String Quartet no. 2 op. 15-Alexander Zemlinsky's music was long unjustly overshadowed by what was regarded as the more progressive' Second Viennese School. Although Zemlinsky was close friends with its protagonist Arnold Schönberg he never did take the latter's radical step into dodecaphony. At the same time he composed works that were no less original or fully fledged. Composed between 1913 and 1915 his Second String Quartet in particular pushed the contemporaneous understanding of form and tonality to its limits. With just one movement but spanning over 1 200 measures this multi-faceted work numbers among the most significant contributions to the genre of the time and has long merited acritical new edition. The Urtext edition by G. Henle Publishers corrects many errors and inaccuracies in the first edition that came to light after careful comparison with the autograph sources in Vienna and Washington. For the first time too the metronome markings that survive only in one of Zemlinsky's letters have been incorporated. Editorial work was kindly supported by the Alexander Zemlinsky Endowment Fund in Vienna.

Includes: Alexander's Ragtime Band; Always; Anything You Can Do; Blue Skies; How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky); Puttin' on the Ritz; There's No Business Like Show Business

Two delightful movements from ballet repertoire make this impressive suite a superb choice for your string orchestra. Jamin Hoffman has adapted Alexander Glazunov's Dance of the Children and Cossack Dance twosprited movements that portray the cultural styles of music found in the ballet's wedding celebration scene.

String Pak (to accompany band/choir version)-Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Irving Berlin's classic Alexander's Ragtime Band with this medley of four of his all-time greatest hits arranged for choir band and strings! A fantastic closer or festival feature it includes:Alexander's Ragtime Band Play a Simple Melody Blue Skies Puttin' on the Ritz.

For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'