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Alan Bullard: Cyprus Dances (for Piano Duet)
Alan Bullard: Cyprus Dances
for Piano Duet (one piano, four hands)
These four movements, by turns lively, expressive, calming, and rhythmic, are loosely based on a number of traditional folk songs and dances from Cyprus.
1. Round Dance
2. Lament
3. Lullaby
4. Rondo
Performed live by Ian Ray and Alan Bullard at a celebratory concert.
Sheet Music published by
COLNE EDITION CE86
www.colneedition.co.uk
Cyprus Dances are also available in an arrangement for string orchestra.
www.alanbullard.co.uk
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Alan Bullard: Three Picasso Portraits for Saxophone Quartet
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Three Picasso Portraits were commissioned by the Saxology Saxophone Quartet and were first performed St Martin's in the Fields, London, in June 1992. These colourful portraits are loosely inspired, both in terms of mood and technique, by three Picasso paintings. The clear-cut jazz rhythms of Harlequin give way to the intense inner tragedy of Weeping Woman, which is followed by The Three Dancers...
Alan Bullard: Rise up my love (Scrolling Score)
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Rise up my love is a setting of a few verses from the Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs) in the Old Testament of the Bible. The words paint a beautiful picture of love and of the natural world, and this setting is clothed in rich and colourful harmony. It was commissioned by Avril Danczak for the Philharmonic Choir of Manchester, in memory of her parents and dedicated to three younger family me...
Alan Bullard: Little Suite (Clarinet Choir) scrolling score
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This is the recording of the Clarinet Choir version - for other versions see below. These five short movements are by turns light-hearted and delicately expressive, forming an enjoyable and symmetrical suite. 1. Entrance 2. Sarabande 3. Scherzo 4. Air 5. Exit Little Suite may be played by three solo B flat clarinets. Optional extra parts for E flat Clarinet and Bass Clarinet are provided (doubl...
Alan Bullard: Little Suite for Clarinet Trio (3 Bb Clarinets) scrolling score
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This is the recording of the Clarinet Trio version - for other versions see below. These five short movements are by turns light-hearted and delicately expressive, forming an enjoyable and symmetrical suite. 1. Entrance 2. Sarabande 3. Scherzo 4. Air 5. Exit Little Suite may be played by three solo B flat clarinets. Optional extra parts for E flat Clarinet and Bass Clarinet are provided (doubli...
Alan Bullard: Little Suite (Flute Choir) Scrolling Score
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These five short movements are by turns light-hearted and delicately expressive, forming an enjoyable and symmetrical suite. 1. Entrance 2. Sarabande 3. Scherzo 4. Air 5. Exit Little Suite may be played by Flute Choir (as here) or by three solo flutes (see separate video). The Flute Choir version is scored for Piccolo (optional), Flutes 1 and 2, Flute 3/Alto Flute, and Bass Flute (optional): th...
Alan Bullard: Little Suite (for Flute Trio) - Digital Scrolling Score
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These five short movements are by turns light-hearted and delicately expressive, forming an enjoyable and symmetrical suite. 1. Entrance 2. Sarabande 3. Scherzo 4. Air 5. Exit Little Suite may be played by three solo flutes (an alternative for Alto Flute is provided for Flute 3) or by a Flute Choir (see separate video) Little Suite was originally written for two oboes and cor anglais, and has b...
Alan Bullard: Little Suite (2 Oboes and Cor Anglais) scrolling score
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These five short movements, by turns light-hearted and delicately expressive, have been performed many times since their first performance in 1991. The movements are as follows, the last being (almost) a repeat of the first. 1. Entrance 2. Sarabande 3. Scherzo 4. Air 5. Exit This performance, recorded live in concert, was by the Morganwg Trio: Nick Williams and Hannah Scott (oboes) and Amanda B...
Alan Bullard: My Song (This Song of Mine) SATB unaccompanied (scrolling score - live performance)
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My Song (This song of mine) for SATB choir unaccompanied performed live in concert by Felicitas, director Simon Winters (www.felicitas.org.uk) (first performance of this version) My Song is a colourful setting of the beautifully spiritual poem by the Bengali poet, philosopher and thinker Rabindranath Tagore. Beginning ‘This song of mine will wind its music around you, my child, like the fond ar...
To God be the Glory (Crosby/Doane) arranged by Alan Bullard
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To God be the Glory is an ever-popular hymn given here an easy arrangement for SATB and organ or piano. It can be sung as a choir item or as backing to a congregation as the traditional tune is unchanged. Colne Edition Prayer and Praise for Choirs is a series of arrangements of popular hymns and worship songs suitable as anthems for small church choirs. They are arranged by Alan Bullard, the ed...
Alan Bullard: Three Blues for Alto Saxophone and Piano (Scrolling Score)
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These blues-inspired sketches were written for three players and teachers who all worked alongside Alan Bullard at the School of Music at Colchester Institute at the time, as well as teaching at various London music colleges and performing around the world. Each movement depicts one aspect of the character of the dedicatee - the laid-back Stuart Allen, the reflective Charles Hine, and the livel...
Alan Bullard: Three Blues for clarinet and piano (Scrolling Score)
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Three Blues for Clarinet and Piano (1995) These blues-like sketches were written for three clarinet performers and teachers who all worked alongside Alan Bullard at Colchester Institute at the time, as well as teaching at various London music colleges and performing around the world. Each movement depicts one aspect of the character of the dedicatee - the laid-back Stuart Allen, the reflective ...
Alan Bullard: Six Dances for Small Orchestra (Scrolling Score)
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These light-hearted dances for small orchestra comprise six movements: Three-quarter time Serenade Mambo Valse Française Smooth and Spanish Celebration! They are an orchestral arrangement of Alan Bullard's piano duets, 'Six Dances for Four Hands' (which were themselves originally published as volume 3 of the series 'I Love Piano Duets'). This performance is digitally produced using NotePerforme...
Alan Bullard (arranger) Patapan (trad. Burgundian Carol) Digital Scrolling Score
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Patapan is a traditional Burgundian Christmas Carol arranged by Alan Bullard for choir in three parts (S.A.Bar.) and piano This lively carol welcomes Jesus’ birth with instruments and voices, with an arrangement that hints at the sound of the fife and the drum, and provides a not-too-challenging tongue-twister in the refrain! It may be sung by a three-part SABar choir, but as there are occasion...
Alan Bullard: Canticle of Freedom (A Song for Peace) - scrolling score
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Alan Bullard's Canticle of Freedom (A Song for Peace), written in 1999, is a prayer for a new millennium of freedom and peace, and each of the four movements takes as its starting point one of the verses from the nineteenth-century Christmas hymn 'It came upon the midnight clear'. It is scored for mixed choir, children's or youth choir, soprano and baritone soloists and a moderate size orchestr...
Alan Bullard: Come, O Creator Spirit (Scrolling Score)
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Alan Bullard: Come, O Creator Spirit (Scrolling Score)
Alan Bullard: We Thank You Lord (scrolling score)
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Alan Bullard: We Thank You Lord (scrolling score)
Alan Bullard: A Colchester Suite (complete, with visuals)
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Alan Bullard: A Colchester Suite (complete, with visuals)
Alan Bullard: Saturday Market (A Colchester Suite, no. 1)
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Alan Bullard: Saturday Market (A Colchester Suite, no. 1)
Alan Bullard: Hilly Fields ('A Colchester Suite', 2nd movement)
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Alan Bullard: Hilly Fields ('A Colchester Suite', 2nd movement)
Alan Bullard: The Hythe (A Colchester Suite, no. 3)
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Alan Bullard: The Hythe (A Colchester Suite, no. 3)
Alan Bullard: Old King Cole (A Colchester Suite no. 4)
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Alan Bullard: Old King Cole (A Colchester Suite no. 4)
Alan Bullard: Nocturne no.4 - Weeping (piano solo)
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Alan Bullard: Nocturne no.4 - Weeping (piano solo)
Alan Bullard: Nocturne no. 3 - Falling (piano solo)
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Alan Bullard: Nocturne no. 3 - Falling (piano solo)
Alan Bullard: Nocturne no.2 - Searching (Piano Solo)
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Alan Bullard: Nocturne no.2 - Searching (Piano Solo)
Alan Bullard: String Quartet no. 2 (Scrolling Score)
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Alan Bullard: String Quartet no. 2 (Scrolling Score)
Alan Bullard: Nocturne 1 - Moonlight (Piano solo)
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Alan Bullard: Nocturne 1 - Moonlight (Piano solo)
Alan Bullard introduces his anthem 'He will speak peace'
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Alan Bullard introduces his anthem 'He will speak peace'
Ferry 'cross the Mersey (Gerry Marsden) The Janet and Alan Bullard Piano Series
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Ferry 'cross the Mersey (Gerry Marsden) The Janet and Alan Bullard Piano Series
Anyone who had a heart (Burt Bacharach and Hal David) - The Janet and Alan Bullard Piano Series
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Anyone who had a heart (Burt Bacharach and Hal David) - The Janet and Alan Bullard Piano Series

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @bjm767
    @bjm767 Місяць тому

    Hi Mr. Bullard. The notes you played in M7 differ from those in the book. You played CEGBA. While the book says CEGA. Is this a publishing typo or should we play as written. Am asking because I have ABRSM exam students who are also listening to your recording and I wanted to explain the discrepancy. (For the record, C7 to A sounds prettier IMHO)

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic Місяць тому

      My error - it should be as in the book.

    • @bjm767
      @bjm767 Місяць тому

      @@bullardmusic OK - Great! Thanks so much for clarifying and for the quick reply.

  • @franciscocalvo1980
    @franciscocalvo1980 5 місяців тому

    Thanks. Maybe it's difficult to do it, but with camera a little bit higher, video would show the edge of the keys.

  • @damircid6666
    @damircid6666 6 місяців тому

    Precioso. Debiste poner la partitura. Gracias!!!

  • @theword1234
    @theword1234 Рік тому

    I really enjoyed your performance. Thank you!

  • @user-qm8im8qm7n
    @user-qm8im8qm7n Рік тому

    Lovely

  • @Radiator223
    @Radiator223 Рік тому

    Well done!

  • @AnotherAnonymousMan
    @AnotherAnonymousMan Рік тому

    Wow! I really love the sound of this. I'm approaching the end of Pianoworks book 1 and after hearing some of these pieces, I'm looking forward to book 2. I just hope the learning curve isn't too steep!

  • @tonyd5249
    @tonyd5249 2 роки тому

    Is this Janie playing?

  • @iChoseRapture
    @iChoseRapture 2 роки тому

    learning this now very nicely played, wish more pieces from this book were on yt

  • @roryduffy5013
    @roryduffy5013 2 роки тому

    💚

  • @FullmoonFlute
    @FullmoonFlute 2 роки тому

    So needed message in these days and always. Every of us counts.

  • @AnotherAnonymousMan
    @AnotherAnonymousMan 2 роки тому

    As an adult beginner making my way through Pianoworks 1, this piece took me almost two weeks to fully learn properly. Very much a threshold piece for learning hand movement.

  • @michaelkemp1294
    @michaelkemp1294 2 роки тому

    This is a beautiful gentle verse anthem setting of a poem for worldwide reconciliation. It will surely assist in promoting international brotherhood.

  • @hortensiablanc4352
    @hortensiablanc4352 2 роки тому

    Beautiful valse. Bravo

  • @zoereed7712
    @zoereed7712 2 роки тому

    Thank you for adding this piece, sounds brilliant, could you play travelling blues, from same book, would be great to hear the timing, I’m trying to learn through this book, and great to hear.

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 2 роки тому

      Hello Zoe, and thank you for your comments! There is a recording of Travelling Blues on the CD that comes with the book - but I will put one up on UA-cam as well in the next few days.

  • @Charlienepien
    @Charlienepien 2 роки тому

    More than twenty years ago I have played this piece with my sister and two musical friends and what a nice piece this is! I also have a lot of fond memories of the performances (in Greek goddesses' clothes) :-)).

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 2 роки тому

      Thank you! I would have loved to have seen this! A.

  • @sserya_
    @sserya_ 2 роки тому

    great :) may you share the sheet music?

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 2 роки тому

      The sheet music is here: www.amazon.co.uk/Pianoworks-Collection-pieces-older-beginner/dp/0193355833

  • @lukasl7636
    @lukasl7636 3 роки тому

    Nice

  • @soundofheartrelaxation652
    @soundofheartrelaxation652 3 роки тому

    Very nice choir, I love it so much, many many thanks for sharing 👍 👏 👏 👏 👍

  • @user-vs9yx6yl8g
    @user-vs9yx6yl8g 4 роки тому

    there are 10 bells in this tower

  • @ceinwenbran
    @ceinwenbran 4 роки тому

    You haven`t aged much since I last saw you in the 90`s!!

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 4 роки тому

      ah, but maybe in the last three years.....

  • @trinnie763
    @trinnie763 4 роки тому

    Please cld u do prelude no. 8 by Alan bullard

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 4 роки тому

      you can hear it - along with the others from Set One, at ua-cam.com/video/krIjVhqm2d0/v-deo.html

  • @JNAStudio
    @JNAStudio 4 роки тому

    You could have moved the pencils

  • @terrymathurin5946
    @terrymathurin5946 4 роки тому

    It's a pretty piece. Some light relief at this time! Thanks, Alan.

  • @sandeshdsouza7337
    @sandeshdsouza7337 4 роки тому

    Lyrics would have been good, at least in the description below.

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 4 роки тому

      Yes, they would - sorry. I will update this video at some point including lyrics.

    • @sandeshdsouza7337
      @sandeshdsouza7337 4 роки тому

      @@bullardmusic Hey no apologies needed! Thank you!

  • @michaelkemp1294
    @michaelkemp1294 4 роки тому

    Very evocative of the scenes depicted. A most sensitive and approachable composition with a touch of sprightly humour in the final movement.

  • @smokeywisk
    @smokeywisk 4 роки тому

    Stunning & from memory, but why not with young brilliant memories

  • @annegolding9068
    @annegolding9068 5 років тому

    Lovely singing, well done

  • @amazingmaestro
    @amazingmaestro 5 років тому

    Thank you for these Alan. Your playing of the middle one in Kieran's memory made me cry. I love all three of them.

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 5 років тому

      Thank you, Colin. I think Kieran would have liked to have been thought of in G sharp minor....

    • @amazingmaestro
      @amazingmaestro 5 років тому

      @@bullardmusic Yes. Very appropriate!

  • @TrainwaySons
    @TrainwaySons 5 років тому

    1) This beggin in a sort of fugue, maybe canon, some themes are evolveing in a strange and really particular way, the improv is well structured, theres some cuts to play some notes, I can ear sometimes super good note sequences. 2) it begins easly, then some complex -maybe 7th- chords, again, the theme come again, and after that, chords, this is structured nicely, this 2nd improv is calm. It continue to evolve to finnish on 4 chords, 3 low and 1 high, pretty complex, it's kind of jazz 3) Speaking of Jazz... Again, the melodie is complex, well mastered, sound like a film music, sometimes 2 same melodies on both hands, somtime, a rich blend between the melody and the left hand, I didnt speak about the rythm, it's awesome, and kept perfectly as long as the music is during, there are some break with up and down the scale, and it ends well with the rest of the melody I can just say, *well done!* The rythm, the melody, the left hand, the music made by the 2 hand work, all this stuff is perfect and really nice to listen. How long have you been playing piano and training improvs? I wonder if one day, I'll be able to improvise music like that^^ PS: sorry if I don't speak rly good, I'm french

  • @MarekMichalakMusic
    @MarekMichalakMusic 6 років тому

    Very interesting hearing this performed by the composer. Differs a fair bit from my own take on this delightful short piece. I took a more liberal view of the tempo markings when I recorded it in December 2015 :) ua-cam.com/video/1h2gLPqZtZg/v-deo.html

    • @bullardmusic
      @bullardmusic 6 років тому

      I enjoy your performance - the extremely slow tempo and the lovely Cavaille Coll sound-set make me think I'm in a big cathedral - whereas my recording just makes me think I'm in my living-room! Alan B

  • @willhunt8963
    @willhunt8963 6 років тому

    Like this if you are a St. Mark's chorister.

  • @samuelfitzgerald2025
    @samuelfitzgerald2025 6 років тому

    10:39 there is a rose tree, absolutely beautiful

  • @keystuition1588
    @keystuition1588 7 років тому

    I've ordered my copy Alan!