Felipe Valdés Leal

This composition can be rung with 3 octaves: however, the optional notes use all of the 4th and/or 5th octaves.

For Levels 1-2.

Excellent book containing music of the masters for the 3-octave choir with little knowledge of music. Step by step introduction to note values using themes from the classics. Very useful.

A follow-up to 'Clapper Classics'. All the arrangements are rhythmically simple and they use numerous bells to keep ten to twelve ringers busy. A must for the beginning choir!

For Levels 1-2.

Six Classics arranged for Handbells & Keyboard.

An outgrowth of the Clapper Classic Series but includes music which can be used in religious or secular settings. Learn themes from great literature while learning basic bell techniques.

Commissioned by the Taksscs Quartet, Great Performers of Lincoln Center, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Colorado and the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis. Duration c...

This piece was jointly commissioned by the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Richmond, Virginia. It is dedicated to the Shanghai Quartet, who debuted it...

Based on a well-known Chinese folk song, a common influence in Sheng's works. In this setting, the viola should evoke the timbre, and tone quality of a female folk singer.

Three songs for violoncello and pipa (a Chinese lute) based on popular folk tunes the composer heard while growing up in China. 8 minutes.

Based on the instrumental interlude of the well-known Peking Opera, Farewell My Concubine. 10 minutes.

Three fantasy movements which draw on uniquely different inspirations. 15 minutes.

A haunting unaccompanied violin work based on folk music of the composer's native China.

An early Sheng work based on ci love poetry from the eastern Chinese city of Hang Zhou. Ci poetry was written with music in mind and intended to be sung.

China Dreams is a four-movement work written in 1995 for the Seattle Symphony. The work reflects Sheng's nostalgia for his homeland, expressed through use of Chinese folk melodies from different provi...

A new Voice/Piano arrangement of this wonderful opera, a tragic love story based on a famous Islamic legend. First performed in 1992 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.