Winter Lamb, by Carl Witt, is a moving tour-de-force. Based on a poem by the composer, and combining choir, soloists, piano, brass quintet, and string quintet, this piece was fondly dedicated to the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, Jim Turner, Director. Listen to a rendition created in Sibelius(tm) and read along with the score on our web page.
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An evocative piece about personal loss, Jonathan Craft's Dreams, Yearning
for horn and piano grew out of tragedy and hope. You may hear a sound clip on the web page. John Dickson's trio in remembrance of the Holocaust, From Darkness, Hope reflects the depth of emotion that we all still feel when confronted with the enormity of the Holocaust tragedy, reflected primarily in the vocal nature of the instrumental lines. Never descending completely into despair, in the end there is a quietness and peace.
Our web page includes a recording of the piece featuring violin, violoncello, and piano. Viola may substitute for the violin, and horn may substitute for the cello. Five Traditional German Christmas Songs, arranged for two horns in F and three alphorns in F, by Thomas Jöstlein, includes
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