The Sodger's Return

The Sodger's Return

Tam Glen

The Standard On The Braes O' War

Ah! When The Last Dread Hour

Guard Thy Soul

Give Me Back My Lord

Trust In The Lord

The Scottish Orpheus Collection Volume 1

The Pastoral Cantata

'Twas In The Cool Eventide

Where'er You Walk from the opera Semele . For unison chorus and piano accompaniment. Edited by J. Michael Diack.

Anthem for SATB Choir and Organ. Text: Isaac Watts

Studies on Tone Colour and Interpretation.

The Peasant Cantata was written and performed in 1742 as an act of homage to Carl Heinrich Von Dieskau on his becoming 'Lord Of The Manor'. The libretto supplied by Picander deals with the rejoicing of villagers and their congratulations and good wishes to the new laird and his wife. Many folk melodies are introduced and most of the numbers are based on merry country dance tunes.

TTBB arrangement by J. Michael Diack with apologies to Handel.

Twelve instructional pieces for the piano.

A superb collection of Highland Reels Strathspeys Jigs and Marches for all occassions.

Malcolm Arnold’s Concerto No 1 For Flute And Strings (1954) is a work of high energy and quickly shifting tonalities pointed with dissonances and overlaid with flowing lines of the Flute alternating with skittering flurries in both Flute and Strings. The demands are the Flute soloist are virtuosic.Malcolm Arnold was a British composer who earned an international reputation both as a composer of serious works including nine symphonies and as a composer of light music. He composed more than one hundred film scores among them the Oscar-winning music for The Bridge on the River Kwai the award-winning music for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Whistle Down the Wind andHobson’s Choice.

In 1834 Mendelssohn set the poem Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Heinrich Heine and published it as the second of his Six Songs for Voice and Piano. It achieved a popularity that has lasted through the present and has been arranged for many instrument combinations. On Wings of Song is has the typical form of an early Mendelssohn lied in strophic form with a transformation in the final verse. The rippling accompaniment suggests the flowing Ganges to which the lovers fly ‘on wings of song’.In 1834 Mendelssohn set the poem Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Heinrich Heine and published it as the second of his Six Songs for Voice and Piano. It achieved a popularity that has lasted through the present and has been arranged for many instrument combinations. On Wings of Song is has the typical form of an early Mendelssohn lied in strophic form with a transformation in the final verse. The rippling accompaniment suggests the flowing Ganges to which the lovers fly ‘on wings of song’.