic broad strokes that are both beautiful and (at times) bewildering. Let your imagination fly!
This is the second volume of Modern Piano miniatures by American-Armenian composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee and is intended for Intermediate to early Advanced pianists. The natural musicality present in this tremendous collection of studies demands the same kind of careful attention that we expect from the standard canon of repertoire. These teaching pieces follow in the modern tradition of pedag…
Left Alone for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2014-15. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Premiered by the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Alexandre Tharaud (piano) concducted by Ilan Volkov on January 29 2016 Cologne. Programme…
Two Songs: The Colour And All In Green was expertly composed in 1997 by Sadie Harrison. This piece was first performed for the BMIC Cutting Edge Series in November 2004 at The Warehouse London by Sarah Leonard and Jonathan Powell.Australian born freelance composer and performer Sadie Harrison’s unique fusion of elements from indigenous Lithuanian music and poetry withher own modernist often a…
