Will Todd born in 1970 is forging a strong reputation for himself as a composer who is equally at ease in opera oratorio church music and jazz. His style is instantly accessible and lastingly memorable. He spent his formative years steeped in both jazz and the English choral tradition so in his choral music he is able to juxtapose strong rhythmic drive and rich harmonies with exquisitely lyric…

Although quite some time has passed since the multifaceted organ music from Spain's Golden Age could be called an 'insider's tip?, it had yet to attain popularity with any wide audience outside the countries of the Iberian Peninsula. The three-volume Urtext edition of selected works by Joan Cabanilles, the cathedral organist from Valencia, now has every chance of becoming a milestone in its own ri…

Bank Holiday (R.36) is a short celebratory piece for Solo Piano. It was composed in 1925 and dedicated to Gordon Bryan. Around the same time the composer starting living a carefree life with Peter Warlock inthe countryside and the piece reflects the freedom and happiness he was obviously feeling. There are also hints of Percy Grainger and John Ireland which the astute listener may spot.Ernest …

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was an English composer and teacher perhaps best known for his choral music in the Anglican tradition. His String Quartet No.3 (In Gloucestershire) has a somewhat chequered history: originally finished in 1916 the only copy of the score was left on a train and lost forever! In the 1920s Howells rewrote the work incorporating the themes he could remember from the or…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Wie Schön Leuchtet Der Morgenstern (How Bright And Fair The Morning Star) BWV 1. Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day. The cantata “ Wie Schön Leuchtet Der Morgenstern ” BWV 1 was written for 25 March 1725, when the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary coincided with Palm Sunday. It forms the conclusion of Bach ’s cantata cycle of 1724/25. The anonymous lib…

Song cycle for medium voice and piano based upon the poetry of Ivor Gurney and Leonard Clark. A set of pieces very much in the English lyrical vocal writing tradition of Butterworth Ireland and of course Gurney.'The Pine Boughs Past Music is a song cycle baseed upon poetry associated with Gloucester and was commissioned to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the Gloucester Music Society. Ha…

HWV 283-Handel's Dettinger Te Deum was composed to celebrate England’s victory over the French at the Battle of Dettingen. This is Handel’s last and most successful setting of the Te Deum and reveals a deep understanding of the English church music tradition.The sound impact of this broadly conceived work is governed by the choirs in an almost theatrical exegesis of the text. Particularly stri…

Full Score A4-A work born out of the English Romantic tradition and yet firmly of the 21st century. The outer movements are full of rhythmic energy and virtuosic clarinet writing which contrast with the hauntingly beautiful middlemovement.

'Marco Polo' is an opera about journeys and marks a further stage in the composer Tan Dun (now best known for his work on the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)'s own journey - an exploration of a new language of musicand performing arts through the fusion of Western avant-garde style with Eastern accent. The spiritual journey - the cycle of the spirit and of Nature - coexists with a physical j…

for SATB accompanied and unaccompanied This short collection of carols from The New Oxford Book of Carols and The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols includes an introduction performance notes translations and brief commentaries. The edition is lightly edited and fully compatible with the parent collections.

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La série année par année s'appuie sur la Boosey and Hawkes catalogue riche et varié du répertoire classique, contemporaine et de l'éducation , en soulignant compositeurs dont Serge Prokofieff , Dmitri Chostakovitch , Karl Jenkins , Carol Barratt et Christopher Norton , à côté des arrangements de musique traditionnelle du monde entier par Peter Wastall , Vera Gray et autres .Soigneusement sélection…

La série année par année s'appuie sur la Boosey and Hawkes catalogue riche et varié du répertoire classique, contemporaine et de l'éducation , en soulignant compositeurs dont Serge Prokofieff , Dmitri Chostakovitch , Karl Jenkins , Carol Barratt et Christopher Norton , à côté des arrangements de musique traditionnelle du monde entier par Peter Wastall , Vera Gray et autres .Soigneusement sélection…