Walter Wasservogel

An SSAA revoicing of the original SATB Frank Tichelli work, this handsome setting of Sara Teasdale's lyric poem looks to the stars for serenity and promise. Tasteful harmonic suspensions and rich chor...

Frank Tichelli is well known for both his choral music and repertoire for instrumental enssembles. Lux Aeterna, a new unaccompanied motet for mixed chorus, is dedicated to the memory of his grandfathe...

With words and music by the composer, Frank Ticheli gives us a very advanced a cappella setting whose dramatic flow moves through the themes of hope, peace, crisis, and finally to reconciliation. If y...

The brief three movements of this work are set to poems of Sara Teasdale. The movements can be performed separately or together. Set for unaccompanied mixed chorus, the composer says that the cycle 'u...

Originally scored for unaccompanied mixed voices (HPC7095) Frank Tichelli has revoiced this setting of a Sara Teasdale text for TTBB voices.Ÿ Memorial in nature, the original work is one of the most p...

In my setting of 'Shenandoah' I was inspired by the freedom and beauty of the folk melody and by the natural images evoked by the words, especially the image of a river. I was less concerned with the...

I wanted my setting of AMAZING GRACE to reflect the powerful simplicity of the words and melody - to be sincere, to be direct, to be honest - and not through the use of novel harmonies and clever tric...

I wanted my setting of AMAZING GRACE to reflect the powerful simplicity of the words and melody - to be sincere, to be direct, to be honest - and not through the use of novel harmonies and clever tric...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND At the time in Scottish history when 'Loch Lomond' was a new song, the United Kingdom (which united Scotland, England, and Wales) had already been formed. But the Highland Scots...

THE SHAKERS The Shakers were a religious sect who splintered from a Quaker community in the mid-1700's in Manchester, England. Known then derisively as 'Shaking Quakers' because of the passionate shak...

Improvisation for beginners and advanced players - 10 Compositions on standard patterns

The practice of scales is indispensable for obtaining technical ability; unfortunately, it is too often neglected, in default of a good system of fingering. To make scale-practice really profitable, i...

With the possible exception of Mozart, no other composer in the history of music ever surpassed Franz Schubert's genius for melodic writing. His 'lieder' (art songs for voice and piano) were composed...

With the possible exception of Mozart, no other composer in the history of music ever surpassed Franz Schubert's genius for melodic writing. His 'lieder' (art songs for voice and piano) were composed...

Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Auswahl an Klavierwerken mit Kinderstücken und mittelschwerer Sonaten. Reineckes Stil, der aus musikästhetischer Sicht dem Konservatismus zugeordnet wird, ist geprägt...