Edition HH Limited

Uneasy Vespers for choir, soloists and orchestra. Part I of this work was completed and performed in 1991 as part of a commission for Liverpool Philharmonic's 150th anniversary celebrations. Newly com...

Based on a couple of folk tunes which appear in their proper form once each, ... rest a moment here is freely written with good 'scrubbing' strings contrasted with beautiful quiet moments.

Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745) left only one chamber cantata scored for bass voice and continuo, but this work, Sudaste, alfin sudaste, is a masterpiece. Its poetic text takes the form of an imagined m...

The Exeter Book is a collection of many different writings and is generally acknowledged to be one of the great works of the English Benedictine revival of the tenth century. Among the other texts in...

Joseph Haydn's La Canterina ('The Singing Girl') was one of the composer's earliest stage works, written in 1766 soon after Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had promoted him to first Kapellmeister. The libre...

Klavierauszug von Sarah Jenner

Klavierauszug von Sarah Jenner

This atmospheric, sensitive piece for solo SATB (or small vocal ensemble) with optional string quartet was written by Timothy Raymond for the 2017 Lower Machen Festival. The contemporary harmonic lang...

The eighteenth century saw a great increase in secular music for solo voice and continuo set to texts in Venetian, then a recognized literary language rather than a mere Italian dialect. Most of these...

These previously unnoticed chamber duets for various pairs of voices and basso continuo are among the most original compositions from the pen of Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), the Venetian monk who wa...

These previously unnoticed chamber duets for various pairs of voices and basso continuo are among the most original compositions from the pen of Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), the Venetian monk who wa...

Henry Holcombe (1690-1756), born in Chester as the son of a silk weaver, became between 1720 and his death one of the leading English composers in small-scale forms, mainly vocal but also instrumental...

Articolato in due parti, questo ciclo di sette canzoni rappresenta una sorta di ritratto musicale di una poetessa americana - molto ammirata da Robert Frost - la cui fama di maestra del verso, e del s...

Henry Holcombe (1690-1756), nato a Chester come figlio di un tessitore di seta, divenne tra il 1720 e la sua morte uno dei principali compositori inglesi di forme su piccola scala, principalmente voca...

Tuffandosi nei generi musicali di tutto il mondo, Barbara Snow ha prodotto un'altra colorata ed eclettica raccolta di miniature per pianoforte, con influenze di blues, jump jive, ragtime, latino, disc...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the reputed father of the instrumental concerto; what is not widely known is that he also composed sacred vocal music. Discovered in 2001, when the Berlin Sing-Akademi...

Seyfried uses the same key as the Requiem, its distinctive orchestral sonority and quotes two passages from Mozart's work prompted by clauses in the liturgical text. The 'Libera me' was widely used in...

I dieci mottetti (Concerti sacri) per voce sola, violini e continuo che compongono la sua Op. 3 (1703) sono tra le sue composizioni più attraenti, al confine tra il bel canto seicentesco e le tendenze...

On the morning of Friday 8 July 1791, at the University of Oxford, Haydn was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. That same evening his Symphony No. 92 was performed at the Sheldonian Theat...

Haydn's Symphony No. 48 was long thought to have been written for, and performed in honour of the state visit of Empress Maria Theresia to Eszterháza in 1773. However, research by Robbins Landon has s...

Haydn's Symphony No. 96 acquired its nickname through an unfortunate misunderstanding, originating in a colourful story reported by a contemporary biographer of the composer. The circumstances concern...