Combining the classical Mass form with American musical styles Missa Americana joins together both old and new. This innovative combination allows the work to be performed in both church and concert settings. IncorporatingEnglish and traditional Latin texts Missa Americana is set for mixed choir and soprano and tenor soli with orchestral or organ accompaniment. Movements: Introit and Kyrie Gloria Credo Offertory (text from Psalm 138) Sanctus and Benedictus Agnus Dei (based on American hymn tune). Publications available: SATB Score Organ Score and Orchestra (score and parts for 2 Flutes Piccolo 2 Oboes English Horn 2 Bb Clarinets Bb Bass Clarinet 2Bassoons 4 F Horns 3 Bb Trumpets 2 Trombones Bass Trombone Tuba Timpani Percussion (3 players) Harp Celesta (Piano) Violin Viola Cello and Bass). Total Performance Time: Approx. 26 minutes

Erinnerung ('Remembering' or 'A Remembrance') was commissioned with the aid of funds provided by the RVW Trust for the Evelyn Barbirolli Memorial Concert at the Bridgewater Hall Manchester on 6th June 2009. The score is written with the Cor anglais line transposed.

Riduzione Per Canto E Pianoforte Di G. Luporini. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Te Deum, together with Ave Maria, Stabat Mater and Laudi alla Vergine Maria, is one of the Quattro pezzi sacri composed by Giuseppe Verdi between 1890 and 1898 and first released by Ricordi in 1898. According to the composer, Te Deum is the best piece and undoubtedly one of the most significant. For double SATB choir, with a short soprano solo, and big orchestra composed by 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones, percussions (kettledrums and bass drum) and strings. The present edition offers the choral and piano reduction by Gaetano Luporini. / Classique / Répertoire / SATB Double Choeur et Piano Réduction

Georg Frideric Händel?s Serse (Xerxes) has everything one would expect from a Baroque opera - many intertwining love stories affairs intrigues scheming misunderstanding and forgiving allpresented in the great master?s magnificent music.The opera is set in Persia in 480 BC and is very loosely based upon Xerxes I of Persia though there is little in either the Baroque libretto or music that is relevant tothat setting the main focus is on the characters (Serse Arsamene Amastre Romilda Atalanta Ariodate and Elviro some of which are based on real historical persons) and their plotting. The English version forthe opera in three acts was made for the English National Opera?s production first performed in 1985 on the 300th anniversary of Händel?s birth.In this edition of the Vocal score with the original Italian and thelater English lyrics accompaniment is provided by the instruments indicated in the orchestration (2 Recorders (or Flutes) 2 Oboes 2 Horns in F Trumpet in D Strings and Continuo [Harpsichord Cello Double Bass Bassoon]) butcan also be played by the Piano. Serse?s part originally sung by a castrato can be performed by a Soprano or a Countertenor.

For Soprano and Barintone soloists SATB and junior chorus and Orchestra.English text selected by Nicholas Fisher from the New Revised Standard Version of the Old and New Testaments. John Joubert 's An English Requiem was commissioned by the Grimmitt Trust for the 2010 Gloucester Three Choirs Festival and was given its first performance at Gloucester Cathedral on 9th August 2010 with the Festival Choirs of Gloucester Hereford and Worcester Carolyn Sampson (Soprano Neal Davies (Baritone) and Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Adrian Partington. Instrumentation: 3 Flutes (III/Piccolo)3 Oboes (III/Cor Anglais)3 Clarinets (III/Bass Clarinet)3 Bassoons (III/Contrabassoon)4 Horns in F3 Trumpets3 TrombonesTubaTimpaniPercussion (2 Players);Bass Drum Tenor Drum Side Drum Cymbals Tam-tam Crotales Triangle Tubular BellsHarpOrganStrings

Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day-Wie Schön Leuchtet Der Morgenstern (How Bright And Fair The Morning Star) BWV 1. Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day.The cantata ? Wie Schön Leuchtet Der Morgenstern? BWV 1 was written for 25 March 1725 when the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary coincided with Palm Sunday. It forms the conclusion of Bach?s cantata cycle of 1724/25.The anonymous librettist retained the outer verses 1 and 7 of Philipp Nicolai?s text (1599) which is assigned to the feast of Epiphany according to old tradition but was also sung at the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary. Verses 2 to 6 form the basis for the Tenor and Bassrecitatives and the Soprano and Tenor arias.Bach?s composition has a particularly festive brilliance with his use of 2 Horns 2 Oboes Da Caccia and the two concertante solo Violins. The Violins? lively figurations clearly reflect an image of the shining morning star.- Urtext of the New Bach Edition.- Original German text with English singing translation.- Idiomatic and easy-to-play Piano reduction.- Performance material (BA10001) vocal score (BA10001-90) & study score (TP1001) available for sale.

Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Robertson 29th November 2002.3 Flutes 1st and 2nd also Alto Flutes in G 3rd also Piccolo3 Oboes 3rd also Cor Anglais in F3 Clarinets in Bb 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb3 Bassoons 3rd also Contra Bassoon4 Horn in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 TubaTimpani4 Percussion four playersPlayer 1 - Vibraphone Glockenspiel Water Chime Bell Tree Japanese Wood Blocks Cymbal (Suspended) TamTam (Medium)Player 2 - Triangle Tubular Bells Crotales Marimba Chinese CymbalPlayer 3 - TamTam (Large) Java Gong(Large very low) Bell Lyra (Handheld) Sizzle CymbalPlayer 4 - Bass Drum Glockenspiel Xylophone1 Harp1 Piano also CelestaStrings - 16/14/12/10/8All transposing instruments are notated in their relevant transpositions.Any accidental apply only to the note that it immediately precedes except tied notes.Naturals appear occasionally 'for safety'.'LISTENING EARTH' is a symphonic drama a one- movement composition in four parts based on the work by two writers Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and W.H.Auden (1907-1973). Joseph Addison is not particularly well known; he was English a classical scholar essayist poet and politician but one of his hymns was used by Benjamin Britten. in his setting of a Thomas Tallis canon.The hymn is singularly beautiful and being a composer always inspired by extramusical stimuli such as poems nature paintings I was immediately convinced when I carne across the Addison hymn that here was exactly what I wanted to use as my major source of inspiration for this piece commissioned by and written for The Berlin Philharmonic. I don't refer to the hymn in its entirety but have chosen the following 3 excerpts all acting as mottos for the first three sections of the piece thus turning the piece into a straightforward tonepoem in the classical