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£35.00Oubliette - Lucy Pankhurst
Lucy Pankhurst has created a highly immersive solo for Tuba/Eb Bass with brass band accompaniment, aiming and succeeding in showing the lyrical and technical diversity of the tuba, demanding virtuoso brilliance and clarity in performance.Dedicated to tuba player Edd Leech, Oubliette raises the bar for tuba repertoire.Set includes score, brass band parts and solo parts for Eb Bass (TC) and Tuba (BC). Solo with piano accompaniment available separately.Programme notes from the composer, Lucy Pankhurst:From the French word oublier, meaning 'to forget', an oubliette was a form of dungeon used in the 14th century. A small, windowless room where someone is locked away to be forgotten and left to go mad.I initially chose this title for the piece as the Tuba is often forgotten as a solo instrument, when its versatility in performance should be celebrated. Oubliette showsThe work begins with desolate and sparse accompaniment with lamenting solo lines. The soloist has already been cast into the oubliette at this point and is beginning to wake from a somnolent state. Reality is blurred through the darkness of the chamber - the only entrance is a hatch in the ceiling, far out of reach.Memories are confused by countless hours of solitude - hallucinations and paranoia tainting reality. Gradually, the soloist remembers images from the past and gains confidence and strength. Long forgotten by the captors, or presumed dead in the chamber, the entrance hatch suddenly opens to allow another prisoner inside. The soloist seizes the opportunity for escape and a short battle ensues. Sword and fist fighting, perilous leaps over the entrances to more dungeons and fierce battle cries are futile, as the soloist suddenly realises they are alone in the oubliette once more and the skirmish was nothing but another dream.The piece concludes with unaccompanied soloist in the low register, sinking deeper into the shadows of the windowless prison; are they accepting their fate, or merely lying in wait for another chance of escape, if one will ever come . . .
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£40.00Reflections of Freedom - Andrew Duncan
Reflections of Freedom depicts the emotions and feelings of the many migrant farmers who left 19th Century Scotland to set up home and begin a new life in the 'New World'. In particular, the joys experienced on the reaping of their first harvest.Use is made of the American folk tune, Bringing in the Sheaves. Written for the US Army Brass Band in Washington DC and premiered by them in 1997.'Reflections of Freedom' was the title track on the Whitburn Band CD of the same name, recorded in 24.
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£30.00Sortie in E Flat - Louis Lefebure-Wely
Louis James Alfred Lefebure-Wely is historically associated with the development of French organ music, as well as with organ technique. As a composer he was instrumental in the evolution of the French symphonic organ style and his works include many pieces for church use, and lighter fare like marches and sorties.It is probably in the latter genre that Lefebure-Wely scored his most enduring successes on the organ, with pieces like the sorties in B flat and E flat.Sue Hopkins has artfully captured the magic of Lefebure-Wely's writing and produced this great new piece which offers a perfect complement to your concert programme.
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£29.95Ave Maria - Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod - Ray Farr
There have been several settings of this Roman Catholic prayer to music, with the Bach/Gounod version being the most famous. It consists of the first prelude of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier plus a melody that Gounod wrote over this. Gounod...
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£34.95Be My Love - Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn - Ray Farr
Be My Love was written for the film The Toast of New Orleans in 1950 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same year. The story revolves around a rough-and-tumble fisherman from the Louisiana Bayous, who is gifted...
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£84.95Concerto for Tenor Horn - Lucy Pankhurst
I wrote this tenor horn concerto for Owen Farr in 2002, whilst we were both studying at the RNCM in Manchester. I had never heard a brass player like Owen before and was stunned by his technical brilliance as well...
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£49.95Extracts from Symphony No. 3 - Aram Khachaturian - Ray Farr
Aram Ilich Khachaturian (1903 - 1978) started his career playing the tuba, before turning to the 'cello and later to composition. Inspired by Miaskowsky and Tchaikovsky, he produced music of a nationalist flavour which earned him the coveted Stalin Prize...
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£29.95Finale from Cello Concerto No. 1 - Joseph Haydn - Owen Farr
Originally composed somewhere between 1761 and 1765 for Haydn's long-time friend and cellist Joseph Weigl, Cello Concerto no. 1 in C was presumed lost until 1961, when a copy of the manuscript was discovered in the Prague National Museum. This...
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£49.95Hjalar-Ljod Overture - Eivind Groven - Ray Farr
Eivind Groven (1901 - 1977) was a Norwegian composer with a special interest in folk music. The theme of this composition is based on signature tunes sung by shepherds in the vast mountain areas in Telemark, Norway. The shepherds would...
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£29.95Holcombe Hill - Dan Price
A traditional concert march in league with the great marches composed by Rimmer, Alford and Allen. The name is taken from an area in Lancashire just north of Bury, Greater Manchester that is not far from the composer's home.
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