Piano Excerpts

A collection of songs composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Obligato Instruments: Aria 1, 2 und 4: Flute/Violin Aria 3: Violoncello

Juha is a three-act opera by Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958), with a Finnish libretto by Aino Ackté-Jalander based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Juhani Aho. Although completed by 1922, it was only...

The songs are tender, touching, beguilingly beautiful. John van Rhein, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 1983, Klavierauszug, Original für High Voice and Small Orchestra, Instrumentation: 2.1.2.bcl.2 - 4000 - p...

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For Medium Voice and Piano

Joy to the World! is a delightful collection of 21 Christmas carols and songs, arranged by master choral director and composer Gwyn Arch. This collection of two-part arrangements is aimed to bridge th...

Curlew River - A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is the first of three Church Parables by Benjamin Britten. The work is based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa (Sumida River) of Juro Motomas...

In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias and Misael. It tel...

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...

Schubert's simple yet poignant setting of the first four stanzas of the Passiontide text is a gem. Brian Newbould's edition, prepared from the composer's original manuscript, will be welcomed by choir...

Schubert's much-loved masterpiece is a mainstay of the classical choral repertoire. Prepared from the composer's autograph manuscript, Brian Newbould's authoritative new performing edition takes accou...

Prepared from the composer's original manuscript by the distinguished Mozart scholar, Richard Maunder, this is the first modern Urtext edition of Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore K339.

Haydn's delightful Missa Brevis in F was both one of his earliest and latest works: he originally scored it for soloists, choir and strings, and returned to it at the end of his life to add wind parts...

Written for the Huddersfield Choral Society to commemorate the centenary of the birth in 1895 of Sir Malcolm Sargent, David Matthews' Vespers is based on four Latin texts interspersed with three poems...

A large-scale work for chorus, organ and orchestra by this gifted young Australian composer. It sets a creative myth of Akkadia (c. 1250 BC) describing the creation of the world from primeval chaos. T...

The grand motets of Michael-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), principal Chapel Music Director for Louis XIV and Louis XV, marked the high point of sacred music under the ancien régime. De profundis is t...

On the Beach at Night Alone is an attractive new work, commissioned and premiered at the Leeds Open Air Concerts in the Summer of 1999. The text is taken from a short poem by Walt Whitman which explor...

Wagner Dream by Jonathan Harvey is an opera in nine scenes for soloists, actors, chorus, large ensemble and electronics. Instrumentation: Vairochana (B)/Ananda (T)/Prakriti (S)/Mother of Prakriti(M)/B...

Instrumentation: didjeridu solo - 2222 - 4331 - timp - perc(3):tam-t/ch.cym/tgl/tubular bell (below D)/congas (pair)/timb/tom-toms(pair)/BD - strings

Britten's last completed work, written for young people's chorus and orchestra, is in five short sections: March, Roundel and Canon for orchestra and choir, and Jig and Modulation for orchestra alone.

Britten's setting of Edith Sitwell's poem 'Praise We Great Men', was left unfinished at his death. It was being written for Mstislav Rostrpovich to include in his first season with the National Sympho...