Edwin Lemare: Toccata Di Concerto For Organ

Lemare’s compositions are uneven in quality, but the best are still active in the repertoire. The Toccata di Concerto is certainly full of fireworks and has the capacity to show the abilities of a great Organ. The upper parts have plenty of French toccata style, but the theme in the pedals gives the piece substance, as does the romantic, chromatic interlude in the middle of the work.Organ virtuoso and composer Edwin Lemare was the world’s highest-paid Organist at the height of his career in the early 1900’s, drawing bravos from ctritics and the crowds who queued around the block to hear this most famous of Organists. After having served as a church Organist for a relatively short period, he began the life of a travelling recitalist, beginning with a hundred-recital tour of the USA and Canada in 1900, a career that continued until the stock market crash of 1929. Lemare was also virtuosic in his ability to transcribe great Orchestral works for the Organ, allowing audiences in those less urban times to hear works played live that they might have heard no other way.

Claudio Monteverdi: L' Incoronazione Di Poppea

The Coronation Of Poppea. An opera in a prologue and three acts. Text by G.F. Busenello, music attributed to Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Sacrati. Edited by Alan Curtis and English singing version by Arthur Jacobs.

Swayne: Le Nozze Di Cherubino (Libretto)

Joby Talbot: Path Of Miracles (Vocal Score)

A magisterial sixty-minute work, marking stages of St James' pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostela.

Lasso: O La, O Che Buon Eco (Hark, Hark The Echo Falling)

Villanella for eight voices SSAATTBB. English words by W.G.Rothery, composed by Orlando Di Lasso. Includes piano part for practice.

Giovanni Bononcini: Stabat Mater (Vocal Score)

Bononcini wrote many cantatas, but this is his sole setting of the Stabat Mater. This Baroque mass manifests a flavour of Viennese traditions as well as native Italian melodic strengths.Composer and cellist Antonio Bononcini was the younger brother of Giovanni Bononcini, known as a rival of Handel in London. At one time he was Kapellmeister to the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, but spent most of his life in Italy, particularly Modena where he was maestro di cappella.

Orlando Lassus: Stabat Mater (Vocal Score)

Orlando Lassus , also known as Orlando Di Lasso , (c. 1530 - 1594) was a Flemish Renaissance composer whose work is considered second only to that of Palestrina and Victoria. He was a master of both Sacred and Secular compositions, creating over 2000 musical works. Many of these, including his setting of the Stabat Mater , have been researched and edited by Clive Wearing . Clive Wearing (b. 1938) is a British musician, conductor and musicologist. He sang as a Lay Clerk at Westminster Cathedral for many years, and founded several choirs which have helped to bring about a new interest and appreciation of the works of many Renaissance composers.