Chorale Score

Nico Muhly's Time After Time scored for Soprano Saxophone Marimba and Percussion. The work was composed in 2003 and lasts around 8 minutes.  Time After Time was composed for the Yesaroun’ Duo (comprising multi-percussionist Sam Solomon & saxophonist Eric Hewitt) and marimbist Nancy Zeltsman. Muhly states that he set out to write a piece that was primarily energetic and rhythmically challenging enough for two percussionists and one honorary percussionist to play. The title refers to the fact that all the material recycles itself at different speeds.  The Marimba’s long quasi-chorale lines proceed initially without noticing the rhythmic shifts and upheaval below. Halfway through the piece a jagged Marimba solo features the instrument’s precise dance-like qualities and after being joined by the Saxophone and Percussion propels the whole ensemble towards the rhythmic and harmonic excesses of the final section.

Song Of Songs was first written in 2009 and arranged for chamber ensemble in 2010. The lyrics were by Andrew Hawes and the chamber version was scored for solo Soprano SATB chorus String Quintet and Harp. It is written in six movements each inspired by a section of text from the Old Testament Book of the same name.Patrick Hawes (b. 1958) is a contemporary British composer. He has been building a reputation as one of the foremost composers working in the UK today a position which was cemented when he was appointed as Classic FM’s Composer in Residence for 2006-2007.

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Paramètre de Britten du poème de Edith Sitwell ' Louange nous grands hommes ', a été laissé inachevé à sa mort. Elle a été étant écrite pour Mstislav Rostrpovich d'inclure dans sa première saison avec le National Symphony Orchestra de Washington D.C, en 1977. Le mauscript brise d'après 118 barres, près de la fin de la cinquième une sections dix prévu. Le fragment équivaut donc au plus de la moitié du travail, mais il est entièrement composée. Deux autres bars ont été trouvés esquissé dans l'un des ordinateurs portables de Britten et ont été ajoutées à ce score en 1985, quand elle a été révisée par le compositeur, Colin Matthews, avant de son premier spectacle./ Répertoire / Chorale

Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. This is probably the best of Haydn's early short masses, and certainly the most well-known. The Robbins Landon edition, based on the original performance materials, is now the standard, authoritative edition of this repertoire work. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Musique religieuse / Répertoire / Chorale

Kantate zum Reformationsfest [Rekonstruktion: Reinhold Kubik]-J.S. Bach's Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott for SATB and Orchestra.Bach's Reformation cantata based on what is probably Martin Luther's most famous hymn evolved over a period of several years. At the beginning was a Weimar cantata for Oculi Sunday 1716 now missing which was based on the hymn with an instrumental quotation in the opening aria and with the final chorale. In the Leipzig years around 1730 Bach wrote a cantata for Reformation Day using this material. It began with the first verses of Luther's hymn in a simple four-part setting and also included the other verses. Later on in the 1730s or 1740s Bach replaced the introductory chorale movement with achorale setting which was unique spacious and motet-like in its style; this uniquely in this respect incorporated the choral writing in an instrumental canon for oboes and organ continuo. The powerful opening chorus is followed by recitatives and arias which reflect the full breadth of Bach's art of word painting and emotion. One of Bach's most magnificent cantatas one of the greatest works in the history of music. In addition to the complete performance material the arrangements of movements 1 and 5 (with 3 trumpets timpani as playing score) by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach are available.

A God And Yet A Man was written for the Chester Music Carol Book in 1984. It is a setting of a 15th century poem by an anonymous author scored for SSAATTBB split voice choir. It includes a Pianoreduction for rehearsal purposes.Geoffrey Burgon (1941-2010) was a British composer best known for his film and television scores such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Brideshead Revisited and MontyPython’s Life of Brian. He studied Trumpet and Composition at the Guildhall and spent the early part of his career as a successful Jazz musician.

Chorale partita on the Weihnachtsgeschichte Christmas Story-Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Op.10Chorale partita on the Weihnachtsgeschichte (Christmas Story) for Mixed choir (SATB)Hugo Distler born on the 24th June 1908 in Nuremberg and died on the 1st November 1942 in Berlin was a German organist choral conductor teacher and composer. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory moving to Berlin in 1940 where he became Director of the Berlin National and Cathedral Choir.

Britten's Te Deum In C is arranged for Treble (Soprano) solo SATB choir and Organ accompaniment.In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C it became clearthat there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. Some of these were minor: different articulation and dynamic markings something Britten was later very fussy about but perhapsleft unchanged on proof because of his relative inexperience at this stage of his career with the processes of music publishing. Others were more important: wrong pedal notes for example which Britten failed to notice on proof and which have been perpetuated in performances and recordings for nearly seventy years. These have been corrected in the new edition of the vocal score and in the orchestral score (Britten clearly used the published vocal scoreto prepare his orchestral version).The two versions have been made consistent in other details - rehearsal cues and bar numbers for example - since Britten intended choristers to use the vocal score to perform theorchestral version. This would have been an easy task for these is little discrepancy in essential details between versions (a rare departure occurs in bars 53 to 56 where the works 'Lord God of Sabaoth' are unaccompanied in theorchestral version but doubled by Organ in the original). Sustained Organ chords are often filled out with arpeggiated string writing while the spacing of chords is frequently much wider in the string version with melodiestransposed into different octaves.Although harmony in both versions is identical voice leading is sometimes altered in the latter to make it better suited to the idioms of the instruments concerned. So although inessence the two versions are the same the soundworld explored in each is quite distinct. Britten's orchestral version should neither be viewed as an occasional piece nor considered solely a liturgical work like many of his

Roméo et Juliette Op.17 Hol.73: Symphonie dramatiqueFor his third symphony ?Roméo et Juliette? (1839) Berlioz turned to his greatest literary passion Shakespeare drawing once again on his own most fervent experiences. Berlioz?s discovery of Shakespeare in 1827 had been overwhelming not only for the dramatic force of the poetry and drama but also because the leading actress of the company Harriet Smithson immediately won his heart. She later became his wife.He began to think seriously about composing some kind of musical ?Romeo and Juliet? but it was not realised until 1839. The symphony is scoredfor double chorus (to represent the two warring families) solo voices as secondary characters with the lovers themselves represented by the Orchestra.Urtext of the New Berlioz EditionFull score (BA5458) vocal score (BA5458-90) and study score (TP334) available for salePerformance material (BA5458-72) available for hire