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Archer, Malcolm: Sleigh Bells Across the Snow Ref: H466

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With Sleigh Bells across the Snow, renowned recitalist and composer of popular church music Malcolm Archer reveals another facet of his talented musicianship - namely, his love of light music and his mastery of the theatre organ.

The latest addition to Stainer & Bell's stylish Light Organ Series, Sleigh Bells across the Snow was conceived in the spirit of Leroy Anderson, and joyfully follows the tradition of his and other notable sleigh rides. Bells and chimes feature prominently, ad libitum. But as the composer himself remarks, in true theatre-organ spirit, players should also feel free to add their own embellishments, glissandi, or whatever else takes their fancy!

Price: £4.25

By Babylon's Streams Ref: H455

Organ music of the English Romantic School
Selected and edited by Martin Ellis
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This album presents some of the finest and most ambitious works written by English organist composers active between the late-Victorian period and the years following the First World War. Its contents include the Scherzoso of Walter Battison Haynes, the Nunc Dimittis of Charles Wood, the Fantasy on the Tune 'Babylon's Streams' by William Harris, the Impromptu No. 2 in D by Sydney Nicholson, the Lament by Harvey Grace, and Epinikion (Song of Victory) by Cyril Bradley Rootham. Martin Ellis brings his great experience of the repertoire to the notes for performance and textual commentary for each piece, which will prove invaluable for contemporary
players.

Price: £10.95

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Depart in Peace Ref: H464

Fifteen pieces for use at Funerals and Memorial Services
Arranged by John Norris.
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Bist du bei mir (Bach)
Nimrod (from the Enigma Variations) (Elgar)
Finlandia ('Be still, my soul') (Sibelius)
Candle in the Wind (Elton John & Bernie Taupin)
The Broken Melody (Auguste van Biene)
Contakion of the Dead ('Give rest, O Christ') (Kiev Melody)
O rest in the Lord (from Elijah) (Mendelssohn)
Prelude (from the 48 Preludes & Fugues) (Bach)
Dead March (from Saul) (Handel)
Largo (from the 'New World' Symphony) (Dvorak)
Improvisation on Brother James' Air (Norris (after Bain))
I know that my redeemer liveth (from Messiah) (Handel)
Libera me (from the Requiem) (Verdi)
Adagietto (from the Fifth Symphony) (Mahler)
Nunc Dimittis (from the Evening Service in C) (Stanford)

Price: £11.95

Hayes, Morgan: Lute Stop Ref: Y215

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Lute Stop, inspired by the legendary playing of Glen Gould and Alexis Weissenberg, is the latest bravura solo from Morgan Hayes, an outstanding young British composer of piano music. The interpretative style of these performers, favouring a block-like rather than a nuanced approach to dynamics, is mirrored in the formal aspect of the piece and the extreme dynamic contrasts of its material. Sudden shifts in register, octave doublings and quiet left-hand punctuations also feature prominently in the textures, suggesting changes of registration on a harpsichord - hence the title.

Price: £5.50

Hayes, Morgan: Strides. Book 1 Ref: Y229

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Morgan Hayes is a noted young British composer of piano music, whose work has been programmed by leading contemporary pianists including Andrew Ball, Stephen Gutman, Rolf Hind, Sarah Nicolls and Ian Pace. For friends and fellow performers he often writes short, celebratory bagatelles entitled Strides, and three of them are collected here in the first book of an ongoing series. Fugitive visions that include 'Wisps of Melody', a bright fanfare and a disjointed march, they are within the range of younger pianists possessing a confident technique of around Grade 5 or above, and pianists of any age with an appetite for bold new repertoire.

Price: £5.50

Hayes, Morgan: Strides. Book 2 Ref: Y236

Five pieces for solo piano
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Ideal for confident young pianists keen to explore cutting-edge new music, the second book of Strides by Morgan Hayes adds five more distinctively original miniatures to the three 'fugitive visions' already published in Strides Book 1.

Propulsive rhythm and melody mark out turbid expressive territory in the first two pieces, while the third Stride explores 'glacial' octaves, and the fourth and fifth add new fantasy to a Bach sarabande and a chaconne.

Specific technical challenges in each piece test the reflex and stamina of players of Grade 6 standard and above, who will also enjoy the impressive virtuoso impact Strides deliver in performance.

Price: £5.50

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Helyer, Marjorie: The Greenwood Tree Ref: H459

Ten Pieces for Piano
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The tradition of writing short programmatic piano pieces for children, more or less invented by Schumann in his Kinderszenen of 1836, is among the most enduring traditions of Western music, having survived every change of style and fashion over the years. The twelve piano pieces by Marjorie Helyer in The Greenwood Tree are conceived in the mood of Schumann, translated perhaps to an English landscape, with haymakers, dragonflies, the merry cricket, the silver birch, the rabbit's playtime and the village green all portrayed in sound. As well as being beautifully written for small hands learning their way around the keyboard, these pieces also provide valuable preparation in sharpening imaginative responses to a a broad range of more complex music, to be encountered by young pianists in due course. First published in 1952 but unavailable for some time, The Greenwood Tree is now reissued in a fresh and contemporary engraving, which includes the composer's original fingering.

Price: £4.25

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Ogden, Nigel: At Your Service Ref: H456

Fifteen Practical Voluntaries for Church Organists.
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Easy liturgical organ music in an accessible modern style is always welcome, and Nigel Ogden, well-known contributor to Stainer & Bell's 'Light Organ' series and host of 'the Organist Entertains' on BBC Radio 2, has composed fifteen new pieces for use within the communion service or other acts of worship. They are suitable both for traditional and electronic keyboard instruments, and may be performed on single or multi-manuals, with the bass played optionally on pedals as desired. There are fanfares and festal voluntaries to accompany the dramatic high-points of the liturgy, as well as tranquil melodies for reposeful moments of meditation and private devotion, plus preludes on familiar hymns to collect the thoughts of the whole congregation. Flexibility is the watchword of At Your Service, which offers a really practical contribution to the repertoire of useful music for church organists.

Price: £5.25

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Ogden, Nigel: Saints on a Spree Ref: H461

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The latest addition to Stainer & Bell's much-admired Light Organ series, Saints on a Spree is a stylish and not altogether reverent fantasy on several popular tunes associated with saintliness. Lively episodes in Latin-American and schmaltzy-waltz mood pull the carpet from under a solemn, hymn-like opening. Things get even more wild when Widor's Toccata from the Fifth Symphony and Brahms's Lullaby put in an appearance. With his usual masterly craftsmanship, Nigel Ogden, leading light-organist and host of long-running Radio 2 series The Organist Entertains, draws all these ideas into a grand and saintly peroration, which will sound as good whether played on an electronic instrument as on a church organ.

Price: £3.95

Samuel, Rhian: Gaslight Square II. Piano Duet Ref: Y223

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It's often a composer's experience that the idea planted in one piece may also germinate unexpectedly in another, which is how Gaslight Square II, a seven-minute scherzo for piano duet, grew from a brief study of boogie-woogie style in Gaslight Square1 for solo piano. So, in addition to this jazz-derived element that is developed and extended in the more ambitious piece, there's also a set of little canons shared between the players, and a wistful melody heard in the setting of haunting four-part counterpoint.

Players of Grades 7 or 8 standard and above will find Gaslight Square II not only hugely enjoyable to play but also a valuable study in duet textures that require their interaction in a variety of characteristic ways.

Duo Antithesis premiered Gaslight Square II at the Ruglander Wasserschlosse in Bavaria, Germany in July 2005, and the work has been broadcast on Bavarian Radio.

Price: £7.50

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Prelude on the hymn tune 'Rhosymedre' Ref: H465

Arranged for piano solo by Bryan Kelly
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In the 50th anniversary year of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, this highly attractive arrangement for piano of one of his most popular works will surely find its way into the repertoire of many pianists.

Treasured by organists, but no less admired in its orchestral arrangement often heard on Classic FM, this delightful prelude on the Welsh hymn tune known as Rhosymedre is a perfect union of the style of Bach and RVW. No less aptly known by the name of 'Lovely', the tune appears in the manner of a choral prelude, which Bryan Kelly has skilfully re-crafted for piano solo.

Of intermediate difficulty, and well within the range of players of Grade 5 standard or above, this new version of the piece also complements the arrangement for piano duet by Reginald Hadfield, already available in Stainer & Bell's Easy Festival Duet series.

Price: £3.75

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White, Robert: Six Organ Fantasias. Ref: K45

Reconstructed and edited by Paul Doe
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Organists thrilled by the rich cadences of sixteenth-century English music will find the Fantasias of Robert White essential repertoire - and invaluable and striking new material for performance on instruments with manuals only. Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1569 to his tragically early death from the plague in 1574, White himself was both a composer of choral music, including two notable sets of Lamentations, and a proficient organist and son of an organ builder.

Paul Doe has reconstructed and edited these fantasias from a surviving tablature, which is reproduced in the edition for scholarly comparison. Previously, it was assumed that the music was intended for performance by viols. On good internal evidence, however, it seems likely that a keyboard manuscript in staff notation, similar to the contemporary 'Mulliner Book', was the original source.

As keyboard works, the six fantasias are indeed fine examples of the motet style of writing for the instrument, and the length at which their material is developed, and its expressive weight, bear witness to White's stature as one of the four or five leading English composers from the period preceding that of William Byrd.

Price: £7.50

Wood, Haydn: Slumber Song Ref: H469

Arranged for Organ by J A Meale
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The celebrated composer of light music Haydn Wood died fifty years ago this year, and organists with a penchant for his smooth and distinctive melodies will delight in marking the occasion with Slumber Song. Arranged for the instrument by J. A Meale, it is also available for violin or cello and piano. With its polish and charm, this dreamy lullaby has a timeless appeal. Reissued in the prestigious Stainer & Bell Light Organ Music series, Slumber Song is suitable for a variety of instruments with pedals, and should present no difficulty to players of only modest technical ability.

Price: £3.25

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