Dear all
In the Downloads section of the website you will find two new additions to your burgeoning photocopy collection with music by Handel and Rutter.
Handel’s Zadok The Priest will be familiar to many of you no doubt, a pretty straightforward shout with lots of homophonic singing – although of course Sheen Gate continues to welcome and embrace all textural diversity.
The other files contain two of Rutter’s Five Birthday Madrigals, with Rutter at his most harmonically ingenious paying jazz-inspired tributes to the legendary pianist George Shearing whose 75th birthday these were written to commemorate. Each is a setting of a folk tune but with contemporary twists and needing a little swinging of those hips to get into the jazz rhythms. Certainly more tricky but a lot of fun – guaranteed earworms – and maybe worth a listen on YouTube.
Robert, on behalf of Dave and the Repertoire group