Par GODAR VLADIMIR. Dormi Jesu from The Faber Choral Signature Series, is by Vladimir Godar, one of Slovakia's leading composers. Rob Cowan on BBC's Radio 3 has commented about Godar's music that, 'It's as if Janacek, Gorecki and Monteverdi have settled on a universal language. . . . . . '. This gentle piece is for Soprano Solo, Mixed Voices with a piano or harpsichord accompaniment, and would be …

Par MILHAUD DARIUS. Composed by Darius Milhaud, Quatrains Valaisans is a piece for SATB a cappella, based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. This piece features five different parts, each one from a poem, whose lyrics are inspired by the Valais area in Switzerland. The composition includes polytonality and polyrhythms that make it highly lyrical, cheerful and nice to sing. The five poems selected are…

Jóhann Jóhannsson was an award-winning Icelandic composer, renowned for his compositions across film, television, theatre and dance, including his stunning score to James Marsh?s Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything (2014), which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works brings together for the first time transcriptions of his best-loved wor…

Par . In this notebook you have all the space you need to give wings to your imagination, just choose where to start. Take it wherever you want and start drawing and composing all your ideas, you have 100 sheets to express yourself. The spiral offer a 360 degree opening for easy notes taking and to write on both sides Printed with a hymn to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians and church…

Par SZYMANOWSKI KARL. Unlike the works Karol Szymanowski composed during the first two decades of the 20th century, his Stabat Mater could only have been written in a country with Slavic culture. Drawing on his musical roots and mother tongue, he wrote a transparent score for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra. It is all fascinatingly simple. The melodies consist of minor and major seconds and th…

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Maurice Ravel broke new personal ground with his only piano trio, yet in a stroke of genius he created a work of the early 20th century that is outstanding in many respects and a key work of this genre. As one of his most rhythmically daring pieces, the four-movement trio fascinates with its asymmetrical rhythmic division and polymetrics, with Ravel possibly drawing on impressio…

for Band. Par ANDERSON LEROY. This work was written by Leroy Anderson in 1951 and premiered by him when he recorded it for Decca. Interestingly, in 1956 the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps of Rockford, Illinois changed their original name from the Rockford Rangers after having heard the piece played by a different corps. The music emulates the sound of distant trumpets and soldiers marching,…

The composer states:'The term 'oblique strategies? was coined jointly by British musician Brian Eno and German-born British visual artist Peter Schmidt to describe a series of printed cards they developed throughout the 1970's. The cards had their origins in sets of uncannily similar working principles that both artists had established independently, and featured aphorisms intended as a means of t…

Organ Music for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. Par . In the preface to this rich collection of hymn arrangements for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, Carolyn Hamlin makes clear that the theme of the cross sits behind all of this music. Drawing from decades of playing for worship, Hamlin has crafted musical settings of these classic hymns that are full of beauty and spiritual power. / Date parution : 202…

Par STRAVINSKY IGOR. Drawing on the composer’s transcriptions for violin (with Samuel Dushkin) and for cello (with Gregor Piatigorsky), Kim Kashkashian has produced a long-overdue viola version of this neoclassical masterpiece. The choice of movements from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite differs between those for violin and cello - Kashkashian has in turn made a slightly different selection compris…