Edited by Warwick Edwards
15 pieces from the Walsingham Consort Book of 1588 and 19 pieces from Matthew Holmes's Consort Books, c.1575 represent music for mixed consort, a colourful and eclectic genre that played an important role in Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music-making. / Partitions classique / Ensemble et orchestre / Ensemble mixte / STAINER AND BELL

Even for Ralph Vaughan Williams the prospect of two world premieres within 24 hours must have been something of a rarity. Such was the case however on the first two days of June 1953 when his now classic arrangement of The Old Hundredth Psalm was sung at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey being preceded the evening before by the premiere of 'Silence and Music' fourth of ten par…

Score and PartsStandard: ElementaryChristine Brown is a highly respected teacher and composer for young people and in her Chandos Suite for violin cello and piano she marries her wealth of practical experience in coaching elementary players in the art of chamber music with her distinctively tuneful way of writing for the three instruments. A wistful Prelude precedes a mysterious scherzo of pluck…

SATB and organCaleb Simper (1857-1942) was for many years amongst the most performed of living composers by virtue of his anthems and services which were 'sung throughout the civilised world'. To complement his ever popular voluntaries for the church year (still available from Stainer & Bell) five of his anthems are here reissued in a new edition by Simper's biographer Christopher Turner. Mater…

Angelus; Trio; Interlude and PaeanThe reissue of four pieces by Norman Cocker celebrated organist of Manchester Cathedral in the inter-war period further extends Stainer & Bell's library of English Cathedral music that also includes the complete solo works of Basil Harwood and pieces by Darke Hollins and Bairstow. Detailed registrations by Henry Ley himself a noted performer and Music Director…

Publication of the complete English sacred music of George Jeffreys (c.1610–1685) opens a window on the achievement of one of the few pre-Commonwealth composers wholeheartedly committed to the contemporary Italianate stile nuovo. Besides a quantity of sacred works in Latin, there are 26 surviving English anthems and devotional pieces, plus three settings from the Communion Service, an impressive …

The composer was drawn to the beautiful stillness and sadness of the poem by Christina Rossetti which transcends its rigid sonnet structure and allude via the epigraph to the mysterious Willow-Wood cycle by Christina's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The music suggests a division of the poem into three stanzas alternating with tranquil interludes (using the opening melody) representing the 'wil…

Compositeur : Storace StephenInstrumentation : Voix haute, ClavNo more his fears alarming ; How mistaken is the lover ; Be mine tender passion ; etc. Edition Michael Pilkington / Voix solo - piano / Stainer And Bell

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In his Prelude ? The Truth from Above, outstanding arranger and curator Paul Hindmarsh has distilled the essence of a timeless Christmas classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams into five minutes of ravishingly unforgettable music for brass band. The variants of the Herefordshire tune popular from the Fantasia on Christmas Carols and The Oxford Book of Carols are skilfully and…

SQUIRE W.H. - ROMANCE - VIOLONCELLE and PIANO / Alto / Stainer And Bell

17 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment. CONTENTSAll alone and all together (D - B); Bell of creation (A - C); Better take a book to bed (C - C)Bitter was the night (C - E flat); Down below (B flat - E flat); Feeling sad and lonely (C - B)Friday morning (C sharp - E); Good literature (B - B); I want to have a little bomb like you (C - C)Lord of the Dance (D - D); Middle-aged middle-class med…

Par PURCELL HENRY. / Répertoire / SATB et Orgue