Stanley Appelbaum

Edited by Bruce Wood John Blow's pastoral opera Venus and Adonis, the second volume of the Companion Series, presents another key work from the decade of the 1680s, which was an important focus of tra...

Comprised of fifteen songs, each are mini-dramas. Something is happening in each one of them. Someone is travelling, working, or suffering. Their messages are universal to the human experience. They s...

Comprised of fifteen songs, each are mini-dramas. Something is happening in each one of them. Someone is travelling, working, or suffering. Their messages are universal to the human experience. They s...

Comprised of fifteen songs, each are mini-dramas. Something is happening in each one of them. Someone is travelling, working, or suffering. Their messages are universal to the human experience. They s...

In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell's most popular solo aria, the 'Lament' from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo...

In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell's most popular solo aria, the 'Lament' from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015). The music is very much a text painting, shift...

A soaring, joyful, unaccompanied motet in F major. (Keyboard reduction provided.) Notated on five staves with the soprano 1 and 2 on their own staves. However, all parts below that also divide very oc...