to the Third Position. Par ALLAIN RICHARD. This collection of piano accompaniments, of easy to intermediate difficulty, will add variety to individual or group tuition using Mackay's classic work and provide attractive material for short yet effective recital items. The piano parts are fully compatible with the parent volume, which contains the original violin melodies published separately, and fr…

Par MACKAY NEIL. Strings/ Méthode / Violon

Par MACKAY NEIL. Strings/ Recueil / Violon et Piano

Par MACKAY NEIL. A Tuneful Introduction To The Third Position does not deal with the changing of position of the Left Hand. The only movement is the initial one from First to Third Position. Once this has been achieved, the hand remains in place throughout each melody. Students should remember to keep the thumb opposite the forefinger when the hand is in Third Position./ Etude / Violon

The full set of Phyllis Tate's Piano accompaniments for the selection of 22 melodies by Neil Mackay devised to aid the development of position-changing skills on the Violin.

A Choral Suite for Two Part (Soprano and Alto) Children's Chorus setting the text of George Mackay Brown. This enchanting 12-minute cycle is typical of the subtle and delicate way Maxwell-Davies approaches writing forchildren: straightforward tender affectionate yet with just a hint of the complexity found in challenging 'adult' works like the cycle Westerlings. George Mackay Brown's poetry wit…

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1990 work for unaccompanied SATB choir written for the BBC singers. Words by George Mackay Brown.'Written for the BBC Singers this piece requires a high level of choral expertise in its rhythms intricate textures (though nearly always in four parts) wide-ranging vocal lines and characteristically dark but luminous harmony impregnated with tritones and seconds. Not for the…

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar.A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear simple images George Mackay Brown'spoem turns through the months of Orkney life and as it turns so the modal music for a modestly able school or amateur choir moves it on its way with images of matching lucidity.V…

A Mediterranean erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice though is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and melismatic and the ensemble plays music that is at once luminous and questioning memorialized and urgently communicative. Five short songs are woven together with instrumental commentaries into a si…

Par ZORO. Mettant en vedette 14 des airs mardis dans ces styles comme le gospel, blues, soul, funk, Go-Go, de new jack swing et hip-hop, ce paquet de jeu ainsi que les documents chronologiquement l'évolution de la RandB tambours des années 1950 grâce à la fin des années 1990. Inclus sont chansons rendus populaires par des légendes de la RandB comme James Brown, The Meters, Aretha Franklin et Janet…

An attractive short piece for Nativity which makes an ideal concert item for unison voices and piano (with words by George Mackay Brown) commissioned by The Times for Christmas 1993.

The inspiring journey of the three kings to Bethlehem is beautifully told through words and music in Peter Maxwell Davies' wonderful setting of George Mackay Brown's text. The piece is arranged for SSAA voices a cappella but aPiano part is provided for rehearsal purposes.

Par CATTLEY SARAH. Written for baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the five Frances Cornford settings of A Square and Candle-Lighted Boat further enhance Sarah Cattley’s reputation as an exciting young composer acutely sensitive to the nuances of English poetry. In addition to familiar sources ranging from ‘a…

This Christmas cantata is an uncanny recapture by Maxwell Davies of a relatively simple modal style: luminous sometimes plaintive sometimes rapturous. A linked series of George Mackay Brown settings designed to give pleasure (ifsometimes strenuous pleasure) to a non-professional choir. A spiritual mystery is glimpsed in an Orcadian setting. Commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus to commemora…

A cantata for tenor and chamber orchestra with words from The Well by George Mackay Brown and a German translation by Gunther Bauer Schenk. The centre-piece of a chamber orchestra trilogy (see also Sinfonia Concertante andSinfonietta Accademica) and is a symphonic song-cycle in five continuous movements. The text ponders the influence of modern times on ancient ways of life.Into The Labyrinth is …