45 Festive Christmas Hits for Piano- The Great Piano Solos - Christmas Book is a bumper compendium of 49 Piano solos just in time for Christmas! This collection offers a fantastic combination of festive favourites and contemporaryclassics. All of your favourite Christmas songs are collected in one volume for solo Piano with this Great Piano Solos songbook. Whether you're more of a fan of the tr…

The Veil of the Temple is a journey from darkness into light. Care and attention has been given to the key chosen for each anthem and to the voicings so that these versions are attractive to the broadest possiblerange of amateur as well as professional singers. The breathtakingly simple Mother Of God here I stand and the quietly ecstatic Awed by the Beauty are for unaccompanied chorus. The r…

A special selection of the most poignant expressive and moving themes and melodies all arranged as sumptuous Piano solos. This anthology will bring a tear to your eye and a lump to your throat as you enjoy an absorbing andhugely rewarding selection. The Thirty-one pieces here range from Barber's celebrated Adagio For Strings through Elgar's spectacular Nimrod to popular favourites including Pie…

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A short work for unaccompanied SSSAA choir with music by John Tavener and words by W.B. Yeats. Includes piano accompaniment for rehearsal purpose only.

Work for Solo Piano commissioned for the City of London Festival in 1999.Quoting John Tavener: Ypaköe in Greek refers to the Yapöe of Easter 'Why seek ye among the dead as though He were mortal man?'. Ypaköe for solopiano is a meditation on both the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. Ypakoë is a totally spiritual concept - to attone the individual's (performer's or listener's) will to the divin…

Written for Stephen Isserlis Tavener's 1989 masterpiece The Protecting Veil for cello and strings is now available for solo with rehearsal piano reduction.

Svyati - 'O Holy One' for choir and solo cello. Text in church Slavonic. Quoting Tavener: 'I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while sketching it I learned that John Williams father of Jane my dear friend andpublisher was dying. I could not refrain from dedicating it to Jane and to the memory of her father. The text is in Church Slavonic and it is used at almost every Russian Orthodox serv…

John Tavener's Ex Maria Virgine is a sequence of Christmas carols their emphasis on the Nativity and the Virgin Mary. Scored for SATB unaccompanied or with Organ the collection isrepresentative of the broad range of Tavener's choral writing. These carols may be performed as the full sequence or as individual pieces: carols such as Ding! Dong! Merrily on High and Unto Us is Born aSon to familiar …

For unaccompanied SATB choir from Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis.This work was commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. First performed on 9th April 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall London conducted byMike Brewer.

An original and exciting collection of anthems and other choral pieces written for the Orthodox Church and inspired by the Church in Russia selected by Ralph Allwood. Partly because of the re-emergence of the Church in the former Soviet Union interest in Christian musical sources alternative to the great body of the Anglican and other Western Christian traditions has grown sharply in recent year…

A Garland For Linda is an evocative and moving anthology of works for a cappella chorus to commemorate the life of Linda McCartney. Modelled on the precedent of A Garland For The Queen (1953) nine British composers including Paul McCartney Richard Rodney Bennett John Rutter and John Tavener have been inspired to compose music of considerable expressiveness and beauty. The anthology shows the p…

A short piece for unaccompanied cello all of which is notated in treble clef and which will no doubt prove to be an excellent exercise in upper range intonation as well as a satisfying piece of music.First performed by StevenIsserlis at the Cricklade Music Festival October 1995.