SKU: HL.49003076
ISBN 9790220114588. UPC: 841886033740. 9.0x12.0x0.1 inches.
Contents: Scarborough Fair * I know where I'm goin' * The Birch Tree * Alouette * Kalinka * La Jesusita * The Barnyards o' Delgaty * Oh, dem Golden Slippers * Amo, amas, I love a lass (The Frog and the Mouse) * The Spanish Guitar * High Road to Linton * Go tell it on the mountain * The Bagpipers' Carol * Bella Bimba * The Lorelei * Santa Lucia * Non piu andrai (Mozart) * Norwegischer Tanz, Op. 35, No. 2 (Grieg) * Two lovely black eyes (Coborn) * Rule Britannia (Arne) * Star of County Down * Hamilton House * Scipio (Handel) * Langsamer Marsch * Comin' thro' the Rye * Toreador's Song from Carmen (Bizet) * Theme from the Violin Concerto (Beethoven) * Plaisir d'amour (Martini) * Wanderlied (Wohlauf noch getrunken) * Jerusalem (Parry) * Linstead Market * Heidenroslein (Schubert) * Aloha Oe (Queen Liliuokalani) * The Trout (Schubert) * Mrs McGrath * My Grandfather's Clock (Work) * Theme from Land of Hope and Glory (Mozart) * The Golden Wheat * Take a pair of sparkling eyes (Sullivan) * Funiculi, funicula * Botany Bay * Garry Owen * Trumpet Air (Clarke) * The Soldier's Joy (Reel) * Sailor's Hornpipe * The Entertainer (Joplin) * The Irish Washerwoman * Turkey in the Straw.
SKU: PR.110418140
ISBN 9781491129432. UPC: 680160640379.
Matheson’s five-movement work is a setting of stained glass windows created by Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse for a rustic country church adjoining the Rockefeller estate near Sleepy Hollow on the Hudson River. Matheson’s suite draws from four Chagall windows: 1. Jeremiah, 2. Isaiah, 3. Crucifixion, 4. The Good Samaritan, and culminates with Matisse’s 5. The Rose.In 1954, the Rockefeller family asked Henri Matisse to create a stained glass Rose Window for the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, New York as a memorial to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, the great art patroness and a founder of the Museum of Modern Art. It was to be the artist’s last work. A few years later, Mrs. Rockefeller’s youngest son, David, acting on behalf of the family, commissioned Marc Chagall to create an entire series of stained glass windows to fill the rest of the small church resulting in the large, majestic “Good Samaritan†window and eight sublime smaller windows, each depicting a biblical figure or scene. In 2015, Premiere Commission commissioned James Matheson to compose WINDOWS to celebrate the centennial of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills and the 100th birthday of David Rockefeller. This deeply touching, epic cycle distills into music the intimate, often heart-rending, visions of Chagall as well as the powerful simplicity of Matisse’s modern design which utilizes the striking collage forms he employed in his final years. Matheson’s work also reflects the influence of Olivier Messiaen’s own theologically-inspired music. Like the French master, Matheson utilizes large-scale blocks of harmonies with organ-like sonorities to support and shift the music’s kaleidoscopic planes of color and set into relief the work’s piercing motifs and intricate patterns. The universal themes of love and sacrifice (“Jeremiah†and “Isaiahâ€), loss and altruism (“Crucifixion†and “The Good Samaritanâ€) and the jubilant celebration of life and nature (“The Roseâ€) are memorably portrayed in this poignant tribute to the human spirit.—Bruce Levingston.
SKU: HL.14021034
UPC: 884088814656. 10.5x14.5x0.096 inches.
Commissioned by the Primrose Piano Quartet with funding from the Scottish Arts Council, Mr and Mrs J. A.Pye's Charitable Settlement, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Hope-Scott Trust. First performance by the Primrose Piano Quartet on 13th July 2008, at the Pump Room, Cheltenham, as partof the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.