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Concert Collection For Tenor Saxophone : 15 original pieces

Take the stage with 'The Christopher Norton Concert Collection for Tenor Saxophone'. Explore stunning music for tenor saxophone and piano for intermediate to advanced-level players, from the creator of 'Microjazz'! The collection includes 15 entertaining and inventive pieces based on well-known American folk tunes, Christmas carols and nursery rhymes.

15 Art Songs by American Composers

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15 Art Songs by American Composers

Zilver

This 15-minute piece was written in 1994 by one of Europe's most eminent and influential composers. It was described by the Los Angeles Times in these terms: ... the inner voices of strings and winds are framed, punctuated and sabotaged by stabbing accents from the mallet instruments and piano. And therein lies the rugged beauty. Paradoxically, this is seductively mechanistic music.

Oculi Omnium

Part of the new Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series, this is a peaceful setting of the plainchant gradual taken from the Book of Psalms, Psalm 145 vv 14–15. This text is one of the College Graces of Brasenose College, University of Oxford. The work’s expressive melodic line creates a resoundingly comforting atmosphere. It won the Brasenose College Oxford Platnauer Grace competition in 2010, receiving a premiere by internationally-acclaimed vocal group Voces8 in Brasenose College Chapel.

A Midsummer Night's Dream : Choral Suite

Based on Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream,Op. 64, this 15-minute choral suite was arranged and adapted by Lee Kesselman, and he has remained true to Britten's original score, with some adaptations to lend itself to a choral ensemble. These four choruses can be performed singly or as a suite. The editor has added some optional introductory lines, using words of Shakespeare which help to frame each chorus. This work presents an excellent and accessible opportunity for young singers to experience the operatic works of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century--Benjamin Britten.

Book Of Visions

The 35-minute orchestral suite, Book of Visions, was co-commissioned by the Orchestre National de Belgique, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and received its premiere in Brussels on 15 April2005, conducted by Mikko Franck.The work consists of four orchestral tales of night, fire, love and fate. Each aims to extract the essence of the phenomenon, not in a descriptive way but rather as perceived by thecomposer metaphysically, an approach akin to that of his series of ‘Angel’ works. Although no exact narrative is intended, the final tale inevitably suggests autobiographical elements, as its composition was violentlyinterruptedby a near-fatal heart attack in January 2004.

Serenades HPS 1803

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and co-commissioned by Radio France and Norddeutscher Rundfunk, this work was composed in 2020. It was first performed the following year at Symphony Center, Chicago, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu. The Chicago Classical Review commented, “There is a lurking elemental power in this turbulent work, echoing Lindberg’s compatriot Jean Sibelius, but transmuted through a 21st-century lens. Cast in a single movement of 15 minutes, the music also fitfully evokes the middle movements of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony in its sense of nocturnal unease.” The Times added, "With a shimmer of strings, ominous brass and the moth-wing flurries of woodwinds, Serenades drew us into the depths of the night ... the chameleon Finnish composer has written a visceral, turbulent nightscape."

Symphony No. 4

Unlike MacMillan’s first three symphonies Symphony no 4 (2014 15) is essentially abstract. Here he is interested in the interplay of different types of material, following upon a fascination with music as ritualthat has stretched from Monteverdi in the early 17th century through to Boulez and Birtwistle in the present day. There are four distinct archetypes in this work, which can be viewed as rituals of movement, exhortation, petitionand joy. It is also a homage to Robert Carver (c1487 after 1566), the most important Scottish composer of the High Renaissance. There are allusions to Carver’s 10-voice Mass Dum sacrum mysterium embedded in the symphony, and atanumber of points it emerges from across the centuries in a more discernible form: the vocal lines are muted and muffled, literally in the distance, as they are played delicately by the back desks of the violas, cellos and doublebasses.

The Boosey & Hawkes Cello Anthology : 29 Pieces by 20 Composers

29 pieces by 20 of Boosey & Hawkes' most prominent composers. Includes works by Béla Bartók, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ned Rorem, Igor Stravinsky, and others. Contents: ADLER: Scherzofrom Sonata (unaccompanied) · ANDRIESSEN: Elegy · BARTOK: First Rhapsody, 1st mvt. · BERNSTEIN: Meditation No. 1 from Mass · BRIDGE: Sonata, 1st mvt. · BRITTEN: Elegia from Sonata in C, Op. 65 · COPLAND: Billy and His Sweetheartfrom Billy the Kid · Waltz and Celebration from Billy the Kid · DELIUS: Caprice · Elegy · Romance, Op. posth · FINZI: Cello Concerto, Op. 40, 2nd. mvt. · GOLDSCHMIDT: Caprice melancolique from Cello Concerto · KATS-CHERNIN:Slicked Back Tango · KERNIS: Ballad · KODALY: Sonatina · LEES: Sonata, 2nd mvt. · MACMILLAN: Celtic Hymn from Northern Skies · Nocturne from Northern Skies · MARTINU: Variations on a Theme of Rossini · PROKOFIEV: Ballade, Op. 15 ·RACHMANINOFF: Danse orientale, Op. 2, No. 2 · Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, 3rd mvt. · Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 · ROREM: Remembrance of Things Past from After Reading Shakespeare (unaccompanied) · Adagio from Dances · Pas de Deuxfrom Dances · STRAVINSKY: Introduzione from Suite italienne · Serenata from Suite italienne