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Gluck, der Reformer? : Nürnberg, 18.-20. Juli 2014

Corp: Away In A Manger for SSA Chorus

Away in a Manger is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. Ranking joint second in a 1996 Gallup Poll, it is one of the most popular carols in Britain. The earliest known publication, in The Myrtle, ascribed the lyrics to German Protestant reformer Martin Luther, explicitly referencing his 400th birthday in 1883. For many years this attribution continued to be made – however, it appears to be false: the hymn is found nowhere among Luther's works and was most likely written specifically for his 400th birthday and attributed to him as a ‘marketing gimmick’. This edition for SSA Choir presents the Normandy tune as arranged by Ronald Corp – a composer, conductor and Church of England priest.

Airs d'Opera français : Baritone

This volume contains French operatic arias for baritone from works that opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck was commissioned to compose for the Paris Opéra: “Iphigénie en Aulide” (1774) “Cythère assiégée” (1775) “Alceste”(1776) “Armide” (1777) “Iphigénie en Tauride” (1779). The informative text sections contain a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic context and a literal English translation of each aria.About the series:Christoph Willibald Gluck: French Operatic Arias. For the first time all the arias from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s French operas are being published in arrangements for voice and piano. This series, a coproduction with the Centrede musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), presents this collection according to voice register in four volumes.With their wealth of arias and informative texts, these volumes offer a rich treasure-trove from works by this major18th-century opera composer for use in voice lessons, auditions and recitals.

Guy Weitz: In Paradisum for Organ

Belgian Organist, composer, Organ reformer and teacher Guy Weitz was born in Verviers and studied in Paris but fled to London in 1914 at the outbreak of war, where he lived the rest of his life. A brilliantly accomplished and respected Organist, he was personal Organist to the Archbishop of Westminster and for fifty years was the Organist at the Farm Street Church in Mayfair, London.By most accounts, he was tricky, irascible person who wrote demanding post-Romantic music mostly in the French style, including two symphonies for Organ. In Paradisum is one of his lesser-known works, beginning in C minor with a series of rising motifs to arrive at a tranquil middle interlude scored entirely in the bass clef and ending with an untimed bar of pianissimo echo viole and voix celeste figures before returnting to tempo primo and Orchestral textures. It is a piece that requires some application to get to the heart of, perhaps not unlike the composer.

Earl Hines: Piano Genius At Work (7CDs/DVD)

Earl Hines is often named the “Father of Modern Jazz Piano” and not without good reason. He was a Piano pioneer, not only in excelling and exercising his mastery of harmony and rhythm in solos, but in establishing the Piano as an important member of any jazz ensemble. The trumpet-style phrasing Hines formed a close creative unit with Louis Armstrong all the while being a band leader and extravagant reformer: Never afraid to go beyond known borders and challenge the listener’s ear. This 7 CD plus one DVD box set features solo sessions from Hines ’ early days in 1928 and up to 1974 in New York and Chicago, 1948 radio broadcasts from Blue Note in Chicago with Louis Armstrong and his All Stars, a series of 1954 through 1955 live recordings from the infamous Club Hangover in San Francisco, 1954 collaborations with the Muggsy Spanier All Stars, numerous 1959 recordings with the Earl Hines Quartet from London House in Chicago and on the DVD, a 1970 take of Earl Hines solo on Piano and Vocal. In the detailed liner notes, Dan Morgenstern writes: “ Hines endures, and this collection is a fine representation of his art and craft ”.