Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early concerti, which are among the most recorded and performed works in the Baroque repertoire. This volume reprints, complete and unabridged, seven complete concerti for solo key…

Par GLASS PHILIP. This piece premiered in 2018 in Lincoln, Nebraska, played by pianist Paul Barnes and the Chiara Quartet. 'Meditative...striking...touchingly played by Barnes and the quintet, 'Annunciation' is a romantic, late-period Glass masterwork.'-Lincoln Journal Star/ Répertoire / Quintette avec Piano

Par GOODALL HOWARD. Commissioned for the congregation and choir of St Francis Church, Simon’s Town, South Africa, this beautiful choral work by Howard Goodall sets a moving text attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. Combining Goodall’s trademark lyricism with a striking trumpet countermelody and accessible organ accompaniment, Promises of grace exhibits all the features that Goodall’s music is so l…

The Piano Player: Classical Favourites presents 20 of the most popular pieces of classical music, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams and O mio babbino caro by Puccini. The striking cover features Edward Bawden’s colour linocut Aesop’s Fables: Daw in Borrowed Feathers, 1970, and …

Bach composed his oratorio for the Feast of the Ascension in Leipzig in 1735. Though this work has the duration of a cantata, the choice of text places it among the oratorios. It combines the biblical account of the Ascension with chorales and free madrigal poems.As in other works which were composed during this same year (e.g. the 'Christmas Oratorio'), Bach reveals a special fondness for colourf…

Par WATSON SCOTT. The 14th-century carol, 'Personent hodie,' is both mysterious and powerful. On This Day Earth Shall Ring---a festive processional on the ancient melody arranged by Scott Watson---explores both aspects. Beginning quietly, the modal tune emerges over a chant drone with rustic, medieval percussion. Before long, the piece takes on the joyous character alluded to in the tune's most fa…

Written in 1943-44 as a ballet for Martha Graham, Appalachian Spring is one of Aaron Copland's most celebrated compositions and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. In this edition for concert band, Robert Longfield has skillfully adapted the most striking and beautiful sections from the orchestral suite. The work ranges in scope from delicate and soloistic to the overpowering force of the full e…

Dominick DiOrio has chosen the vivid and striking poetry of Amy Lowell for this powerful work. Lowell's poetry explores the awakening of one's passions by the arrival of a before-absent lover. DiOrio paints this internal exultation with glissandi in the voices, richly-harmonized chords and high chromatic ululations of a solo soprano. This was the first prize winner of the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble…

A modern sequel to the music of the Romantic era. The first movement hints at the chromatic of 'Tristan?- cantilena lines convey a mournful scene. It is succeeded by a brilliant scherzo with the cryptic title 'Erste fremde Szene? (First Foreign/Unknown Scene - one is invited to solve this riddle), while the third movement, with its singing quality, is related to the first. The final movement, a 'Z…

Par RASCH TORSTEN. Was bedeutet die Bewegung… a Mendelssohn song cycle for baritone and strings was premiered in 2012 by the renowned baritone Matthias Goerne. This is no workaday transcription: in addition to skilfully arranging seven Mendelssohn songs for strings and voice, Rasch has created a number of striking interludes to link the songs together. These interludes, written in Rasch's own post…