SKU: LO.AMHB32
SKU: HL.14002657
SKU: HL.14000856
6.75x10.0x0.046 inches.
SKU: HL.14037130
UPC: 884088488833. 9.25x12.5x0.084 inches.
SKU: CA.916400
ISBN 9790007253066. German. Text: Richard Dehmel.
For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald has made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers, which have been performed throughout the world with huge success. Richard Strauss left a wealth of wonderfully sensitive and subtle songs from all decades of his compositional output, many of them written specifically for his wife, the singer Pauline Strauss-de Ahna.
SKU: CA.925600
ISBN M-007-24918-2. Key: D major. German. Text: Morike, Eduard.
Hugo Wolf set a total of 53 songs by Eduard Morike, all in the year 1888. The composer wrote in a letter: Once you have heard this song, it can only inspire one wish - to die. In the artistic-metaphysical milieu of the late 19th century this was regarded as the highest ideal, especially for Hugo Wolf, who believed in the body as a wretched piano case from which the soul can only break free like harmonies dying away. And yet Fussreise (Journey on Foot) begins as a simple, happy, elated song of travel, revolving around the key of D major over an ostinato piano rhythm. Old Adam believes he senses the bliss of paradise in this, but he continues to be caught in the tension between earthly suffering and eternal longing, as the rest of Hugo Wolf's setting clearly shows: it remains a pious hope that a whole life would be such a morning journey bathed in gentle perspiration. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).
SKU: GI.G-1062
UPC: 785147006220.
All Is Holy is a compilation recording packed with all the best songs from liturgical composer and author Jeanne Cotter's impressive catalog. This recording also includes “Thirsting for Justice,†the exciting new theme song written for the 2019 Los Angeles Religious Educator’s Congress. With beloved songs like “Psalm 103: The Lord Is Kind and Merciful,† “Lord, Send out Your Spirit,†and “Psalm 33: Blessed Are We†along with several of her most beloved piano solos, All Is Holy will bring you moments of exquisite joy, quiet contemplation, and blissful peace.
SKU: GI.G-CD-635
In Bring Us Home, Paul Tate nimbly weaves songs of hope, joy, and promise with songs of soulful supplication. Tate’s wistful Magnificat blissfully ascends heavenward while the quiet yet powerful pleading of If You Love Me implores, Love one another as I have loved you. The jewel of this recording is most assuredly Anima Christi. At its beginning, this haunting a cappella piece mirrors the stark open harmonies of ancient monastic hymnody but soon reveals the salvific power of God’s love and mercy. This expertly composed liturgical music is suitable for reflective listening or prayerful participation. From beginning to end, Bring Us Home flawlessly illustrates our transcendence from the shadow of darkness into holy, redeeming light.
SKU: HL.14020975
UPC: 884088860066. 8.75x8.25 inches.
Chamber opera in a prologue and one act. A ghost story telling of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Hebrides. This is a mystery story in the form of a chamber opera. The prologue is set as a court of enquiry into the unexplained disappearance of the three keepers from a lighthouse. Questions are posed by a solo horn, which may sound from among the audience, and three officers give answer. Gradually, they move from straight testimony into fantastical imaginings of evil during a 'flashback' to the lighthouse; but then we snap back to the courtroom. In the main act the three singers become the vanished keepers. They have been together for months, long enough to be fully aware of each other's weaknesses; petty bickerings suggest a relationship which is stable, but liable to become highly unstable at any moment. They sing songs to reduce the tension, Blazes beginning with a rough ballad of street violence, accompanied by violin and banjo. Sandy's song, with cello and out-of-tune upright piano, is a thinly disguised description of sexual bliss, and Arthur's with brass and clarinet, is a tub-thumping hymn. But the songs serve only to resurrect in their minds ghosts from the past, and as the fog descends each of the keepers becomes convinced that he is being claimed by the Beast. They prepare to meet its dazzling eyes, which become the lights of the relief vessel, and the three men reappear as officers, met at the lighthouse only by an infestation of rats. They leave, and at the end the last hours of Blazes, Sandy and Arthur begin to play over again. Libretto only. Duration c. 1h 25mins.
SKU: HL.14008404
UPC: 884088435356. 8.75x11.75x0.406 inches.
Chamber opera in a prologue and one act. A ghost story telling of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Hebrides. This is a mystery story in the form of a chamber opera. The prologue is set as a court of enquiry into the unexplained disappearance of the three keepers from a lighthouse. Questions are posed by a solo horn, which may sound from among the audience, and three officers give answer. Gradually, they move from straight testimony into fantastical imaginings of evil during a 'flashback' to the lighthouse; but then we snap back to the courtroom. In the main act the three singers become the vanished keepers. They have been together for months, long enough to be fully aware of each other's weaknesses; petty bickerings suggest a relationship which is stable, but liable to become highly unstable at any moment. They sing songs to reduce the tension, Blazes beginning with a rough ballad of street violence, accompanied by violin and banjo. Sandy's song, with cello and out-of-tune upright piano, is a thinly disguised description of sexual bliss, and Arthur's with brass and clarinet, is a tub-thumping hymn. But the songs serve only to resurrect in their minds ghosts from the past, and as the fog descends each of the keepers becomes convinced that he is being claimed by the Beast. They prepare to meet its dazzling eyes, which become the lights of the relief vessel, and the three men reappear as officers, met at the lighthouse only by an infestation of rats. They leave, and at the end the last hours of Blazes, Sandy and Arthur begin to play over again. Study Score. Duration c. 1h 25mins.
