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£82.50While Angels Watched - Gene Milford
The beauty, anticipation and drama of the first Christmas Eve is reflected in this collage of familiar classical melodies and timeless carols. The famous Children's Prayer from the opera "Hansel and Gretel" frames settings of Away in a Manger; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; Brahms's Lullaby (Wiegenlied) and the Welsh folk song All Through the Night. A wonderfully peaceful setting that creates a welcome moment of quiet reflection during this special time of year.
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£286.40Symphonie Pour Orchestre D'Harmonie - Ida Gotkovsky
This Symphony in two parts is an early work from the celebrated composer Ida Gotkovsky. Attracted by composition from her earliest years, Ida Gotkovsky entered the Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de Musique de Paris. After passing some years in these classes in the rue de Madrid, she was awarded all the leading prizes for writing and composition. She also gained many international awards including the Prix Blumenthal and the Prix de l'Institut de France. This artist is situated in the French School which, in her view, is the ideal synthesis of the Art of Music. Chamber music, symphonic music, lyrical music, ballet music. All are widely represented among her works. Numerous State commissions have been awarded to her, including an Opera 'Le reve de Makar' for which she wrote the libretto herself. This work was crowned with the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris. At the age of 32 she wrote this impressive and beautiful masterpiece in the style of Ravel.
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£186.20Geschwind Marsch by Beethoven - Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith received his musical education from his ninth year and in 1909 he began his studies of composition and violin in Frankfurt. At twenty he becane concertmaster of the local opera orchestra. Apart from that he was member of various chambermusic endembles.Hindemith has always been sympathetic towards the amateur-musician. He wrote a couple of works for windband. In 1946 he wrote "Symphonia Serena". From this symphony Mr. Juan Vte Mas Quiles arranged the "Geschwindmars" for windband
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£61.00Prima la Musica - Terry Kenny
The idea for this came when I was reading a critic's review of an opera; the critic quoted an Italian saying: -Prima la Musica- the music comes first!Apologies to Verdi for the tune used in the trio section!
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£140.80Sarka Overture - Zdenek Fibich
This overture introducing Fibich's opera 'Sarka', was composed between 1896 and 1897 and is based on a famous Bohemian legend. Several Czech composers, such as Bedrich Smetana and Leos Janacek, have used this popular national story in opera's and symphonic poems. The relevant legend deals with Vlasta, the courageous Amazone Queen who has a quarrel with the Bohemian knights. After several battles she thinks of a cunning to conquer the knights. She leaves her ally, the beautiful Sarka, tied up to a tree in the middle of the forest. The knight Ctirad finds her, frees her and takes her back to his camp. In the evening he organizes a kind of victory celebration with his friends. At night, while the knights sleep it off, Sarka calls the Amazones. The latter have no difficulties to conquer the sleeping knights. Fibich does not keep strictly to the original legend and made quite some changes, especially at the end of the story.
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£140.80Italienische Lustspiel Ouverture - Ted Huggens
This work was composed in the style of an Italian opera overture. The first part has a quick tempo and flashing dynamics, and contains some virtuoso passages. It has clearly been inspired by Rossini's music. The slow second movement is based on the popular Italian folksong 'Santa Lucia'. It looks like a serenade with trumpet and alto saxophone solos. The themes of the first movement come back in the fast final movement with a virtuoso part for the bass instruments. The composer adds now and then some motorial rhythm.
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£61.00Salve Maria - Saverio Mercadente
The Italian composer Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870) was highly estimated by his contemporaries, even Liszt and Rossini praised him much. He wrote over 60 operas and was one of the 19th century operacomposers whose works were most often performed. 'Salve Maria' was originally a religious song dating from 1864. Mercadante was also fascinated by instrumental music and so he arranged a lot of his opera arias and several songs for solo instruments with orchestral accompaniment.
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£90.30Flowersong From Carmen - Georges Bizet
Bizet's famous opera "Carmen" is frequently performed as a commercial production, also for television. One of the most beloved arias, the Flower Song, is now arranged not only for tenor voice, but also for Euphonium with wind orchestra.
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£90.30Goyescas - E. Granados
The pianist and composer Enrique Granados y Campina (Lrida 1867) studied composition with Pedrell in Barcelona. He went to Paris in 1887 to study the piano with de Beriot. In 1901 he founded his own piano school in Barcelona. Granados and his wife died on their way back from America when the passenger ship 'Sussex' was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Channel on 24 March 1916. As a composer he became the founder of the specific Spanish national music. He was most of all inspired by the Spanish capital and more precisely by the Madrid of Francisco Goya. In 1911 he composed two piano albums 'Goyescas', inspired by paintings and tapestries of the painter Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), famous for his brillant originality and bizarre imagination. Later on he developed this music into an opera, based on a libretto by Fernando Periquet.
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£76.80Intermezzo 'Il Sogno' - Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (Livorno 1863 - Rome 1945) got famous overnight when his first opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana' was premiered in 1890. Of his later operas only 'L'Amico Fritz' and 'Iris' got some success. However several arias and intermezzi are still on the traditional concert repertoire. This is also the case for this intermezzo 'Il Sogno'(The Dream) brilliantly arranged for symphonic band by Wil van der Beek.
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