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Par NOURSE NANCY. The four preludes included in this collection are each based upon a tune associated with a particular time of the church calendar. The Lenten prelude, Meditation upon 'Forty Days and Forty Nights', likewise employs a theme with interpolations approach. The hymn tune, Heinlein, is most closely associated with the English text, 'Forty days and forty nights, Thou wast fasting in the…

Mary Goetze présente ici un paramètre de la hte variante plus familier de cette ballade folk traditionnelle dans lequel les deux amants faire des demandes impossibles les uns des autres. La texture varie du homophoniques à imitative contrepoint. Brefs dissonances créé et résolus par une progression par étapes des voix qui l'accompagne reflètent la bittersweetness du texte. / Choeur D'Enfants (Ou D…

Lully, Lullay was written at the request of Philip Reed, music director of the Bury St Edmunds Bach Choir, which gave the first performance on 17 December 2011 at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk. Inspired by the familiar medieval text of the Coventry Carol , it is sung a cappella and invokes the sense of a lullaby through its metre and lilting melody. The fragility and bittersweet tonal…

Serenade. Par KREISLER FRITZ. Apart from the collection of Classical Manuscripts composed by the violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) which he had passed off as transcriptions of settings of old masters, the violinist published original works early on as well. Kreisler himself liked to play them as encore pieces, thus sweetening many a concert with this 'musical confectionery'. Famous tunes …

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This three-minute piece for string quartet unites the typical features of Elena Kats-Chernin's compositions: blues harmony, a motor-like rhythm driven by syncopes, bittersweet melodies and austere-poetic sonority. Silver Eucalypt was written in 2006 and recorded in 2012 by the Acacia Quartet on their CD 'Blue Silence' released by Vexations840. Now there is finally a printed edition which may be a …

Opera in Seven Scenes. Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. Playwright Martin Crimp’s text for the opera is a bittersweet fable on grief and renewal. It tells the story of a Woman (mezzosoprano) who has lost her …

The Gallipoli Campaign took place between April 1915 and January 1916 and marked the first significant military engagement for Australia as an independent dominion. The Gallipoli Songbook commemorates this crucial event of the Great War with a collection of contemporary songs relating to the soldiers, the public at home, and the sheer poignancy of such a tragic event, all arranged for Piano, Vocal…

Wonderful Washington pays tribute to this Pacific Northwest state in three engaging movements. 'Spokane Falls' depicts the waterfalls in Riverfront Park through flowing, cross-hand motives, with repeating patterns and syncopated rhythms. 'Seattle Summits' portrays the height of Mount Rainier and the Space Needle by using a broad range of the keyboard. A mysterious sound is achieved through dissona…

Bells Never Ring Sweeter / A Noël les cloches sonnent. Par TRADITIONNEL. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Choeur (SATB) et Brass Band

Edited by Geoffrey Bush and Michael HurdFour glees and madrigals by Pearsall, Stafford, Smith, Walmisley and S. Wesley.SSATBCONTENTSPEARSALL, R.L. Why weeps, alas! my lady-loveSTAFFORD SMITH, J. Blest pair of sirensWALMISLEY, T.A. Sweete floweres! ye were too faireWESLEY, Samuel O sing unto mie Roundelaie