Fortissimo Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 edition of the Faber Music newsletter: fortissimo!
The Spring 2018 edition of the Faber Music newsletter: fortissimo!
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Choral Scores from Faber Music<br />
HEAD<br />
OFFICE<br />
Faber Music Ltd<br />
Bloomsbury House<br />
74–77 Great Russell St<br />
London WC1B 3DA<br />
www.fabermusic.com<br />
Promotion Department:<br />
+44(0)207 908 5311/2<br />
promotion@fabermusic.com<br />
Sales & Hire<br />
FM Distribution<br />
Burnt Mill<br />
Elizabeth Way<br />
Harlow, Essex<br />
CM20 2HX<br />
Sales: +44(0)1279 82 89 82<br />
sales@fabermusic.com<br />
Hire: +44(0)1279 82 89 07/8<br />
hire@fabermusic.com<br />
USA &<br />
CANADA<br />
Hire<br />
Schott Music Corporation/<br />
European American Music<br />
Dist. Co.<br />
254 West 31st Street,<br />
15th Floor<br />
New York, NY 10001, USA<br />
Promotion: (212) 4616940<br />
Rental: (212) 4616940<br />
rental@eamdc.com<br />
Sales<br />
Alfred Music Publishing Co.<br />
Customer Service<br />
P.O. Box 10003<br />
Van Nuys<br />
CA 91410-0003, USA<br />
Tel: +1 (818) 891-5999<br />
sales@alfred.com<br />
Written & devised<br />
by Sam Wigglesworth with<br />
contributions from Tim Brooke<br />
and Rachel Topham<br />
Designed by Sam Wigglesworth<br />
COVER IMAGE: TANSY<br />
DAVIES © EDUARDUS LEE<br />
Jonathan Harvey: Forms of Emptiness<br />
In Jonathan Harvey’s imaginative and multi-layered Forms of<br />
Emptiness, a main a cappella choir (often divided and employing<br />
internal conductors) sings three poems by E. E. Cummings at<br />
different speeds and tonalities, referencing numerous sacred musics<br />
of the past from chant to Palestrina and even Messiaen. Against<br />
these vivid flashes of joy and colour is set the Buddhist Heart Sutra<br />
performed by a quartet of soloists in the original Sanskrit. At times<br />
a speaking voice simultaneously intones the same text in English.<br />
The resulting 13-minute work is thrillingly audacious, with joyous<br />
clouds of voices coalescing effortlessly into mysterious, hushed<br />
homophonies.<br />
Score | 0-571-54013-9 | £6.50<br />
Francisco Coll: Stella<br />
Francisco Coll’s imposing 5-minute motet Stella was written for ORA and Suzi<br />
Digby in 2016. Inspired by, and subtly drawing on a renaissance masterpiece –<br />
Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Ave Maris Stella – this arresting work for 8-part choir is<br />
ideal for disciplined ensembles looking for a new challenge. ‘Victoria has been<br />
always a model for me as a composer’, says Coll. ‘I especially admire his music’s<br />
textural clarity, the luminosity of its harmony, and the personal expression of its<br />
melodic lines.’<br />
‘Stella impressed with its emotional range, volatile dynamics and<br />
transitory grinding harmonies.’<br />
Score | 0-571-53652-2 | £3.99<br />
Jonathan Harvey: Plainsongs for Peace and Light<br />
Predominantly hushed and serene, Plainsongs for Peace and Light proved<br />
to be Jonathan Harvey’s final work. It sees Harvey re-examining the very<br />
fundamentals of his craft – superimposing lines of plainsong, relishing the<br />
simple clash of note against note and creating rich, otherworldly sonorities<br />
through an elaborate use of canon. Harvey was a composer who always<br />
embraced and sought-out the very latest in musical technologies but the<br />
simplicity of the a cappella choir became something of a constant to which<br />
he returned throughout his life. Writing in Tempo, Paul Conway noted this<br />
work’s ‘understated but extremely affecting, numinous power’. The piece is for<br />
mixed voices of SATB in 16 parts.<br />
The Times (Geoff Brown), 27 February <strong>2018</strong><br />
Full Score | 0-571-52214-9 | £4.50<br />
fabermusic.com
Change language