Winter with all its moods has always been captured by composers in their music: Inspired by romantic walks in winter, dancing snowflakes, a look out of windows covered with ice-ferns, or an adventurous sleigh-ride, such musical winter dreams often became well-known and popular classics.The edition Winter Dreams contains a large number of these works, like the famous melodies from J.S. Bach's Chris…

Fantasias and Selected Works. Par BYRD WILLIAM. William Byrd is one of the great English composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Today this creative Catholic at the Anglican court of Elisabeth I is known primarily for his masses, motets and madrigals. However, in addition to vocal music he also composed an impressive number of keyboard pieces that brook comparison in quality with thos…

Edited by Andrew Ashbee and Bruce BellinghamThe first of three volumes presenting the surviving instrumental music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger. Contrapuntally sophisticated his fantasias were admired throughout Europe and laid the foundations for the development of 17th-century English consort music. A complete recording of the four-part fantasias is available through the New England Chapte…

Warm-ups for Successful Performance-Handel's Messiah: Warm-Ups For Successful Performance has been specially designed to help choirs who are preparing to sing Handel's Messiah. This valuable resource is a must for every choral director responsible for guiding the performance of this cherished yet challenging work. The book is available as a Director's Score or Singer's Edition and each is broken i…

Facsimile of the autograph score in the British Library London-The first performance of George Frideric Handel???s oratorio ???Messiah??? on 13 April 1742 in Dublin aroused unqualified rapture. A newspaper report a few days later declared that it combined ???the Sublime the Grand and the Tender???. Its success has remained undiminished ever since and the ???Messiah??? has taken its place in …

Albert W Ketèlbey's most popular works appear to have been a series of Orchestral tone poems like In a Persian Market that incorporate exoticism and demonstrate the high quality of his Orchestration. The Orchestral version of this piece included a Vocal line of male Voices calling for baksheesh which is absent from the Organ arrangement.Composer and arranger Albert W Ketèlbey is now almost un…

British composer and pianist Albert W. Ketelbey's original 'In A Persian Market' arranged for the piano.

Nine Persian Folk Songs: Set No. 2

7 Persian Folk Songs: Set No. 7

In A Persian Market - Intermezzo Scene by Albert W. Ketelbey arranged for violin with piano accompaniment.

The first performance of Messiah took place at the New Music Hall in Dublin on April 13 1742. It was received with huge acclaim the Dublin Journal proclaiming that 'Messiah was allowed by the greatest Judges to be thefinest Composition of Musick that ever was heard'. By the time of the composer's death in 1758 Messiah had already attained an iconic status it has never relinquished.

This cassette recording accompanies the songbook A Bookful Of Asia

INSTRUMENTATION : ORCHESTRA VERSION : STUDY SCORE CONTENU : PROGRAMME/PROGRAMM - EINE STEPPENSKIZZE AUS MITTEL-ASIEN/IN THE STEPPES OF CENTRAL ASIA NOMBRE DE PAGES : 28 COLLECTION : EULENBURG MINIATURE SCORES FORMAT : ETP SMALL

In the Steppes of Central Asia