46Introduction by Brian TrowellCONTENTSThe Jackdaw (C - E)The Magpie (A - F sharp)Tune for Swans (E - F)The Bedpost (D - F sharp)Henry and Mary (C - E flat)Spring Sadness (C sharp - F sharp)Lament (B - F)You are a refuge (C - C)My…
Written for the choirs of Chichester Winchester and Salisbury Cathedrals An Admonition to Rulers Op.43 was composed shortly before Mathias's choral masterpiece This Worlde's Joie but has remained unpublished until now.Its powe…
Here is a set of five glorious and rousing songs by Charles Villiers Stanford. This is the Vocal Score edition of Songs of the Fleet and contains the score for Baritone solo SATB chorus and a Piano reduction of the Orchestral mat…
Edmund Jolliffe's setting of the communion antiphon for the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass may be sung to equally powerful effect either liturgically or as the focus of a collective expression of remembrance or as a moving addition…
Edited by David Chadd The music of John Sheppard who was about ten years younger than Tallis dates from the uncertain times of the Reformation and the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. Perhaps his most impressive work is to be found…
Edited by Thurston Dart and Nigel Fortune13 of the finest settings taken from John Dowland: Ayres for Four Voices originally transcribed as Volume 6 of Musica Britannica by Edmund Fellowes. The Elizabethan and Jacobean lutesongs …
A third book of songs by this great English composer all edited by Maureen Lehane and Peter Wishart. CONTENTS:Evening hymn (C - F)I attempt from love's sickness to fly (C sharp - G (E))I'll sail upon the dog star (C - G)Nymphs an…
Standard: IntermediateSix fresh new arrangements of immortal melodies from Bizet's operatic tragedy of passion betrayal and murder will be welcomed by all players of the instrument. For the Carmen Suite well-known soloist and ed…
Edited by Barry CooperThe organ voluntaries double or cornet voluntaries and psalm-tune settings by John Blow form a substantial corpus of material - 48 pieces in all - that sheds much light on the developing keyboard style of th…
Viola part arranged by Watson Forbes-Viola part arranged by Watson Forbes. This arrangement will play with the Piano part of the original Cello and Piano edition published by Breitkopf and Hartel and any other editions therefore …
The lively Tambourin by Rameau is among the most popular of baroque instrumental pieces and in H. Samuel Sterling's idiomatic arrangement for double bass and piano it forms a welcome addition to the bassist's repertoire. Giordani…
There being no just cause or impediment to the contrary Christopher Maxim makes a daring liaison between the music-hall ballad 'Daisy Daisy' (on pedals) and the grand organ style of Vierne (on manuals) in his Toccata Nuptiale w…
Edited by Robert KlakowichThe complete harpsichord music of John Blow is here made available for the first time including eleven doubtful works and incipits of spurious ones. In this collection there are dances such as almands c…
Twelve pieces by John Bull Giles and Richard Farnaby Orlando Gibbons Leonhard Woodson and others are here collected to make an attractive anthology of English keyboard music found in the precious Lynar A manuscripts which also…
Standard: IntermediateA languid melody for solo horn and a rich-coloured piano accompaniment evoke a mood not so far from the landscape tradition of The Lark Ascending but with an out-of-doors quality entirely its own. Summer P…
Originally for Piano and String Quartet and later provided with piano accompaniment by the composer. Newly edited with an introduction by Michael Pilkington. CONTENTSThe Aspens (C - E)The Far Country (C sharp - E)Golden Friends …
Edited by John DrummondA retelling of the biblical story of Ruth in a rural north-of-England setting Rosina was Shield's fourth opera and was a considerable success at its premiere on the last day of December 1782. Rosina's im…
A title for each letter of the alphabet these 26 pieces explore a wide variety of styles including jazz and blues; modes and the pentatonic scale are used in addition to major and minor keys with no more than two sharps of flats.…
This volume consists of forty advanced studies for Cello by talented German composer Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer. Though he wrote many successful symphonies and concertos it was as a teacher that he found most success and h…
A prolific editor and arranger for the organ Best also composed church music carols glees piano music orchestral pieces as well as works for the organ. Major works for the 'King of Instruments' include 'Four Concert Fantasias…
For parish choirs Edmund Jolliffe offers a fine post-communion anthem in a much-loved idiom of Anglican liturgical music. The resources are straightforward: SATB choir without divisions and Piano. The effects however are subtle. …
Edited by H Diack JohnstoneLike its predecessor Florimel Phoebe (1743) the second of Maurice Greene’s two operas sets a libretto by John Hoadly. Probably written for performance at the Apollo Society founded by Greene himsel…
Chopin’s Study (or Etude) In C Minor Op.10 No.12 also known as the Revolutionary Study is a wonderfully powerful piece for Solo Piano. The demanding left-hand maintains a constant semi-quaver movement which requires some stre…
Hollins was a composer of organ music but also a virtuoso pianist and organist despite being blind from birth. The piece is light in style as its name suggests but requires a fairly good manual technique and neat pedalling. A t…
Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 69. Edited by Barry Cooper.This collection of sixteen pieces by John Blow (1649-1708) taken from the complete organ music published in Volume 69 of Musica Britannica is an authoritative int…
