The perfect Christmas opener! This bright and energetic work presents portions of numerous well-known carols in an engaging and uplifting way. What a perfect opportunity to thrill your audience as the house lights go down and the curtains go up. Varied and creative orchestration is the hallmark of this enchanting new arrangement. Always imaginative James Curnow finds the mark once again with Cavalcade of Christmas!

Suite for Orchestra- Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne' Fauré wrote “Pelléas et Mélisande” in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard. In December 1912 the four-movement version of “Pelléas et Mélisande” was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré’s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements. Bärenreiter’s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite “Pelléas et Mélisande” Op.80 is based on “ Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works” Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016. First Urtext edition Based on “ Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works” Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

(Piano Part)-This is the Piano part for the SATB arrangement of Adele 's massive James Bond hit Skyfall . This is the Piano part for the SATB arrangement of Adele 's massive James Bond hit Skyfall .

Charpentier composed “ In Nativitatem Domini Canticum ” during his period as maître de musique at the church of St Louis in Paris (around 1690). It is in the tradition of the oratorios of Carissimi and his contemporaries but is more easily described as a “Grand Motet” or “Histoire sacrée” a genre in which Charpentier excelled. The work was probably intended for performance during mass on Christmas Day and thus had a liturgical function as was customary during the period of Louis XIV in Paris. The text presents the Christmas story in three sections: the chorus of the faithful the actual story of the birth of Jesus and the adoration ofthe shepherds in the fields. The music reveals a subtle mixture of French and Italian styles with dramatic elements. For the first time this work prepared by the acknowledged Charpentier expert Joel Schwindt is presented in a scholarly-critical edition where all sources have been consulted. A detailed foreword and critical commentary provide detailed information which fulfil all the criteria of an Urtext edition. - First Urtext edition of this work. - An important addition to the repertoire for Christmas. - Straightforward clear Piano reduction. - Foreword (Ger/Eng) and critical commentary (Eng). - Full score performance material (BA7673) & Vocal score (BA7673-90) available for sale.

The Utrecht Te Deum was first performed on 7th July 1713 at the thanksgiving service in St Paul's Cathedral London for the Treaty of Utrecht which concluded the War of Spanish Succession. Majestic fireworks were displayed along the Thames and the 'Te Deum' is also a firework of Baroque sound - it ranges through F sharp minor A minor F major D minor C major and G minor as well as the expected ceremonial D major. Full score vocal score and performance material is available for sale.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad 's One Life Stand for Mezzo-Soprano with Piano accompaninment sets a text by Sophie Hannah . 'The idea for One Life Stand originated from a discussion over lunch in Cambridge with my friend Jennifer Johnston. She was bemoaning the fact that although she loved to sing Schumann's Frauen-Liebe und Leben (Women's Lives and Loves) and was always being asked to do so she did find Chamisso's words rather outdated and suggested I write an updated version. I jumped at the chance and by pudding we were already thinking about whose poetry I might set. A few weekslater during a meeting with Chris Gribble (Chief Executive of Writers' Centre Norwich) he told us that the crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah had recently moved to Cambridge and had many suitable poems. It wasn't long before we all met up for lunch and began discussing the contenders for a series of poems that might portray a modern woman's life and loves. To begin with I had a list of about twenty five poems that I would have liked to set taken from four of Sophie's poetry collections ( The Hero and the Girl Next Door (1995) Hotels like Houses (1996) First of the Last Chances (2003) and Pessimism for Beginners (2007: all published by Carcanet Press) but the final eight in my view come together to form a narrative that is clear yet open to interpretation and contains the whole gamut of complex emotions (both serious and humorous) that made the poems such a dream to set to music. Although the idea for the work originated as a reaction to Chamisso's poetry in the course of composing the cycle I found much inspiration from Schumann's song cycle and many of the songs in my work are based very closely on either the harmony and/or the motivic material of what in my view is the corresponding song in Frauen-Liebe und Leben .' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Sancta Maria mater Dei K.273 scored for mixed choir (SATB) Strings Organ. Written in Salzburg in September 1777 it was most likely composed as an offertory motet for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the 12th September. - Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Full score & performance material (BA4751) and vocal score (BA4751-90) for sale

Composed in 2004/2005; performance material available for hire. Matthias Pintscher was born in Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany in 1971 and studied composition with Giselher Klebe and Manfred Trojahn. Formative influences were his encounters with Hans Werner Henze who invited him to Montepulciano in 1991 and 1992 and with Helmut Lachenmann Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös. Awards include first prize in the Hitzacker Composition Competition (1992) the Rolf Liebermann Prize and the Opera Prize from the Körber Foundation Hamburg (1993 and 1996) the Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize (1999) Composition Prize from the Salzburg Easter Festival andthe Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival (2000). In 2002 he was awarded the Hans Werner Henze Prize (Westphalian Music Prize). Pintscher first came to international attention with the opera Thomas Chatterton at the Semper Opera Dresden (1998) and later with his second opera L'espace dernier at the Opéra National de Paris (2004). He was composer-in-residence with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2002 the following seasons at the Konzerthaus Dortmund Lucerne Festival with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken at the Philharmonie Cologne and at the RSO Stuttgart. From 2010 onwards Pintscher is “Artist-in-Association” at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since 2014 Artist-in-residence at the Danish Radio Orchestra. As a conductor Matthias Pintscher works regularly with leading orchestras and ensembles in Europe and the USA. From 2007 to 2009 he was Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and 2010 to 2011 at the New York University. He is Music Director of the Ensemble intercontemporain and since the 2013–14 season. As of September 2014 he is Professor for composition at the Juilliard School of Music New York.

First Grace Of Light was composed for Nicholas Daniel to perform at a concert in memory of janet craxton for BBC Radio 3 on 7th November 1991.

The Queens Service-SATB and organ Stanford's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F was written in 1872 while the composer was a choral and organ scholar at Queens' College Cambridge. Though early in date the work already shows his remarkable talent for composition and his gift for writing large-scale choral music. Edited by Ralph Woodward a latter-day organ scholar of Stanford's old college the setting is entitled The Queens' Service to distinguish it from the more well-known service in the same key. The work has been recorded by Queens' College Chapel Choir on Mirabilis Records (MMSCD4).

Conductors of beginning bands are always looking for fresh material that will be fun for the band while the students continue sharpening their playing skills. You and your students will certainly have a great time with this new Grade 1 piece by Douglas Court. Cast in a relaxed “island” style it’s a great way to help young musicians understand the need for smooth tonguing and playing phrases that connect numerous notes with a continuous air stream. With Seaside Calypso in the folders you can continue teaching while you prepare for the concert.Easy-goin’!

By arranging this famous Leroy Anderson piece as a duet the sound is full and rich while also being very playable for two late intermediate level artists. The Secondo part will be basically accompanimental but with great counter-melodies rhythms and accents. The Primo part will carry the melody sometimes with the melody doubled in the hands and sometimes with chords.

Les Soli De L'Arlesienne by Georges Bizet arranged for Alto Saxophone and Piano by Felix Chardon. Intermezzo no.3 (minuetto) from this work appears on the Trinity Grade 6 Saxophone syllabus.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Unto The Rainbow for Trumpet Piano and Electronics. Unto the Rainbow was commissioned by John Rubinstein (Master of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers) and premiered on the 21st April 2016 by Brant Tilds (flugelhorn) and Cheryl Frances-Hoad (piano and electronics) at the 'Corwainers Extravanganza for Blind People'. The charitable event was a 'festival of touch voice colour and Shakespeare' and its purpose was to raise awareness of the needs of blind and visually impaired people in the community.

Zulu Folk Song-Jabula Jesu is not hard to learn and yet creates very rich textures that allow for great variety in shaping and phrasing. The piece can be performed completely unaccompanied but two or more percussionists can be added as desired. Jabula Jesu is based on an African folk song and uses the standard SATB choir to layer polyrhythms and ostinato in fragmented phrases that repeat across the song. Although unaccompanied the piece features parts for two optional percussionists if desired.

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad's The Prophecy for Cello and Piano. Duration: 15 minutes

Für Violine Solo- Geschrieben für Isabelle Faust Patricia Kopatchinskaja Hansheinz Schneeberger und Thomas Zehetmair sind die 4 Hommages teils vergnügliche Encores teils ausgewachsene Konzertstücke und Etüden in avancierten zeitgenössischen Spieltechniken.

16 Pieces From 5 Centuries- The ‘Easy Concert Pieces’ series presents a varied selection of easy concert pieces for flute and piano from the Renaissance Baroque and Classical periods through to the modern era. To facilitate choosing individual pieces for performance and auditions at music schools competitions or examinations these pieces have been ordered according to level of musical and technical difficulty: Volume 1 (ED 22925) contains very easy to easy pieces with a range of notes up to two octaves. These generally song-like and intuitively straightforward melodies require simple breathing techniques. Phrasing is supported throughout by clear and straightforward pianoaccompaniments.

Three Sketches from the legendary Frank Bridge for Piano solo.