SKU: HL.49003149

ISBN 9790220115738. UPC: 841886023079. 8.25x11.75x0.233 inches.

3(3pic, 3 afl).3 (3ca).3 (3bcl, Ebcl).2ssax (2asax).3 (cbn)-6.3.3.euph.1-4perc(timp., large b.dr., pedal b.d., 2 timb. [medium & high], bodhran, Hi-hat, splash cym., 2t.bl., 2wh., 3ratch., nipple gng., very large gng., log dr., xyl., vib., glock., susp.crots., hand bells, police whistle)-cel.hp.pno (epno; Yamaha, Fender Rhodes or DX7)-str (12.12.10.10.8).

SKU: HL.49002518

ISBN 9790220120466. UPC: 073999913347. 9.0x12.0x1.015 inches. English.

Like few other theatre worksThe Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's DreamTippett's first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is indeed an opera, the place, or dreamspace, is conjured by music: by luminescent music that, in its flowing abundance, radiant harmonies and evocative wind colourings, represents the natural world within which the characters have to integrate themselves. The central couple, those whose marriage is at first subverted and then gloriously celebrated, are Mark and Jenifer: he a young man of the earth and the senses, she a young woman of lofty spirituality. Each is only half a person, and before they can be united they have to be made whole, have to find within themselves an understanding of the other. Overseeing their mythic initiation and psychic healing are two Ancients, votaries of a temple on a wooded hilltop.As in the Mozart precedent, which the composer certainly had in mind, there is also a more workaday couple, Jack and Bella. The other principals are Jenifer's businessman father King Fisher, who wants to stop the wedding for reasons of his own, and an Erda-like seer. There is also a dancer, Strephon, leading the exuberant ballet in which the orchestra completes the story of enlightenment and passion. It is ultimately a victory of love and, before love, self-knowledge.(Paul Griffiths).

SKU: HL.49003178

ISBN 9790220117237. UPC: 073999468175. 8.25x11.75x0.149 inches.

Commissioned by the BBC to inaugurate Birmingham's Symphony Hall on 12 June 1991, the sense of optimism surrounding that event is exactly mirrored in Momentum's long melodic lines and vibrant rhythms, drawing themselves out at the last minute into a litany of orchestral gestures massively confirming the mood of communal pride and aspiration. Nothing could better reflect the sense of civic distinction than the ensemble giving that first concert, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with whom Turnage was then Composer-in-Association.

SKU: HL.49003201

ISBN 9790220116247. UPC: 841886023086. 8.25x11.75x0.269 inches.

3(2afl, pic).3 (ca).3 (2bcl).2ssax (2barsax).2.cbn-4.4.3 (euph).1-5perc (timp.,sn.dr. (with brushes), large b.d., large pedal b.d., large sus.cym., large w.bl., tamb., large ratch., large gng, large c.b., mar., vib., hand bells, tub.bell, boobams, cong., large metal bar)-pno (cel).hp-str (16.16.12.12.8).

SKU: HL.49014917

ISBN 9790220118524.

3(3:pic) * 2 * ca. * bob.2 * bcl. * ssax * 2 * cbsn. - 4 * flhn. * 2 * 2 * btbn * 1 - timp. * perc.(4dr., large b.d., large sus.cym., cast., 2tam-tams, log drum, kit, marimba., vibra., glock., crots., tub.bells, 3gngs., maraca., cabaca)(2 players) - pf. (cel) * hp - str.