SKU: BT.MUSM570364459
English.
Robert Saxton 's Hortus Musicae , Book 1 was commissioned by Ian Richie for the 2013 City of London Festival with funds provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation. The first performance was given by Clare Hammond on June 24th 2013 at the church of St Mary Le Bow. The title, less 'literal' in Latin than in the vernacular, refers to the idea of an allegorical/metaphysical garden (reference to a 'real', or existing, garden might be implied by Hortus Musicus) with various facets. The titles of the individual pieces/movements, with their respective garden image, are as follows: 1) Hortus Somniorum: a fleeting vision of a 'magical' garden 2) Hortus Temporis: a reflection of/on the floralclock described by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in his [metaphysical] poem The Garden: How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers! 3) Hortus Cantus: A garden in which nature 'sings' (praises), in the manner of a 'chorale prelude' and ending with the cantus firmus transformed into bells. 4) Hortus Infinitatis: A meditative/formal garden representing Time suspended, in the form of a palindromic prolation canon combined with a harmonic ground (chaconne). 5) Saltatio Hortensis: A (summer) garden of dancing, celebratory nature. Its essence (and that of the entire cycle, both metaphorically and structurally/formally) is summed up in words spoken by Miranda in WH Auden's 1944 Tempest [Shakespeare]-inspired poem The Sea And The Mirror; So, to remember our changing garden, we Are linked as children in a circle dancing. Duration: 15 minutes.
SKU: BT.MV00003233
SKU: FP.FWS10
ISBN 979-0-57050-321-6.
The collected songs for voice and piano of aclaimed choral conductor and arranger Stephen Wilkinson. This album includes settings of Marvell's poem The Garden, a joyful expression of horticultural delights that cleverly combines an almost atonal idiom with elements of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. The title work The Sunlight on the Garden is a setting of the MacNeice poem of the same name, and evokes darker moods of wartime by the use of a constantly evolving harmonic palette. In the field of choral music, Stephen Wilkinson is a genius. (Yorkshire Post) Simply a great choral conductor (South China Times) No praise could overstate the merits of Stephen Wilkinson's direction (The Guardian).
SKU: HL.354338
ISBN 9781705107669. UPC: 840126936964. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches.
Richard Wilson was born in Cleveland on May 15, 1941. He studied piano with Roslyn Pettibone, Egbert Fischer, and Leonard Shure, andcello with Robert Ripley and Ernst Silberstein. After beginning composition studies with Roslyn Pettibone and Howard Whittaker, he went on in 1959 to Harvard, studying with Randall Thompson, G.W. Woodworth, and principally with Robert Moevs, and graduating in 1963 magna cum laude. Awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Award for study abroad, he continued studying piano with Friedrich Wührer in Munich, and composition, again with Moevs, in Rome, where he also gave piano recitals. Wilson joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1966. He was appointed to the Mary Conover Mellon Professorship of Music there in 1988, and he has served three times as chairman of the Department of Music. Wilson has been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, the American Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, and the Library of Congress. His works have been heard in such American musical centers as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Cleveland, and Los Angeles and at the Aspen Music Festival, but also in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Graz, Leningrad, Stockholm, Tokyo, Bogota, and a number of Australian cities. The recipient in 1992 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1994, the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, and has served as composer in residence with the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. Wilson has been praised by 21st Century Music as a “splendidly talented and highly accomplished composer whose music rewards seeking out†and by the New York Sun as “possessed of a hard-won idiom that has grown and developed over the years into a probing blend of wit, classic form, modern harmony, and impressionistic color.†Writing in the New Yorker, Andrew Porter called his String Quartet No. 3 a “richly wrought and unusual composition,†while the New York Times called it “a work of substance and expressivity ... [that] merits a place in the active repertory.â€.
SKU: BT.DHP-1104878-030
9x12 inches.
Andrew Watkin takes us on a three-movement musical journey in U.S. City Trip. Each movement explores a world famous street in three different American cities. Swing, blues and rock styles accompany us as we visit the theatres on Broadway in New York, the clubs on Rampart Street in New Orleansâ?? French Quarter and the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. U.S. City Trip ist eine musikalische Reise in drei Sätzen fu?r eine fu?nfstimmig variable Besetzung mit Schlagzeug, die den Zuhörer drei weltberu?hmte StraÃ?en in amerikanischen GroÃ?städten entdecken lässt: In den Stilen Swing, Blues und Rock geht es nacheinander nach New York zum Broadway, ins French Quarter in New Orleans zur Rampart Street und schlieÃ?lich nach Las Vegas, den schillernden Las Vegas Strip entlang. U.S. City Trip est un voyage au c?ur de trois rues historiques de trois grandes villes américaines. Première étape : New York et sa légendaire rue Broadway. Nous partons ensuite découvrir le Vieux Carré de la Nouvelle Orléans travers Rampart Street. Notre périple se termine Las Vegas et son extravagante artère principale, le « Vegas Strip ». La musique est un savoureux mélange aux tonalités swing, blues et rock.
SKU: BT.DHP-1104878-216
Andrew Watkin takes us on a three-movement musical journey in U.S. City Trip. Each movement explores a world famous street in three different American cities. Swing, blues and rock styles accompany us as we visit the theatres on Broadway in New York, the clubs on Rampart Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter and the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. U.S. City Trip ist eine musikalische Reise in drei Sätzen für eine fünfstimmig variable Besetzung mit Schlagzeug, die den Zuhörer drei weltberühmte Straßen in amerikanischen Großstädten entdecken lässt: In den Stilen Swing, Blues und Rock geht es nacheinander nach New York zum Broadway, ins French Quarter in New Orleans zur Rampart Street und schließlich nach Las Vegas, den schillernden Las Vegas Strip entlang. U.S. City Trip est un voyage au cœur de trois rues historiques de trois grandes villes américaines. Première étape : New York et sa légendaire rue Broadway. Nous partons ensuite découvrir le Vieux Carré de la Nouvelle Orléans travers Rampart Street. Notre périple se termine Las Vegas et son extravagante artère principale, le « Vegas Strip ». La musique est un savoureux mélange aux tonalités swing, blues et rock.
