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City Solstice was commissioned by The City of London Corporation for The City of London Festival 2009 and is dedicated with thanks to Ian Ritchie.Instrumentations - Choir Organ (available separatly) Soprano SaxophoneDuration - 18 minutesFirst performance - 22nd June 2009 at Southwark Cathedral.Performed by The Choir of King's College Cambridgeconducted by StephenCleobury with John Harle (So…

The River Kwai March was composed by Malcolm Arnold for the 1957 film The Bridge On The River Kwai. It is a counterpoint melody to the well-known theme tune of the film the Colonel Bogey March which was written earlier by the British Army Bandmaster Kenneth J Aldford. It has been arranged here for solo Piano.Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) was an English composer who is best remembered for his …

Instrumentalists will love this collection of Broadway classics, including: Any Dream Will Do - Cabaret - Defying Gravity - Do You Hear the People Sing? - Edelweiss - Getting to Know You - Guys and Dolls - Hello, Dolly! - I Dreamed a Dream - If I Were a Bell - Luck Be a Lady - Mame - The Music of the Night - Ol' Man River - People Will Say We're in Love - Seasons of Love - Send in the Clowns - The…

This popular torch song was originally composed for Ella Fitzgerald, but ended up being dropped from the film Pete Kelly's Blues. She would eventually record it six years later, but in the meantime, a recording by Julie London introduced it to the world. Jay's sweet harmonies make for a bluesy arrangement. / Choeur SSA

This popular torch song was originally composed for Ella Fitzgerald, but ended up being dropped from the film Pete Kelly's Blues. She would eventually record it six years later, but in the meantime, a recording by Julie London introduced it to the world. Jay's sweet harmonies make for a bluesy arrangement. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Quand Tom Adès et le Los Angeles Philharmonic m'a demandé quelque chose, je l'ai dit The Importance of Being Earnest. J'ai toujours aimé les sens extatique Wilde de non-sens - comme Alice au pays des merveilles en quelque sorte. Wilde a un humour noir indifférent, un délice dans le mensonge - et c'est ma maison. Je ne sais pas si c'est une chose irlandais ou pas - tout ce que je sais, c'est que c'…

Historical information about Händel's Water Music Suites is limited, but certainly these works were intended for two, possibly three, parties given by King George I on the Thames River, London, between 1715 and 1736. Händel and his orchestra played on a barge. Since then the some twenty-two separate original pieces have been organized into three Suites and nicknamed 'Water Music?, each having a se…

Version for String Quartet.Score available: KP00510The composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo viola my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided then to let m…

Mixed Bag No. 20-The highly acclaimed Mixed Bag series provides a great opportunity for woodwind players of mixed ability to play together and make a perfect recital item for young musicians who are getting used to playing withothers. Each arrangement will work with just three main parts. Part 1 is quite demanding but Parts 2 and 3 are easier. These parts can be played by just one or several play…

for soprano and piano. Par CASKEN JOHN. Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three. All three were also set by Debussy: L’…