Rental Catalogue 2020
T66 Rental Catalogue 2020 Including the editions of AUGENER � GALLIARD � WEEKES� JOSEPH WILLIAMS Introduction Offering the very best of three centuries of British music, Stainer & Bell’s rental catalogue is an essential source of performance material for choirs, orchestras and chamber ensembles. Between its covers there is a plethora of enduring masterpieces: A Sea Symphony, A London Symphony, the Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and by Gustav Holst The Hymn of Jesus and Choral Hymns from the ‘Rig Veda’. Here also are two classics of English pastoral, Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Summer Night on the River, plus a wealth of music by twentieth-century composers including Bainton, Bantock, Bridge, Butterworth, Darke, Dunhill, Elgar, Ireland, Jacob, Moeran, Rootham, Rubbra and Wishart, recognised for their achievement in building on the foundations laid by the pioneers of the English Musical Renaissance. Providing as it were the overarching ribs and vaulting of the collection, the English cathedral tradition in its historical dimension is strongly present in repertoire by Blow, Boyce, Burgon, Croft, Draghi, Greene, Purcell and Samuel Sebastian Wesley. Significant recent additions include Thomas Arne’s seminal oratorio Judith, George Dyson’s A Choral Symphony and his dramatic cantata St Paul’s Voyage to Melita, and Vaughan Williams’s early and previously unpublished A Cambridge Mass and The Garden of Proserpine. Meanwhile, new choral and instrumental pieces by contemporary composers Ronald Corp, Morgan Hayes, Chris Hazell, Bryan Kelly, James McCarthy and Rhian Samuel vigorously promote a living continuity with the past.
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