Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused a sensation at its world première performance, sung in English, in Birmingham UK in August 1846. The huge forces marshalled for the occasion delighted the audience, who demanded no fewer than eight encores and loudly acclaimed the composer despite an injunction to observe the solemnity of the occasion by refraining from ap…

Par SMITH PAUL. A beautiful and flowing work for SATB choir, SATB solo quartet and piano, with textures that celebrate love, cherishing our place among the stars. A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. The music and texts link to form a narrative that questions what sort of ‘New Wo…

(Spiritus Sancti gratia). Par HAKIM NAJI. Des heiligen Geistes reiche Gnade (Spiritus Sancti gratia) by Naji Hakim is a chorale prelude based on a melody by Melchior Vulpius. It is a contribution to the Orgelbüchlein Project, a major international composition project, led by William Whitehead, to complete Johann Sebastian Bach’s unfinished Orgelbüchlein./ Répertoire / Orgue

Par PROST NICOLAS. Adolphe Sax, inventeur génial du saxophone (breveté en 1846) est nommé au poste de Directeur de la Musique de Scène à l'Opéra de Paris entre 1847 et 1894. C'est la place idéale pour promouvoir et expérimenter ses instruments à l'orchestre - l'inventeur finit par imposer le saxophone dans certaines oeuvres lyriques, symphoniques, musiques de ballets et bien sûr les musiques régim…

Par WEIR JUDITH. This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cummings (O Sweet Spontaneous), William Carlos Williams (Peace on Earth) and Emily Dickinson (I reason, Earth is short ) - each reflecting on the Earth and mankind’s experience of livin…

Par MITCHELL HAROLD. L'étude et la pratique ne suffisent généralement pas pour qu'un musicien autodidacte atteigne un niveau professionnel. L'importance du professeur est primordiale pour conseiller, corriger et faire en sorte que l'étude de l'instrument se fasse naturellement et le plus agréablement possible, en fonction de la personnalité de l'élève. Le but de cette méthode est de procurer à l'é…

Par BULLA STEPHEN. All right. Admit it. When you were a kid, some of your favorite music came from cartoonland. Who knows? It may have been cartoons that first introduced you to your favorite classical masters. Would Rossini's 'William Tell Overture' be what it is today had there been no cartoons? Isn't the glissando the REAL reason your Trombone section decided to play that particular instrument?…

Par DUFOURT HUGUES. Dawn Flight est le titre d'une toile que le graveur et peintre britannique Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) réalisa en 1959. Sa formation scientifique - chimie, géologie - son habileté mathématique furent un atout considérable dans ses recherches de matières et de couleurs, qui peuvent atteindre des tons fluorescents. Hayter, qui fut l'une des premières figures du mouvement s…

Portia's Palace Orchestra. Par WIREN DAG. Dag Wirén (1905-1986) came to fame as a composer in 1937 with Serenade for string orchestra, Op. 11, which remains his most played work to date. His opus list is mainly instrumental music; five symphonies, five string quartets, several overtures and a lot of film and theatre music. He composed the stage music for William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Ven…

Par COHEN MARY. Bags of Classics for Cello is filled with favourite melodies from famous works of classical music, arranged for the grade 3-4 player who is developing position work and perhaps trying vibrato. Selected and arranged by leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen to lie well under the hand, it introduces a wide variety of styles and sound worlds, from Vivaldi and Purcell to Saint-Saens and H…

Tarik O'Regan's Mass Observation was commissioned for the University of Michigan Chamber Choir, Jerry Blackstone, conductor, thanks to support from the William K. and Delores S. Brehm Choral Commissioning Fund and the Barbara Abramoff Levy Fund. Composer's note: Mass Observation is a meditation on the histories of our varied ambivalent relationships with surveillance in its myriad guises. The use …

William Blake était un génie polyvalent universelle - poète, peintre, graveur et philosophe du cuivre - qui, dans le visage du siècle des Lumières a un fondement rationnel mis le culte de l'extase, de l'énergie, l'intuition et l'imagination au-dessus de toute raison. Il a été inspiré par une vision du prophète Ezéchiel comme un enfant et se mit à construire un cosmos créatifs constitués de mythes,…