Par VINE CARL. Ring Out, Wild Bells is a short and fantastically vital setting for a Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem composed for an unaccompanied double choir (SSAATTB) by Carl Vine. It premiered as part of the King’s College Cambridge 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes

for Solo Clarinet and Clarinet Choir. Par WEBER CARL MARIA VON. The Concertino of Carl Maria von Weber was originally composed in Spring 1811 over the course of three days for German clarinet virtuoso Heinrich Joseph Baermann. It was a particularly productive year for Weber, as he also composed the two concertos for clarinet, a bassoon concerto, and the clarinet quintet, among other pieces. A tour…

Passionsoratorium. Par LOEWE CARL. Carl Loewe, who today is known only for his Ballades, left behind an extensive musical opus especially created to meet the rapidly growing needs of the emerging middle class during the Biedermeier period [including 15 oratorios]. In the oratorio Das Sühnopfer des neuen Bundes [The Expiatory Sacrifice of the New Covenant], composed during the middle of the 19th ce…

Par WEBER CARL MARIA VON. GRAND DUO CONCERTANTE, OP. 48for Clarinet and PianoComposer: Carl Maria von WeberEditor: Ernest RothThe Grand Duo Concertante, written in 1816, was played in many cities by Heinrich Bärmann (a virtuoso of Munich of the time) and Weber himself and its piano part too shows all the characteristics and the brilliance of Weber's piano style at its best. 44 pages/ Répertoire / …

from Carmina Burana. Par ORFF CARL. Wilfried Hiller arranged three dances from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for the famous klezmer clarinettist Giora Feidman. The version for clarinet and four violoncellos was first performed by him together with the Gershwin Quartet in 2015./ Répertoire / Clarinette et 4 Violoncelles

Par DAVIS CARL. Composed for one of the world's leading saxophonists, John Harle, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Charlie's Flea Circus is a delightful 5-minute work for saxophone and piano by Carl Davis. Taking in waltzes and mazurkas, this characterful and witty work makes a wonderful addition to the repertoire and is presented here in a versions for alto saxophone and piano, or alto d…

Par VINE CARL. Two piano rehearsal score Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind – the others being his first two piano sonatas.  Its composer describes it as ‘a conscious and continuous tribute to the Piano Concerto as a medium and historical entity’, a fact most apparent in the slow movement, with its long mel…

Passionsoratorium. Par LOEWE CARL. Carl Loewe, who today is known only for his Ballades, left behind an extensive musical opus especially created to meet the rapidly growing needs of the emerging middle class during the Biedermeier period [including 15 oratorios]. In the oratorio Das Sühnopfer des neuen Bundes [The Expiatory Sacrifice of the New Covenant], composed during the middle of the 19th ce…

Par VINE CARL. Carl Vine’s Concerto for Orchestra was premiered to critical acclaim by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in October 2014. Its composer describes the way the 20-minute work (like his recent Piano Trio The Village) ‘evolves organically through a chain of episodes to create a web of melodies and harmonies that are related but not identical. This network of ideas is tied together …

Sumer is icumen in. Par ORFF CARL. The first known canon of European art music, now in the British Museum in London, is preserved in a thirteenth-century manusript from the English abbey in Reading: This is the so-called 'summer canon', whose verses greet the advent of summer. An accompanying note elucidates the artistic layer-like construction of the sound structure: a two-voice foundation of bel…

Par DAVIS CARL. The Most Wonderful Birthday Of All, the beautiful Christmas carol written by Norman Newell and Carl Davis, first performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and the Philharmonia Orchestra in December 1985 at the  Barbican Centre, London.   / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes et Piano

Par WEBER CARL MARIA VON. Carl Maria Von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 In F Minor Op. 73 was written in 1811. This concerto is in three dynamic movements, leading us on a powerful and energetic journey of Clarinet discovery. It is substantially more serious than many of this German Romanticist’s other works, and dramatically more expressive. This version is set for Clarinet and Piano accompanime…