Arrangeur: Alexander L'Estrange. Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. More Songs of a Rainbow Nation brings you four more songs from South Africa for mixed voices, in beautifully crafted arrangements by Alexander L'Estrange. The selection opens with Freedom is Coming, a joyful, infectious celebration of hope and freedom from oppression, and the hugely popular Siyahamba is also featured. Both songs form part …

for four male voices. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Glorious Hill may be performed by a male choir. Text by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1497) from De Hominis Dignitate. Glorious Hill was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and first performed by them at its summer Festival of Voices in Lewes, Sussex, in August 1988. It was the first piece I wrote for the ensemble and I focused on the singers' unique abilit…

Arrangeur: Alexander L'Estrange. Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. More Songs of a Rainbow Nation brings you four more songs from South Africa for upper voices, in beautifully crafted arrangements by Alexander L'Estrange. The selection opens with Freedom is Coming, a joyful, infectious celebration of hope and freedom from oppression, and the hugely popular Siyahamba is also featured. Both songs form part …

Par LIFERMAN / MAREUIL. La Lune Est Morte is a piece for SATB containing the score for Mixed voices or Equal voices, on music by Georges Liferman. With lyrics by Jacques Mareuil, this lyrical piece is quite melancholy: ; Cry Pierrots, Poets and Black cats, the Moon is dead being the main recurrent sentence. The chorus is sung by all voices, while the verses lyrics are only sung by the Tenor and th…

Par DUBOIS THEODORE. Treatise of Harmony & Bass and Voices is an absolute must-have volume on harmonies by Theodore Dubois. Written in the last century (1921), this book includes the two parts of the treatise: Part 1 & Basses and Part 2 & Voices. This volume is quite complex, requires some strong theory knowledge and would be playable by upper-advanced players and professionals. It also features n…

Par NEILSEN KATIE. Inside Music is a music education programme pioneered and devised by Michael Stocks. A much respected name in the world of music education, he served as an advisor for the English Education sector for many years as well as being a founder member, along with Principal Suzi Digby, of the Voices Foundation. Inside Music has been built on Michael’s many years of teaching experience…

Thomas Campion's Never weather-beaten sail is a sprightly text that powerfully evokes the sailor's plea for God's calming presence upon the sea's unrelenting rushing waves. At the opening of this work for unaccompanied mixed voices, the jaunty alto/tenor movement in thirds symbolises the curling waves of the undulating sea, the mellifluous soprano melody represents the boat's sails, and the bass s…

Dvorák, Antonín
Five Moravian Duets B 107
Arrangement for 4 Female Voices a cappella by the Composer
- First scholarly-critical edition
- The popular “Moravian Duets” in an arrangement by the composer
- Ideal for professional as well as amateur singers (female choir)
- With Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor
Dvorák composed the cycl…

Instrument: Upper VoicesGenre: Christmas musicLangue: LatinPages: 20 ppDate du parution: Novembre 2002

This song is the second movement of Todd's 'Songs of Peace', written in memory of the composer's mother, Iris Todd, who died in 2012. The text (by the composer: 'A gift so pure, life so precious, gifted to me') is intentionally ambiguous suggesting both the gift of the Christ child and less specific gift of life. This work could therefore be used as a Christmas carol as well as more generally.The …

Par MACONCHY ELIZABETH. Two Carols by Elizabeth Maconchy comprises two songs for unaccompanied upper voices: I sing of a maiden and This day, both originally conceived in 1966, with words from fifteenth-century texts. While contrasting in character, both embody a richly expressive harmony, with opportunity in each for the upper soprano part to be sung solo (or by a small group of voices, if prefer…

Tovet Donald (Ed). Par TOVEY DONALD FRANCIS. 34 Latin Motets for female voices in 2-4 parts by Lassus, Victoria, Palestrina, Gabrièli and Croce and a 5-part Kyrie by Mozart. All have English translations. CONTENTS AGOSTINI, Paolo: Adoramus te CONSTANTINI, Alessandro: Confitemini Domino CROCE: Et resurrexit GABRIÈLI, Andrea: Crucifixus LASSO, Orlando di: Adoramus te (1); Adoramus te (2); Agimus tib…

Par DICKENS EMILY. This 5 minute arrangement by Emily Dickens for VOCES8 draws together a pair of stunningly emotive melodic lines from the Scottish and Irish folk traditions: My Lagan Love and She Moved Through the Fair. The lower voices create a drone on which the tenor and upper voices explore the beautifully simple and instantly recognisable harmonies of these folk songs. / Choral Music / Rec…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…