Bredon Hill (C - G)Is my team ploughing? (E flat - E flat)Lads in their hundreds, The (C sharp - E)Look not in my eyes (C - F)Loveliest of trees (C sharp- F)O fair enough are sky and plain (B flat - E flat)On the idle hill of summer (C sharp - F)Think no more, lad (C sharp - E)When I was one and twenty (D - E)When the lad for longing sighs (D - E)With rue my heart is laden (C sharp - E) / Soprano…

Par FLIGHT JAMES. A Short Sonata is a work written at around Grade 8 standard for Euphonium and Piano. In each of the work's three movements, different qualities of the instrument are utilised and explored. In the first movement, an Allegro in 6/8 time, these qualities are the instrument's general agility, and its ability to play fast-moveing melodies in a way that drives the music forward. Throug…

Par OGDEN NIGEL. Easy liturgical organ music in an accessible modern style is always welcome, and Nigel Ogden, well-known contributor to Stainer & Bell’s ‘Light Organ’ series and host of ‘the Organist Entertains’ on BBC Radio 2, has composed fifteen new pieces for use within the communion service or other acts of worship. They are suitable both for traditional and electronic keyboard instruments, …

Par BLOW JOHN. Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich. Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century, the master of an individual school that merged cont…

Book 2. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Compiled by Kenneth Bowen and Geoffrey Pratley CONTENTS Se povero il ruscello (from 'Ezio') D - A Tergi l'ingiuste lagrime (from 'Ezio') C - G La gloria in nobil alma (from 'Partenope') C - G Alzo al volo (from 'Radamisto') D - A Prigioniera hò l'alma in pena (from 'Rinaldo') E - A Pastorello d'un povero armento (from 'Rodelinda') D - F sharp Empio, per farti g…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In the 50th anniversary year of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, this highly attractive arrangement for piano of one of his most popular works will surely find its way into the repertoire of many pianists. Treasured by organists, but no less admired in its orchestral arrangement often heard on Classic FM, this delightful prelude on the Welsh hymn tune known as Rhosy…

Publication of the complete English sacred music of George Jeffreys (c.1610–1685) opens a window on the achievement of one of the few pre-Commonwealth composers wholeheartedly committed to the contemporary Italianate stile nuovo. Besides a quantity of sacred works in Latin, there are 26 surviving English anthems and devotional pieces, plus three settings from the Communion Service, an impressive …

Three movements for solo cornet in B flat. Ar y Mynydd Prydferth Cymreig (On The Beautiful Welsh Mountain) is a colourful, programmatic piece in three short movements, depicting scenes of Welsh mountains, valleys, caves and a hero, armed only with his trusty cornet, encounters a legendary red dragon. Ar y Mynydd Prydferth Cymreig was highly commended by the judges in the first Stainer & Bell Award…

With Rondo Capriccioso In E, Op. 14. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. / Répertoire / Piano

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In his Prelude ? The Truth from Above, outstanding arranger and curator Paul Hindmarsh has distilled the essence of a timeless Christmas classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams into five minutes of ravishingly unforgettable music for brass band. The variants of the Herefordshire tune popular from the Fantasia on Christmas Carols and The Oxford Book of Carols are skilfully and…

Par ARCHER MALCOLM. With Sleigh Bells across the Snow, renowned recitalist and composer of popular church music Malcolm Archer reveals another facet of his talented musicianship ? namely, his love of light music and his mastery of the theatre organ. With this addition to Stainer and Bell?s stylish Light Organ Series, Sleigh Bells across the Snow was conceived in the spirit of Leroy Anderson, and j…