Hob XVI:20. Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Separate edition for practical use: Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI:20 ranks among the piano works by Haydn which have a permanent place in the concert repertoire. Featuring only intermediate technical demands, it forms at the same time part of the educational canon. The sonata demands expressive playing as well as a rhetorical understanding of the musical text. A fas…

Trauerkantate. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann's Funeral Cantata “Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin” appears here for the first time in print. A score of the work, until Second World War, was held in the Berliner Sing-Akademie. It was written by J. Dirmar, the former cantor at St Nikolai in Berlin and consisted of a four-page printed text. Full score, parts (BA3583) and choral score (BA3583-91) avail…

Passionskantate. Par HOMILIUS GOTTFRIED AUGUST. He was without argument our greatest church composer, wrote the lexicographer E. L. Gerber a few years after Homilius's death in 1785. As a result of the destruction of the Kreuzkirche during the Seven Years War, the longtime Kreuzkantor, a pupil of Bach, performed his professional musical duties primarily at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. The Passions…

Par ZUBEL AGATA. The musical axis of the opera Bildbeschreibung consists of the relations between the soloistically treated instruments, the parts of which are based on the realisation by the performers of layers of sound ? understood not just as the exploration of their own instrument, but above all the presentation or representation in sound of the text. Each of the parts forges an area of ?pict…

Par REYNOLDS ROGER. Commissioned by the Judith S. Stark Foundation Text: Jorge Luis Borges / Contemporain / Répertoire / Ténor

for Low Flute Quartet or Choir. Par LOTTI ANTONIO. Antonio Lotti originally composed this Miserere Mei around 1730, scored for four voices. Frequently only performed as the opening 27 measures, the entire work has been arranged here for low flute quartet or choir by Cathi Marro. The text of the setting, from Psalm 50, is typically the final psalm sung at Tenebrae, an ancient Good Friday service. /…

Par OKPEBHOLO SHAWN E.. Shawn Okpebholo?s Heritage, in the Edition Peters Concert Band Series, evokes moods, events and sounds (including West African drumming and indigenous melodies) from an ethnomusicological research visit the composer undertook to Nigeria. One of the primary musical themes of the work is an adaptation of a song that comes from the Esan people, a small ethnic group in the sout…

Par HERTL FRANTISEK. The renowned Czech double bass player, composer, conductor and teacher František Hertl (1906–1973) wrote many concert and teaching pieces for his instrument. An outstanding virtuoso, he had a consummate mastery of his instrument’s expressive potential and sound qualities. These four pieces for double bass comprising a Prelude, Burlesque, Nocturne and Tarantella were composed …

Par BINGHAM JUDITH. A ten-minute suite consisting of four short pieces aimed at providing aspiring organists with new and progressive repertoire. These pieces celebrate different aspects of a child’s Christmas as seen from an adult perspective and takes influence from the text ‘A Box of Delights’ by John Masefield, with its magical and pagan overtones. In the music there are quotations from other …

Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. The Ricordi complete Vocal Score for Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem. Latin Text with English translation by Geoffrey Dunn./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano