repertoire with Pergolesi/Haydn

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repertoire with Pergolesi/Haydn

Date: February 8, 2011

by John Petzet

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I am planning a concert with my junior college choir of 20. I would like to do the Pergolesi Magnificat, the Haydn Little Organ Mass, and I am looking for an additional work, preferably a Romantic or 20th-21st century work that involves strings and maybe a few winds or trumpets. Any ideas?

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Steven Edwards on February 9, 2011 11:37am

Halsey Stevens Magnificat for chorus, trumpet, and strings. Mark Foster.

Holst Short Festival Te Deum chorus, orchestra (but I think can be done with strings, and piano?) Stainer or http://imslp.org/wiki/Short_Festival_Te_Deum_(Holst,_Gustav)

Each is 6-8' -- you could do both!

Steven Edwards

Symphony Chorus of New Orleans

Delgado Community College

John Biggs on February 10, 2011 7:27am

Dear John:

My "NUAGES" for SATB w/string qt or string orch would work. Here's the Consort Press catalog entry:

CP 12 NUAGES “Clouds” 5.5min. Score: $1.25, set of parts: $5.00

Let me know if you'd like to see a score and/or hear the piece.

John Biggs

John Petzet on February 11, 2011 3:18am

John,

I would love to hear your piece and see a score. Thanks.

Douglas Townsend on February 18, 2011 7:25pm

Hi John,

Neukomm's MASS IN C for two treble voices (edited by me and also arranged by me for string orchestra), published by Boosey & Hawkes. This work is about 20 minutes long, lovely and lyrical, and is not very difficult for either the chorus or the orchestra.

Cordially,

Douglas Townsend, Composer and Musicologist

www.classicalmatters.com/douglas_t.htm

Lisa Paglin on July 22, 2011 5:52pm

Sorry, one question; isn't the Pergolesi magnificat actually by Francesco Durante, his teacher? Or is there more than one??

Thanks.

Robert Ross on July 24, 2011 10:03am

The so-called Pergolesi Mag is, in fact, by his teacher, Francesco Durante. There's a contrafactum Magnificat available from Barenreiter that was assembled by Malcom Bruno out of assorted fragments and incomplete works.

As for a companion piece: Michael Hurd's *Music's Praise* for chorus & strings (Novello)...it may well be a US premiere if you do it!

Hope this helps,

Robert A.M. Ross

info(a)robertamross.com

www.robertamross.com

Jason Thoms on July 23, 2011 5:41pm

Not a long work, but Cantique de Jean Racine by Faure is lovely. I orchestrated it for strings and horn a number of years ago. Also the Ave Verum Corpus of Mozart is wonderful with the strings or the Kyrie and Gloria from Mass in G by Schubert is also great with strings. I also recently completed a 35 minute setting of the libretto from Handel's Messiah from the beginning to Glory to God. It is written for Strings, winds and trumpets. The solos could be sung by talented student singers.

Jason Thoms

jason_thoms(a)yahoo.com