Hymns for Palm Sunday

The Four Hymns are in similar vein to the Five Mystical Songs (1911) although on a smaller and more intimate scale. Together with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis these form a succession of works displaying a strong mystical, meditative content.The first of the hymns, 'Lord! come away!', employs vigorous Purcellian recitative in a setting of a Palm Sunday text from Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Golden Grove (17th century). 'Who is this fair one?' (Isaac Watts, 1674-1748) is a dialogue for the tenor and viola about divine love. As described by Christopher Palmer, 'Come Love, come Lord' (Richard Crashaw, c1613-49) 'breathes that spirit of mystical remoteness later to inform A Pastoral Symphony?. The final 'Evening Hymn' is a radiant setting of a translation from pre-4th century Greek by Robert Bridges, notable for its contrapuntal expertise over a bell-like basso ostinato.Four Hymns is also available in the version for tenor, viola and piano (979-0-060-02852-6), and the score (978-0-85162-908-7) serves as the vocal score for use with the orchestral version. However, the solo viola part of the orchestral version is incompatible with that for the piano version.Suitable for advanced standard performers. / Partie De Violon Alto Solo

This unique book provides 24 suggested hymns for the Advent/Christmas season and 24 suggested hymns for the Lent/Easter season. For Advent and Christmas, the hymns are organized into six individual services for the first, second, third, and fourth Sundays of Advent, Christmas Eve, and Christmas. For Lent and Easter, the hymns are organized into three suggested Sundays of Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and the Easter service. For each hymn, guitar chords, lyrics, and the melody are provided to enable simple strum-style congregational accompaniments. Intermediate and advanced guitarists can play the full intermediate-level fingerstyle arrangement for each hymn. In addition, MP3 recordings of the hymns are embedded on the included disc, as well as PDF lyric sheets that can be printed and distributed to the congregation. Finally, the TNT 2 software allows you to create custom mixes of the recordings for practice, change the tempo, and even change keys! / Guitare

POD Vocal Score-St. Mark Passion is a work by John Joubert for two Tenor and three Baritone soloists SATB Chorus Solo Cello and Organ. First performed in Wells Cathedral on Palm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Wells Cathedral Choir it was commissioned by 'Cathedral Commissions' of Wells Cathedral. A full performance lasts around 45 minutes and this is the Vocal Score. 'The work lasts about 45 minutes and rather like the St. Mark Passion by Charles Wood uses various pre-existant hymns to fulfill a similar function to the chorales in Bach's Passions. The scoring of solo Cello and Organ is skillfully handled so that the quasi-recitativenarrations feature both instruments to varying degrees the Cello often taking lead balancing the inevitably greater presence of the Organ in the hymns. Joubert's choice of hymns is impeccable (plainsong Bach Gibbons...) ending with 'When I survey the wondrous cross' and the idiom of the freely composed sections is given consistency through use of a gently undulating motif to accompany Christ's words (reminiscent of the opening of Vaughan William's Symphony no.5) and a chromatic motif in agitated sections (which happens to be the same as Shostakovich's DSCH theme). Although considerable demands are made on the instrumentalists and lead soloists the choral writing is rarely difficult and could be tackled by many choirs; I have no doubt that the work would be extremely effective in performance.' - Geoffrey Webber Choir & Organ Magazine

Celebrate the joy of the Resurrection with “Come to the Cross” a 25-minute cantata for Easter. Beautiful new songs and traditional Easter hymns are woven together with dramatic narrative following the events of HolyWeek. Cindy Berry has created a flexible work which is easy to prepare while remaining highly creative. Present the work as a complete cantata or use portions for Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday Good Friday and Easter. Accompanywith organ and/or piano Chamber Orchestra or the excellent ChoirTrax Performance Cassette. Involve your entire church and community in celebrating the hope of Easter with “Come to the Cross”. Available: SATB Instrumental Pak ChoirTrax Cassette Preview Cassette Preview Pak.

Celebrate the joy of the Resurrection with “Come to the Cross” a 25-minute cantata for Easter. Beautiful new songs and traditional Easter hymns are woven together with dramatic narrative following the events of HolyWeek. Cindy Berry has created a flexible work which is easy to prepare while remaining highly creative. Present the work as a complete cantata or use portions for Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday Good Friday and Easter. Accompanywith organ and/or piano Chamber Orchestra or the excellent ChoirTrax Performance Cassette. Involve your entire church and community in celebrating the hope of Easter with “Come to the Cross”. Available: SATB Instrumental Pak ChoirTrax Cassette Preview Cassette Preview Pak.

Paperback-Gabriel Jackson's The Passion Of Our Lord Jesus Christ for SATB Choir (with divisions) with Soprano and Tenor solos and 10 players. Commissioned by Merton College Oxford this hour-long work for soloists choir and 10 players is divided into seven movements beginning with Palm Sunday. Jackson's setting takes material from each of the four Gospel narratives interspersed with Latin hymns and English texts by poets associated with Merton College over the centuries including Edmund Blunden and T. S. Eliot. This vocal score includes a Piano reduction for rehearsal purposes. Instrumentation: picc/alto fl b. cl sopr sax(B flat) / alto sax (E flat) hn perc (1 player) (bd vib tub wind chimes (metal) tam-tam brake dr water gong sus cym vibraslap 3 temple bl (high mediuam low) mark tree) hp vln vla vc db.