Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. Puccini wrote the short Requiem – actually the setting of the antiphon to the Introit of the Mass for the Dead – as a commission for the publisher Giulio Ricordi for the fourth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, which occurred on _x000D_27 January 1905. Today the work is often performed, since this setting for three voices can be easily performed by amateur choirs and…

Par . The new Finer in Minor With beautiful, easy to moderately difficult, familiar and above all not so familiar pieces, our bestseller Finer in Minor has now been a companion for many generations on their way to the wonderful works of major piano literature. In the meantime, the sister edition Greater in Major (EB 8936) expands the sound palette, showing that playing the piano in a major key is,…

Symphonie-Kantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord’; one und…

Missa Puerorum (Kleiner Und Leichter Messgesang). Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Of Josef Rheinberger's eighteen masses, five are for unaccompanied voices, four with accompaniment by a small instrumental ensemble and nine with organ. Among the last group the 'leicht ausführbare' [easy to perform] works take a special place: Considered by their composer as purely 'utility music', they achieved grea…

Confitebor. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. This composition offers an extensive palette of the baroque master's musical ideas and modes of expression. The piece owes ist attractiveness principally to ist characteristically Vivaldian transparency and formal perfection, and to the way in which the voices are allowed to blossom within clearly fashioned structures, while all the tonal possibilities of the small…

Par WALTERS EDMUND. Three playful Christmas songs originally written for the Duncombe Road School Choir of Liverpool in 1977. The three carols are suitable for children's voices and a delightfully unusual selection that will add sparkle to your Yuletide concerts./ Recueil / Choeur d'Enfants et Piano

Vesperpsalm. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl’Incurabili in Venice. Since the Ospedale was an institution for the musical training of gifted girls and young women, the vocal parts are scored for female voices. As Director of Music at the Saxon-Polish Court of Dresden, Hasse was also responsible for church music, and therefore he arr…

Par CARTER SYDNEY. Arranged by Allen Percival for 2-part voices, SA or SS, with Piano accompaniment./ Feuillet / S ou A et Piano