User 561932992 · Solemn Prelude – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; arr. by Paul Noble Solemn Prelude requires a more special description than space will allow. It has been my privilege to receive from the Three Choirs Festival in the U.K. the opportunity to produce this arrangement for Concert/Wind Band from a long-lost piece of music. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor […]
Paul Noble · ADAGIO SERIOSO – David Lyon; arr. by Paul Noble Program notes provided by the composer: Composed in 1972, this is unusually solemn for a piece of ostensibly ‘light’ orchestral music, having been directly inspired by Bruckner’s 7th Symphony. It’s simple structure consists of a single melody that slowly unwinds through various keys
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Quia fecit mihi magna, (For he [that is mighty] hath done to me great things), is the third of seven movements comprising John Rutter’s setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat, completed in 1990. Rutter was inspired by “jubilant celebrations of Mary in Hispanic cultures” and conceived the work as a “bright Latin-flavoured fiesta”. In countries
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Masters in This Hall (alternative title: “Nowell, Sing We Clear”) is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. It is said to have a sixteenth-century feel, harking back to a simpler society, in line with Morris’s own romanticism. It also
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