More Than Hymns is a new two-volume collection of anthems for mixed voice choirs featuring extended arrangements of existing hymn tunes, together with original anthem-style settings of the texts of several well known hymns. Of the sixteen works in this first volume, six are published here for the first time, including new arrangements by composers of today: Malcolm Archer, Rogers Covey-Crump, John Joubert, Barry Rose and Gavin Williams. The texts cover many seasons of the church's year - Advent, Epiphany, Passiontide, Easter, Ascension, as well as celebratory occasions such as festival services and weddings. / Chant Et Piano

The Italian oratorio 'La Resurrezione' (The Resurrection) was written during Handel’s time in Rome. It was performed on Easter Sunday 1708 with great splendour and extravagance by a large orchestra conducted by Arcangelo Corelli in the Palazzo Bonelli the Roman palazzo of Handel’s patron the Marchese Francesco Maria Ruspoli. In its dramatic structure and characterisation of the protagonists the work displays a striking affinity with Italian opera. Lucifer’s raging sixty fourth notes call to mind the demon characters in Venetian opera and Maddalena’s arias are so full of expressive power and virtuosity that Handel later incorporated one of them into his opera'Agrippina'. The unusual musical richness of this work and the virtuosic and masterly shaping of the arias make it a welcome addition to any concert programme. The edition is based on the complete edition volume of the 'Halle Handel Edition' (BA 4096) making the complete music text of the oratorio available for the first time. Scholarly-critical edition based on the Urtext of the 'Halle Handel Edition'Straight forward clear piano reductionForeword (Ger/Eng)

Collected (and set with a Piano accompaniment) by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the collection Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties.  For solo voice with Piano accompaniment.First sung to R. Vaughan Williams by James 'Duggie' Carter a King's Lynn fisherman  the song tells the story of the death of a young boy aboard a ship. According to comments from RVW himself 'The ballad was probably called forth by a particularly brutal case of ill treatment similiar to that narrated in it which occurred some twenty or thirty years ago'.Lyrics:One day a poor boy to me was bound apprentice Because of his beingfatherless;I took him out of St.James’ workhouse His mother being in deep distress.One day this poor boy unto me offended But nothing to him I did say Up to the mainmast shroud I sent him And there I kept him all that long day.All with my gasket I misused him So shamefully I can’t deny And by my barbarous cruel entreatment The very next day this poor boy died.You captains all throughout the nation Hear a voice and a warning take by me;Take special care of your apprenticeWhile you are on the raging sea.

Reprinted from authoritative German editions this collection of 45 songs offers deeply affecting settings of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Joseph von Eichendorff. Richly varied in mood many pieces evoke a romantic moonlit world and exquisite love lyrics while others explore the darker side of the human experience.Songs in original vocal ranges.Reprint of songs published by C. F. Peters Leipzig n.d.EICHENDORFF SONGS [Gedichte von Joseph von Eichendorff] Nos. 1-20 (complete)GOETHE SONGS [Gedichte von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Nos. 12-18 (November 1888-February 1889) Nos. 34-51 (January 1889)WESTERN-EASTERN DIVAN (BOOK OF VERSE)[West-Östlicher Divan)(a) 'From the 'Book of the Inn' [Aus dem 'Schenkenbuch']'(b) 'From the 'Book of Suleika' [Aus dem 'Buch Suleika']'

Une méga-collection de descants à tous les airs les plus aimés hymne, nombreux établis dans deux clés afin d'adapter les deux plus anciens et plus récents livres et tous au sein de la gamme de la chanteuse de la paroisse. / Chant Et Piano