Salve Regina (satb)

Herbert Howells' Salve Regina is set for SSATBB O Salutaris Hostia for SATB a cappella. These Latin pieces have been edited by Patrick Russill.

For double SATB choir unaccompanied. Commissioned by CoMA London UK with funds from the Performing Rights Foundation and subscribers to CoMA's CoMmissioning Scheme.

Three motets to the Virgin Mary: 'Salve Regina' 'Ave Regina Caelorum' Alma Redemptoris Mater'. For SATB Choir A Cappella.

Dona nobis Pacem (Donne nous la paix) est un extrait de l'Agnus Dei de la messe catholique romaine, Cette phrase a été mise en musique de nombreuses fois dans l'histoire de la musique vocale, Bruno Rossignol l'inclut dans la série de ses oeuvres sacrées qui comprend : Stabat Mater, Salve Regina, Ave verum, Exurgens autem Maria, / Choeur Mixte

Marian Antiphon-Composer's note:'Each year at their Summer Festival in Tavistock the Exon Singers feature the music of a living composer. In the summer of 2008 I was privileged to be the chosen composer. Salve Regina was written for the Festival and was performed once at a concert and subsequently at the broadcast of Choral Evensong in Buckfast Abbey.The music is unaccompanied and set for a six-part choir with two parts for both sopranos and basses (and divisi for altos and tenors in the final phrase). The music begins gently and there is some dialogue between upper and lower voices. The climax in the middle uses all six parts and the end is quiet and reflective. Although some of thephrases are short they should be sung with much expression and with appropriate crescendos and diminuendos.'

'In 2010 I was invited to be composer-in-residence at the Exon Singers Festival. As part of my residency I was commissioned by the festival's director Matthew Owens to compose a new setting of the ???Salve Regina??? (a Marian hymn popular with composers from Vittoria to Schubert and beyond) for Radio 3's broadcast of Choral Evensong from Buckfast Abbey. The resulting piece takes the opening four notes of the original plainchant (solemn tone) as its starting point these then being elaborated through the course of the work and retuning at key points.'

Par HOFMANN LEOPOLD. 'Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live' is one of the central biblical texts dealing with the transitoriness of human existence. Leopold Hofmann, Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna from 1772 to 1793, where W. A. Mozart was his church music assistant, also set this strongly expressive text. Hofmann's setting, in C minor, offers an austere harmony, characterized by suspensions in a homophonic, through-composed four-part vocal setting (soloists or SATB choir), reinforced only by two trombones and organ continuo. Four concise instrumental transitional passages between the individual verses relieve the pathos laden Viennese church style of this composition. With its tragic air, in some passages it closely resembles Mozart's Requiem K. 626. For this first edition, the two trombone parts are available both in the original clef and in alto clef. The figured bass has been realized so that the piece can also be performed without trombones, with only organ accompaniment. For a performance this piece could easily be combined with the Salve Regina by Pietro Cassati (Carus 27.703) from the Vienna series./ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte (SATB) et Orchestre

In 1732 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi composed a setting of the Vespers in honor of St. Emidius Naples’s patron saint and protector against earthquakes. All that has survived are the introit Domine ad adjuvandum and three psalm settings: Dixit Dominus Laudate and Confitebor.Malcolm Bruno’s reconstruction consists of Pergolesi’s Hymnus Magnificat several short instrumental interpolations and the contrafactum of a secular cantata for the Salve Regina thereby presenting a full cross-section of Pergolesi’s artistic evolution. The reconstructed Vespers ranges from the early Confitebor with its allusions to Vivaldi to the late Salve Regina with its reminiscences of thefamous Stabat Mater; from contrapuntal choral writing to operatic arias; and from the magnificently scored Dixit to the almost intimate Laudate.The present edition follows the original sources as closely as possible and contains an appendix with detailed notes on performance practice.Performance material available for hireEffective reconstruction of a full-length workCross-section of Pergolesi’s sacred musicClear and easy-to-play piano reduction

Canticle of the Sun of Francis of Assisi-Salve regina & Cantico delle creatureCanticle of the Sun of Francis of Assisi- Mixed choir (SATB)Petr Eben (1929 - 2007) is among the best known Czech composers. He grew up in Southern Bohemia learning to play both the Piano and the Organ and later studied Piano and composition at the Prague Academy of Music. His popularity extends well beyond his native country and his works are frequently performed.