New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - January 2023
Welcome to our selection of new sheet music publications, which this month includes Henle publications of works by Bach, Janácek, Liszt, Beethoven, Bartók, and Dvorák; piano music by Gideon Klein; a piano sketchbook by Mike Cornick; Jef Neve's Reflections in Black and White; a collection of music for upper voices reviving the songs sung by boys and girls in the chapels of the charity institutions of Georgian London; a collection of musical settings of speeches by remarkable women in politics; Bach's St. John Passion (1725 version); Judith Weir's On White Meadows; music from the Netflix film Matilda; three clarinet pieces by Emma Johnson; Music Theory Practice papers from ABRSM; and Dvorák's Nocturne for String Orchestra in B major, Op. 40.
Piano, Organ, & Keyboard
Charles Gounod studied Bach’s works intensively. He is said to have improvised his expressive, cantabile melody over the famous broken chords of Bach’s C-major Prelude BWV 846 at a private performance in 1852. This arrangement would later became world famous when underlaid with the text of the Ave Maria. Several instrumental versions of it were initially published in 1853, including one for solo piano by Gounod himself that is presented here for the first time as an Urtext edition.
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Janácek’s poetic cycle On an overgrown path is surely among his most popular piano works. With exemplary clarity, the accompanying texts in Henle’s Urtext edition shed light on the complicated source situation. In addition, an appendix to the musical text contains those pieces that Janácek either did not include in the cycle, or that remained unfinished. Edited by the world’s foremost Janácek researcher, Jiří Zahrádka, with fingering by Lars Vogt.
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Liszt understood a “rhapsody” to signify the highest degree of musical freedom: a constant process of transformation and variation of themes and motifs, all bound up with constant shifts of emotion. This Henle Urtext edition, which draws on all the available sources, now provides players with an opportunity to rediscover Liszt’s First Rhapsody. Italian Liszt specialist Vincenzo Maltempo provides the fingerings.
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Maestro Murray Perahia and Henle’s own proven Beethoven expert Norbert Gertsch present the first of three volumes of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas in a new Urtext edition. Along with his invaluable fingerings, Murray Perahia bestows upon the piano world his in-depth reflections on the emotional world and structural makeup of these compositions.
Also available as a hardback edition.
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The extraordinarily gifted composer and pianist Gideon Klein was murdered in the Fürstengrube concentration camp at the age of 25. One of the undeniable highlights of his small compositional legacy is his Sonata for Piano. Its three movements were written in reverse order in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943; only a three-measure draft of the intended fourth movement has survived. This first Urtext edition has been expanded to include the previously unpublished Landscape.
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In his Piano Sketchbook, Mike Cornick’s many inimitable styles shine through like a beacon. Many of the pieces were composed during the Covid lockdown, joined by two older compositions that Cornick found in some old files. The result is a delightful mixture of light musical fun. All the pieces are short and can be enjoyed by players of intermediate level.
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Reflections in White contains thirteen songs and is the second part of the collection Reflections in Black and White.
Reflections in Black is also available here.
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Underwater Extra Edition presents Ludovico Einaudi’s bonus tracks from the album: 85mm, Adieux, and The Tree. Released in 2022, Underwater was the highest streamed classical album of the year. His first full solo piano album in twenty years, Underwater was written as a statement for when the world was quiet and silent.
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Vocal & Choral
This ground-breaking collection revives the music sung by girls and boys in the chapels of the Charity Institutions of Georgian London. It contains ten mostly short anthems for varied liturgical use by men and women composers, scored for one or two upper voices featuring solo, duet, semi-chorus and tutti combinations, with organ accompaniment.
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Washington Women is a collection of musical settings of speeches, opinions, and interviews of sixteen remarkable women from all across the political spectrum and throughout U.S. history, from Abigail Adams to Kamala Harris. The composers took their words and set them to music with the hopes that performers and their audiences will learn more about these women.
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J.S. Bach: St. John Passion "O Mensch, bewein" BWV 245.2 - Version II (1725)
Bärenreiter | Vocal Score
Unlike Bach’s other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the St. John Passion. The first version of 1724 which is today’s standard version represents a mixture of different readings. The second version of 1725 was performed under the direction of Bach himself and can therefore be considered authentic.
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Version for Mezzo-soprano. On White Meadows is a setting in English of five short verses from Wilhelm Müller's Die Winterreise in which the thoughtful traveller views fields, trees and skies. Around the singer's wide, extended phrases, the piano creates an 'open air' atmosphere.
The song is available in transpositions for soprano/tenor, mezzo soprano, baritone and bass.
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A brand new take on the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical, Netflix's film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical tells the story of an extraordinary girl with a vivid imagination, who dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results. This exclusive folio presents twelve songs from the hit movie soundtrack, including Still Holding My Hand, written exclusively for the film.
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Instrumental Solos
Emma Johnson's Three Perspectives for clarinet and piano, including Echoes, Solace, and Senegal Spirit.
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ABRSM's official Music Theory Practice Papers 2022 are essential resources for candidates preparing for their online Music Theory exams.
Browse all new ABRSM Theory papers here.
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Chamber & Orchestral
Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are 20th-century milestones of the genre. In this First Quartet, Bartók combines late-Romantic sounds with elements of the folk music that had since 1905 been a source of increasing interest to him. This definitive edition, supervised by Bartók scholar László Somfai, is the first-ever Urtext edition of this work.
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17 is also available alongside study score of the two quartets.
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With his op. 87, Dvorák delivered a challenging and mature work in which a mastery of form is combined with memorable themes and surprising harmonic turns, leading it quickly to conquer the hearts of both performers and audiences. The engraver’s model for the first edition is lost; but together with the first edition the autograph survives as a second source for the critical edition, with which Henle continues its series of Urtext editions of this composer.
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The discovery of a lost source to Antonín Dvorák's Nocturne in B major, Op. 40 provides new insights into the genesis of the composition and the composer's intended final form of this lyrical little piece for string orchestra.
Individual parts are also available.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
