SKU: HL.49045802
UPC: 841886028890. 8.25x11.75x0.05 inches.
This arrangement of Dido's Lament was written for the funeral of the composer's friend Frank Campbell. As Frank was such an accomplished pianist, no keyboard music was included in the service in deference, only vocal works by Frank, with the exception of this arrangement by Bryars.
SKU: TM.02802SET
Cembalo in score. Includes recit: Thy hand Belinda.
SKU: TM.02802SC
SKU: OU.9780193722507
ISBN 9780193722507. 12 x 8 inches.
This evocative solo piano piece looks back, as though in some troubled dream, to fragments of Purcell and Tippett. The widely spaced opening notes are interrupted, after only eight bars, by a quick and relentlessly turbulent passage. A brief reference to the opening of Tippett's Fourth Symphony leads into a slower, more expressive section; a predominantly mysterious, even glassy sound world from which emerges the poignant notes of Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, now at last momentarily in its correct juxtaposition. Finally, a tiny fragment of the music is spun obsessively until it falls out of control and back into the carefully placed notes of the opening.
SKU: HL.49045320
ISBN 9781495082559. UPC: 888680656683. 9.0x12.0x0.16 inches. Vocalise.
In writing Music for Eight Lungs I wanted to treat the voice similarly to the instruments, so that the piece would weave all four parts into a fabric equally. But I also wanted to play with our perception of the voice as a vehicle for communication and language. So the vocal part is given various phonemes which seem quite word-like at times, and in fact are often drawn from the vowel sounds from Henry Purcell's 'Dido's Lament'. As I played with my own musical materials, the idea of a descending lament figure kept recurring in different ways, propelling the music forward. Hannah Lash.
SKU: AP.12-0571542026
ISBN 9780571542024. English.
The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 emotive pieces of classical music, designed to tug at the heart-strings, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo from Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Dido's Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork.
