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RECENT PUBLICATIONS NEW! FESTIVAL FANFARE (for organ) Carl Fisher has now released the copyright of the organ work Festival Fanfare. In future copies are available from The Leighton Trust, address below. The 5 Shakespeare Songs for baritone/piano have now been type-set and are available from the Leighton Trust. The Songs have already been widely performed, in Britain, Europe and the United States. Copies are provided - a donation to the Leighton Trust is appreciated. Also recently type-set is LONDON TOWN for SATB with soprano and tenor solo. This work, with words by John Masefield, is the only secular part song that Leighton wrote. It was commissioned by the City of London Choir, and has most recently been performed in London by Commodio, conducted by Matthew Berry. Copies are available gratis for perusal, and are for sale at £3.50. The Kenneth Leighton Trust has recently published Leighton last composition, the Five Preludes for Piano. Conceived as part of a set of 24 Preludes, these 5 were the only ones completed before Leighton's death in 1988. The first performance of the 5 Preludes was given by Stephen Coombs at the Pianoworks Festival in 1999. Performances have also been given in the United States by Christopher Walters, Andover, Mass. The Preludes, price £7 ($12) are available from: The Leighton Trust
KENNETH LEIGHTON - RECENT CD RELEASES CHAMBER String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, 7 Variations for String Quartet Edinburgh Quartet, Leader Suzanne Stanzeleit Meridian CDE 84460 Piano Trio, Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet Meridian CDE 84465 Edinburgh Quartet with Robert Markham Piano Trio, Metamorphosis (violin/piano) Partita (cello/piano) Elegy (cello/piano) Andrew Fuller, Lorraine McAslan, Michael Dussek Dutton CDLX 7118
Animal Heaven Legrand Ensemble (John Turner) Metier CD92036 Fantasy on a Chorale (organ/violin) Rupert and Rachael Gough Guild GMCD 7191
CHORAL Crucifixus Pro Nobis John Mark Ainslie/Schola Cantorum of Oxford Manor MRLO 191 Lully lulla Shepherd/Schola Cantorum of Oxford Manor MRLO 191
Second Evening Service Solus ad Victimam Jordan/Queens’ College Chapel Choir, Cambridge Guild GMCD 715 Hymn to Matter Bell/RSNO/National Children’s Youth Choir of Scotland NyCoS CD 1 *
PIANO The Complete solo piano works 3CDs Angela Brownridge Delphian DCD34301-3 Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Five Studies Opus 22, Four Romantic Pieces, Pieces for Angela, Sonatina No. 2 Margaret Fingerhut Chandos 98 6 Study-Variations Opus 56 Stephen Hough Hyperion CDA 67267 ORCHESTRAL Oboe Concerto Crowther/Cuckston/English Northern Philharmonia` ASV 2130
ORGAN Martyrs Timothy and Nancy LeRoi Nickel Arsis CD 104* Sylvie Poirier/Philip Crozier SP 2 8222 * Prelude, Scherzo and Passacaglia Michael Harris Priory 700 (The 12 Organs of Edinburgh)
Maecenas Music now have 3 works by Leighton available. The latest of these is the Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra. This early work was never performed at the time it was written and received its Premiere at the 3 Choirs Festival, Hereford on August 24, 2000. The soloist was the winner of the 1999 Isle of Wight Oboe Competition, Virginia Shaw, who is with the Halle Orchestra. The performance was conducted by Paul Daniel, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Also available from Maecenas are: Improvisation - De Profundis Leighton's only large scale work for solo harpsichord Serenade for Flute/piano Op. 1 9a For information or purchase of any of the above please contact: Maecenas Music Tel: 0208 660 4766 In the USA: Masters Music Publishers Tel:(001) 561 241 6149 |