A01=Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
Author_Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
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Product details
- ISBN 9780854023516
- Dimensions: 270 x 185mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Royal School of Church Music
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Season to Sing is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s enduringly popular set of violin concertos, The Four Seasons. Published in the 300th Anniversary year of Vivaldi’s most famous work, A Season to Sing enhances the music’s programmatic intent by weaving into the well-loved melodies texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
“The Four Seasons is the first piece of music I can remember hearing from my childhood. I used to dance around the sitting room to it!” Joanna recalls. “I thought a great way to mark its 300th anniversary would be to make it possible for choirs to perform it. Vivaldi’s tunes are so magnificent they deserve to be sung!”
The 40-minute work’s seasonal theme will enable the piece to be performed at any time of the year and it is hoped that A Season To Sing will become a fi rm favourite with choirs throughout the world.
Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is a British vocalist and choral composer whose career began with seven years as music director of the Swingle Singers. Her mission to create a body of tuneful, singable, well-crafted music which every choir can enjoy performing has been described as “an integrity of purpose that infuses every musical
phrase that Forbes L’Estrange writes.” (BBC Music Magazine)
