SKU: A0.982800

Variations on the traditional song We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The variations are inspired by different musical styles: Classical, Romantic, Messiaenic (in memory of Olivier Messiaen), Minimal Toccata and Punctual.

SKU: S9.Q7340

Born in Beirut and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, the organist and composer Naji Hakim (*1955) has won numerous prizes both as a creative and as a performing artist. After having worked as an organist in Paris for many years, for example as successor to Olivier Messiaen at La Trinité, he has been composer-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2004. For the 100th anniversary of the Binns organ at the Albert Hall in Nottingham he was commissioned to write 'Fanfare for Nottingham'. The composer designed the work as 'a series of free and energetic variations on the melody of the hymn Nottingham accompanying a merry procession' – it has become a hymnic and effective work, a valuable addition to the organ repertoire.

SKU: A0.1207069

Birds from Another Planet - Piotr Scholz

Birds from Another Planet is a seven-part composition for big-band. Each of them is based on one symmetrical scale defined by Olivier Messiaen and maintained in a different jazz style. The scales were used mainly in a big-band arrangement, but often the construction of individual improvised fragments forces soloists to use symmetrical scales, in jazz commonly not used as a separate color or timbre. 

Grand Prize on 2nd ISAC International Popular Music Composition Competition 2023

INSTRUMENTATION: 

Wind 1 (Soprano Saxophone)
Wind 2 (Alto Saxophone)
Wind 3 (Tenor Saxophone)
Wind 4 (Tenor Saxophone)
Wind 5 (Baritone Saxophone)

Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2, Flugelhorn
Trumpet 3
Trumpet 4

Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Trombone 3
Bass Trombone

Guitar
Piano
Double Bass
Drums.

SKU: A0.1027605

The Missa Sanctae Mariae Virginis – literally Mass of Saint Mary the Virgin – was composed for the Episcopal church of Saint Mary the Virgin, New York City, where the composer was Music Director & Organist from 2008 to 2013. The Kyrie was composed in 2016. The title makes reference to the name of the church, but also makes reference to the principal source of inspiration: two ancient plainsong melodies that accompany Marian texts (Salve regina and Ave maris stella). The Mass is composed in a vain that is influenced by the great parody Masses of Renaissance masters Palestrina, Lassus, and others. Nods are also made to the twentieth century, and particularly to the music of Herbert Howells and the Anglican tradition, and also to Jean Langlais, Olivier Messiaen, and similar French musical trends. It features a wide range of moods, from scintillating and exotic harmonies to thrilling rhythmic passages. The work is composed for 8-part choir with solo sections for additional voices from within the choir. The Mass can be performed complete as part of a church service. Likewise, any of the movements will work as independent compositions which makes them suitable for concert performance. Please visit www.jameskennerley.com for complete biographical information and for links to recorded performances of this work.

SKU: A0.886684

Egomia, Concert Monologues, for Wind Quintet (2009)
Ι. Stasis I, Lento, come un recitativo
II. Stasis II, L ‘istesso tempo, molto ritmico
III. Stasis III, Passacaglia Ritmica, L ‘istesso tempo, grave
    A work of free serialism, composed on the ritual of the Egomia, a very famous litany of the Eastern Orthodox Church which takes place on Holly Friday.
  It consist of 3 parts, 3 Stasis, according to the traditional ritual. The unaccompanied monologues of the 1st Stasis lead to the virtuosic dialogues of the 2nd and to the general fortissimo tutti of the 3d. The work has a version with narration on the prototype text of the traditional ritual.
    It was written on November 2009 for the Q innegal Wind Quintet which gave the premier at the German Evangelic Church in Athens next year and is dedicated to composer’s stepmother, Eleni, who died after the completion of the work. The 3d part has also a dedication to Olivier Messiaen, on the musical style of whom there are intentional references. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BNVUEHBdhg