SKU: HL.35032437
UPC: 888680862305. 6.75x10.5x0.026 inches. Julie I. Myers/Joel Raney. Isaiah 40:26, Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:20.
Here is an anthem with fresh perspective and innovative musical elements. Unfolding slowly, this impressionistic tone poem marries text and music with great care and elegance. The lyric comparison of creation to a sanctuary is unique but, when joined with the composer's palette of compositional colors, the result is an anthem of great scope and beauty. Praiseworthy!
SKU: HL.14006096
8.5x11.75x0.42 inches.
Includes notes on the Cathedral Organ.
SKU: HL.35027937
UPC: 884088570606. 5x5 inches. J. Paul Williams/Joseph M. Martin.
Uses: Christmas Eve, Christmas, CommunionScrip ture: Luke 2:1-7In this tender lullaby to the newborn Christ, J. Paul Williams at his poetic best joins with Joseph Martin in a simply scored anthem that is profoundly effective for candlelight Christmas observances. The quoting of the beloved German carol Still, Still, Still, adds to the charm of this simple, beautiful, and moving anthem.
SKU: PE.EP71163
ISBN 9790577003382. English.
Words by Vesta Pierce Crawford
First performed on July 19, 2002, by the girls of Winchester and Salisbury Cathedrals, conducted by David Hill, at Winchester Cathedral
SKU: HL.14025131
ISBN 9780853605966. UPC: 884088434076. 6.75x9.75x0.215 inches.
Haydn's setting of the Passion of Christ in full vocal score. The work was originally written in 1786 as a program of instrumental music to accompany the Seven Words Of Jesus On The Cross, for a service at Cadiz. Haydn then embellished the work into a full Oratorio for Lent services at the Cathedral of Cadiz. This final version is presented here for SATB chorus and a Piano reduction of the orchestral material.
SKU: HL.267548
This work is based on the biblical story of the martyrdom of Saint Stephen, traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr, asrecounted in the Acts of the Apostles. Stephen was a member of the early Church in Jerusalem. He was an inspired and charismatic preacher, but he aroused great hostility among the members of the various synagogues by his teachings, and he was accused of blasphemy. At his trial he looked up to heaven and declared that he saw God in his Glory, with Jesus standing at his right hand. This so enraged the authorities that he was flung from the city and stoned to death. As he died, he prayed that the Lord Jesus would receive his spirit, and that his killers would beforgiven. In this setting the choir recounts the story in Latin, whilst the solo horn music depicts the violence of the stoning. The work endswith a quotation from Chopin's Ballade No. 2 in F, Op. 38. Commissioned by the Metropolitan and Cathedral Chapter of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. First performed on 16th March 2015 at St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, by the Cathedral Choir conducted by Markus Landerer.
SKU: HL.14020264
8.25x11.75 inches.
'Still Falls the Rain' is perhaps Edith Sitwell's greatest poem. Maconchy set the poem for double choir, unaccompanied, with some antiphonal writing. The recurrence of the phrase 'still falls the rain' throughout the poem is echoed in the music and helps to give shape and coherence to it. After the impassioned and tragic character of the main part of the poem, it ends on a calmer, even hopeful note (the Dawn after the Night raids perhaps). It was commissioned by the Chelmsford Festival and first performed there on 22 May 1985 by the BBC singers, conducted by John Poole, in Chelmsford Cathedral.
SKU: GI.G-003027
UPC: 641151030180. English.
Magnificen t organ arrangements of favorite Christmas carols. Recorded at St. Matthew‚ Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
SKU: WN.OR004B
ISBN ISMN 9790570743766.
1.7. 16 was commissioned by The Hamilton Flute Band to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, and was premiered in St Columb’s Cathedral, Londonderry on 1st July 2016. This new version for flute choir was written for The Woodbridge Flute Choir, Virginia, USA, in 2024. The piece takes some of its ideas from musical elements already connected to the story, from the signalling bugle calls that might have been used in battle, to hints of one of the March tunes that the band still use today. 794,628 lives were lost in the Battle of the Somme, a chilling statistic. These numbers are also woven into the music, colouring the choices of intervals, harmonies and chords, and building the central themes, including the slow march to the trenches, where the uncomfortable juxtaposition of 7ths and 9ths is used as a motif over the solo flute theme before the screeching whistle signal to go over the top. One of the musical elements central to the piece is the bugle call for Assemble which is used as an enthusiastic call in the opening, then to give unity to the chilling fear of the trenches on the eve of the battle, and finally to lead into the Commemoration of the final section, as those in the Cathedral 100 years later became part of the story as they assembled to commemorate the huge sacrifice made.
SKU: BA.BA11086
ISBN 9790006564446. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
A suite whose movements always deliver something other than what they seem to promise. But throughout, the two instruments and respectively their players act like two people in very specific situations:I.: The opening movement is reserved for the piano; the initially earnest, solitary cantilena intensifies creating expectation. SuddenlyII.: the violin sounds. Its moving figures replace the now silent piano, also soloistically.III. „Passacaglia“ : The title is taken literally – the two instruments/persons encounter each other in the street. Two musical characters who meet at a specific point, recognize each other, but move on again, each one by itself. IV. „Rondo“: The two of them dance together. Before me, I saw people dancing the Sardana – a round dance – in front of the cathedral of Barcelona. Four themes in different time signatures circle ceaselessly between the two instruments. V. „Fuga“: At last, regardless, panic flight – again the title is taken literally ... Human, only too human …