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The Windmills Of Your Mind - Michel Legrand - John Glenesk Mortimer
Les moulins de mon coeur / Wie sich Mhlen drehn im Wind
Estimated dispatch 10-14 working days
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£435.40Goldberg 2012 - Svein H. Giske
The first time I heard Bach's Goldberg Variations was in the movie Silence of the lambs, in the early 1990s. I noticed the beautiful background music in one of the scenes, but at that time I didn't know what it was. A few years later, when I was studiying at the Grieg Academy, I got to know the entire piece. For me, this is a piece of music which I can listen to countless times. I think it sounds as fresh today as it did more than 15 years ago and it never ceases to inspire me. Both Bach's composition and Glenn Gould's famous 1955 recording (which was the first one I heard) still makes a great impression on me. Before Gould recorded it at age 22, it wasn't a highly ranked piece amongst pianists and Bach was by many viewed as a bit old-fashioned. The young Canadian turned all this around. He managed to portray Bach in a reformed way, producing fine nuances in phrasing and making the many layers in Bach's music more transparent than anyone before him. Thus he plunged both himself and Bach (back) onto the international music scene. When The Norwegian Band Federation (NMF) asked me to write the test piece for NM in 2012, it was only natural for me to use the Goldberg Variations as a starting point and inspiration for my work. Since I was a teenager at NMF's summer courses in the mid eighties I've always listened to many different styles of music. Growing up in Sunnmre with the Brazz Brothers as teachers and mentors, jazz-, pop/rock- and folk music were early on a natural part of my musical background. I also have my classical education from the Grieg Academy on trumpet. As the title of my piece implies, I've wanted to bring Bach to the present and put his music into various modern musical landscapes. I think you can bring about a special kind of energy when music from different genres are mixed and I've tried to do this by mixing Bach with artists and musical styles from the present. In Goldberg 2012, the music is often constructed by several layers, which in a way are living parallel musical lives. They are seemingly moving or floating freely, almost unaware of each other, but bound together by the same basic pulse. The rythms, however, are often notated on a different rythmic subdivision level than the usual 8th- or 16th note levels. By doing this, I hope to achieve transparent sounds that rythmically are perceived as more free and detached from each other. In large sections of the piece, pop/jazz is fusioned with elements from Bach. I guess you could have this little scene as a synopsis for the piece: picture a group of musicians meeting: some are classical performers, some are jazz. They start to improvise together, each in their own voice or musical dialect and I'm sort of in the middle, trying to write down what they are playing. This is what I feel much of Goldberg 2012 is about. The foundation of the piece, in addition to Bach and references from pop/jazz music, lies also in my own material. This material, basically two chords, is heard in it's purest form in the 1st movement. I use these chords to create scales, new chords and different motifs which contribute to blend together the different moods of the piece. It has not been my intention to copy Bach's form (theme and 30 variations), but rather to use the bits and pieces that I like the most as an inspiration for my own variations. The 1st movement, Aria 2, is for my 3rd son, Olav, who was born on the 21st of April 2011, and the 5th movement, From long ago, is dedicated to the memory of my father, Svein J. Giske, who passed away on the 6th of June 2011. -Svein H. Giske, January 2012-
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£84.99Call of the Musicians - Thomas Doss
The "Woodstock der Blasmusik" (Woodstock for Wind Music) is a four-day open air festival that has taken place annually over the last weekend in June in the Upper Austrian community of Ort im Innkreis since 2011. All sorts of bands and ensembles gather to play both traditional and modern wind music. Since its inception, this legendary festival has developed into a great success story. In 2019, Thomas Doss was commissioned to compose this official "Woodstock hymn".
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99Selections from SING
The upbeat animated film Sing features an entertaining story about a talent show and plenty of great music.Here is an appealing medley for band that includes a new song (Faith) by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande, along with the classic pop hits Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen), I'm Still Standing (Elton John) and Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£84.50Selections from H.M.S Pianofore - Arthur Sullivan
A sparkling medley from one of the best-known of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas has been deftly prepared by the always skillful Andrew Balent. The medley includes five selections from the original work: We Sail the Ocean Blue, I'm Called Little Buttercup (a trumpet solo), I Am the Monarch of the Sea, When I Was a Lad and He Is an Englishman.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99Highlights from Dreamgirls - Henry Krieger
Even before the blockbuster movie of 2006, this musical was a hit on Broadway. Featuring a driving pulse and memorable tunes, Jay's energetic arrangement includes Dreamgirls, And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going and Move (You're Stepping on My Heart).
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£104.99South Pacific - Oscar Hammerstein II
Hal Leonard is proud to offer this unique edition for band of one of Broadway's most treasured shows. Carefully adapted from Robert Russell Bennett's orchestral version, this is a must for all mature bands' libraries. Includes: Bali Ha'i, Bloody Mary, A Cock-Eyed Optimist, Dite-Moi (Tell Me Why), Happy Talk, Honey Bun, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening, There Is Nothin' Like a Dame, This Nearly Was Mine, A Wonderful Guy, Younger Than Springtime.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£101.20The Queen of the Night - N. Ashford/V. Simpson
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (Newark, 9 August 1963 - Beverly Hills, 11 February 2012) was an American singer, model and actress. According to Guiness World Records, Houston is the singer with the most awards of all time and is one of the best-selling artists ever with 220 million records sold worldwide. In this medley: I'm Every Woman, How will I Know and I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£91.99The Sun Will Rise Again - Philip Sparke
The composer writes:"On March 11th 2011 a massive 9.0- magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of north-eastern Japan.I'm writing these programme notes barely a week later and the death toll caused by the quake and resulting tsunami already exceeds 6000, with thousands of people still unaccounted for. I have many friends associated with many bands throughout Japan and one of these, Yutaka Nishida, suggested I write a piece to raise money to help those affected by the disaster. I was immediately attracted by the idea and have arranged Cantilena (a brass band piece recently commissioned by the Grenland International Brass Festival, Norway) for wind band, giving it a new title tohonour my friends in the Land of the Rising Sun.I will be donating royalties from this piece to the Japanese Red Cross Society Emergency Relief Fund and am delighted to say that my distributors, De Haske, who will generously also donate all net profits from sales of this piece, have pledged a substantial advance payment to the Red Cross so that what little help this project generates can be immediate.It is my sincere wish that this 'Band Aid' project will allow wind bands around the world support the people of Japan, where bands are a way of life for many, in this difficult time".Philip Sparke
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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