Mixed Choir (SATB divisi) and Piano

Kim André Arnesen

 

• Choral score
• Text by Charles Anthony Silvestri
• Part of the Contemporary Choral Series
• Suitable for intermediate choirs
• Published by Boosey & Hawkes

 

Weddings are joyful occasions – for the happy couple as well as for their community. When a couple stands before their friends and families, and sometimes in sacred settings before God, they make vows to each other. These vows are not simply words from some ancient ceremony; they represent a covenant to be fulfilled. But some couples are called on to fulfil their vows to each other sooner rather than the more expected later.

The text, by Charles Anthony Silvestri, is based on the author’s own experience loving his own wife through her difficult illness and early death, and it serves as a reminder to all those who take these vows that they come due sooner or later.

Suitable for intermediate choirs, Arnesen’s music is emotive and touching, at first portraying the joy and love of two people making their vows and, later, the turmoil of a breaking heart.

Mixed Choir (SATB divisi) a cappella

Becky McGlade

 

• Choral score
• Short, rhythmical work set on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, To a Skylark
• Part of the Contemporary Choral Series
• Suitable for advanced choirs
• Published by Boosey & Hawkes

 

This short, rhythmical work is inspired by an area of McGlade’s native Cornwall. The area, where a common meets the sea, is home to many skylarks who, it is thought, sing to ward off predators out to steal their young from nests hidden in the long grass.

Suitable for advanced choirs, To a Skylark is a setting of just a few verses of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lengthy poem in which the composer portrays, through the quick, light, undulating melodies, this joyous bird flitting its wings and pouring forth its rapturous strains. The music is quite dissonant at times and the tonality purposefully a little unstable – trouble and danger may be close at hand, but the skylark’s song continues above it. In the final verse, the poet brings the focus on himself, longing perhaps that he could live life with the same carefree gladness of the skylark. This contemplative mood is captured in the slower, more expressive music of the closing section. The piece ends very softly; all is still as we listen attentively to the birdsong.

Mixed Choir (SATB divisi) and Piano; double bass, drums, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone ad lib

Will Todd

 

• Choral score
• A three-movement work exploring love
• Includes a variety of accompaniment options
• Commissioned by Elena Sharkova for the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale
• Published by Boosey & Hawkes

 

Will Todd’s Songs of Love is a three-movement work exploring love through musical settings of beautiful poetry by Nils Peterson, based on words of Greek origin (two female poets and one anonymous lyric). From impassioned declaration, to sensual imagery and sorrowful remembrance of love lost, the work takes the performer and listener on an emotional journey to which Todd’s characteristic luscious harmonies, melodic craftmanship, and mastery of varied, often jazz-influenced styles are particularly suited.

Songs of Love may be performed complete or as separate movements, accompanied by piano alone (as written, embellished or extemporised – chord symbols are supplied throughout) or jazz trio (piano, bass and drums) with optional soprano or alto saxophone (parts available separately).

op. 14

Piano

Vladimir Horowitz

 

• Previously unpublished work
• Suitable for concert performance
• Part of The Horowitz Edition series
• Advanced level

 

It’s possible that Fragment Douloureux, op. 14 may have been the last composition that Horowitz wrote before leaving Russia in the 1920s. Dedicated to Felix Blumenfeld, the piece is filled with agony, highlighted by the extreme dynamics, triplet rhythms and chromatic chords. Suitable for advanced pianists.

Vladimir Horowitz is considered to be one of the most important pianists of the 20th century. After his death in 1989, he not only left behind an impressive number of audio recordings of his piano transcriptions, but also a collection of his own piano compositions. A number of these works are being published for the first time under the Horowitz Edition, giving pianists the chance to discover these previously unavailable treasures.

Flute and Piano

Lili Boulanger

 

• A collection of flute works by Lili Boulanger
• Suitable for concert performance
• Part of the Edition Schottseries
• Intermediate – Advanced level

 

This volume is a collection of four short pieces for flute (or violin) and piano by Lili Boulanger. The editors, Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter, have chosen to base this new edition on the first editions. Original manuscript scores, manuscript copies and alternative versions have only been consulted for potential clarification of editorial queries. Pièce (1910) has only survived as an original manuscript, which has been reproduced in this volume as faithfully as possible.

Suitable for intermediate and advanced flautists, these four pieces are individual works but can be performed together as suites of two, three or four movements where required.

for Piano Duet

20 Classical Arrangements

Hans-Günter Heumann (ed)

 

• 20 classical arrangements from Vivaldi to Orff
• Part of the popular Best of Classics series
• Intermediate level

 

Two new volumes have been added to the popular Best of Piano Classics series. Original works and arrangements written for piano four hands for double the fun!

Best of Piano Duets 2 contains 20 arrangements for discerning lovers of classical masterpieces, including the famous Canon by Pachelbel, Das klinget so herrlich by Mozart and Morning Mood by Grieg.

Complete with fingerings, tempo suggestions and pedal indications and published in a modern and reader-friendly layout, these pieces, selected for intermediate players, are recommended not only for lessons but also for any hobbyist who loves to play the piano.

for Piano Duet

20 Original Pieces

Hans-Günter Heumann (ed)

 

• 20 original duets from Haydn to Reger
• Part of the popular Best of Classics series
• Intermediate level

 

Two new volumes have been added to the popular Best of Piano Classics series. Original works and arrangements written for piano four hands for double the fun!

Best of Piano Duets 1 contains 20 original duets, including the popular Waltz and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms and Military March by Schubert.

Complete with fingerings, tempo suggestions and pedal indications and published in a modern and reader-friendly layout, these pieces, selected for intermediate players, are recommended not only for lessons but also for any hobbyist who loves to play the piano.

Viola

Franz Anton Hoffmeister

 

• Urtext edition
• Staple repertoire for the viola
• Part of the Essential Exercises Series
• Intermediate – Advanced level

 

As a music publisher in Vienna, Franz Anton Hoffmeister secured an important place in music history. But he was also an extremely prolific and valued composer of Viennese Classic.

Suitable for intermediate and advanced viola players, Hoffmeister’s 12 Studies offer a selection of playing techniques from the Mozart/Beethoven era, with scales, triads and position playing, double stops, arpeggios, as well as cantabile and polyphonic playing.

on a theme by Irina Kircher

Guitar

Alfonso Montes

 

• Variations on Irina Kircher’s “Feuerbacher Variations”
• Suitable for concert performance
• Intermediate level

 

Variations by the Venezuelan-German composer Alfonso Montes on the melancholic and pensive D minor theme “Feuerbacher Variations” by his duo partner, the guitarist Irina Kircher.

A colourful, atmospheric concert piece with varied movements, suitable for intermediate guitarists.

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Choir (SSAA) a cappella

Leokadiya Kashperova

 

• Choral score with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
• Edited by Graham Griffiths
• A setting of Polonsky
• Intermediate level
• Published by Boosey & Hawkes

 

The pencil manuscript of Evening & Night was discovered in the Russian National Museum of Music, Moscow. Although separate and self-contained it appears that Kashperova thought of the two songs as a pair. The songs, a Polonsky setting of pastoral verses, date from the last two decades of the composer’s life, after her withdrawal from musical life following the Russian Revolution.

The work has been edited for performance by Graham Griffiths as part of the Kashperova Edition and is suitable for intermediate choirs.

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920.