Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2017, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784543075)
Written for a wedding in 2006, Love is beautiful indeed sets an extraordinary poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61), part of the tenth sonnet in Sonnets from the Portuguese.It begins unaccompa...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2016, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542221)
This setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem Pied Beauty was commissioned by the Rev Jim Bates, Vicar of Kingston, for the service in Kingston Parish Church celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The firstperformance was given...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2016, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542375)
This carol was commissioned in 2002 by King’s College, Cambridge for their famous service of Nine Lessons and Carols. It tells the start of the familiar Christmas story: Gabriels Annunciation; praise to the Virgin beforeshe too sings my so...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2016, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542436)
A lively carol setting the anonymous 16th-century text ‘All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est ( The word was made flesh)”, originally composed for the choirs of Harrow School, England. The main SATBchorus is supported...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2016, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542443)
This work was commissioned by the Friends of Cathedral Music to mark their Diamond Jubilee in 2016, with the intention of performance by as many of the affiliated choirs as possible.Naturally a celebratory anthem was envisaged but with a text that is...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2016, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542474)
Let all the world in every corner sing was commissioned by Colston’s Girls’ School in Bristol for the Chamber Choir and their Director of Music Matthew Redman, and was written in August 2008 for the service to mark the school’s acquisition of Academy...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, noot, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540623)
This simple carol for two-part upper voices was commissioned by Jenni Wake-Walker in 2008 and is a setting of an anonymous 15th century text celebrating the Nativity. It was written specifically for children of primary schoolage, and with this in...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, Vokaal-noodid, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540951)
A setting of Psalm 45 (46) in Latin commissioned by the Leeds Festival Chorus and first performed by them in Leeds Town Hall in March 2014, conducted by Simon Wright. The work features a variety of choral and organ textures, tempi and moods over its...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, Vokaal-noodid, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784541026)
New settings of the two evening canticles which incorporate jazz elements, including harmony in voice parts and organ and many ‘blue’ notes. Despite these jazz elements, the music is very approachable, with natural syncopation and mostly homophonic w...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, Vokaal-noodid, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784541033)
New settings of the two evening canticles which incorporate jazz elements, including harmony in voice parts and organ and many ‘blue’ notes. Despite these jazz elements, the music is very approachable, with natural syncopation and mostly homophonic w...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, Vokaal-noodid, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784541057)
Commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Guildford to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Cathedral, The Holy Spirit sets a text by the poet and novelist Evelyn Underhill with masterful word-painting.Although there is some org...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, Vokaal-noodid, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784541149)
Commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and first performed at the 2015 ACDA Convention in Salt Lake City, this setting of the Gloria text from the Christian Mass (in Latin) is a highly energetic, rhythmic piece with a contrasting,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, noot, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784541194)
Sweet was the Song is a traditional English carol dating from the 16th century depicting the Virgin Mary singing a lullaby to the new-born Jesus. This setting for mixed voices (no divisi) and organ reflects the text with gentlerocking phrases, sta...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2015, noot, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784541514)
This lively carol was commissioned in 2005 by Lichfield Cathedral Special Choir (now called the Cathedral Chorus) to celebrate the birth of Hannah Scriven and Holly Mason, the daughters of the two cathedral organists at thattime. The words were sp...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2014, noot, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540326)
“O Lux Beata” (‘O Blessed Light’) was commissioned by The Fotheringhay Singers (Marius Carney, conductor). The work, a setting of a 4th-century hymn text ascribed to St Ambrose of Milan, contrasts a plainsong style melody over the organ pedals with t...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2014, noot, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540432)
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 b...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2013, noot, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9780851627786)
Composed in 1980 and revised in 2010 this is a setting of verses from Aquinas’s Pange lingua in modern English translation. The choral writing is appropriately hymn-like, with one a cappella passage. The organ part comprises a flowing two-part canoni...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
(Ilmumisaeg: 2013, Choral Score, Kirjastus: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9780851628820)
Hewitt Jones’ timeless new carol Baby in an oxs stall beautifully captures the joyful essence of Christmas and is sure to become a popular addition to choral seasonal repertoire. Featuring text written by the composer, this accessible carol is avai...Loe edasi...
