New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - March 2023
Welcome to our selection of new sheet music publications, which this month includes piano music to celebrate Henle's 75th anniversary; piano compositions by Fauré, J.S. Bach, Coleridge-Taylor, and Schubert; a new instalment in the pop piano playlist series; the complete organ works by Max Reger; Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs arranged by Jonathan Wikeley; John Stainer's The Crucifixion, a major new redaction of Dido and Aeneas; John Rutter's I sing of a maiden; Reger's Die Nonnen, Op. 112; Trinity College London Singing Exam Pieces from 2023; The Lin-Manuel Miranda collection; music from Minecraft; a giant book of violin classics; a tribute folio featuring Lester Young standards; Fiddle Time Duets from Kathy and David Blackwell; a new addition to Flavour Fusions with Caribbean Folk Tunes; new orchestral scores from Breitkopf & Härtel; a new arrangement of Grant Still's Suite for Violin; and two Omni Music Publishing full scores.
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
For this revised Urtext edition Ullrich Scheideler has undertaken an exemplary investigation of authentic variants, especially in the ornamentation. This new edition also has another Bach specialist on board: Ekaterina Derzhavina, whose carefully-devised fingerings will guide players securely through the cosmos of Bach’s English Suites.
An edition without fingering is also available.
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75 years of Henle Urtext: with this anniversary volume, G. Henle Verlag celebrates the enduring success of its Urtext editions. This album features a representative selection of seventeen famous, often-played piano pieces from Henle’s programme. They are graded from easy to moderately difficult, and are excellently suited for both study and performance purposes.
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Including detailed notes on interpretation by Jean-Pierre Bartoli, this is the first Urtext edition to include an early four-hand version of No. 3. The pieces are suitable for intermediate level pianists, and are well-suited for piano lessons.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Three Humoresques for solo piano were first published in 1898. Schott Music presents this new modern performing edition with errors and inconsistencies from the original edition now corrected.
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This collection presents a selection of Franz Schubert's works that will delight every pianist. In addition to the Longing Waltz and the popular Impromptu in E-flat major, the volume also contains arrangements of his best-known symphonies, chamber music works, and songs. All pieces are suitable for intermediate pianists and provide fingering and metronome suggestions.
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Welcome to the continuation of the ultimate playlist of atmospheric songs for pianists looking for impressive and playable piano arrangements. In this series, top arranger Carsten Gerlitz devotes himself entirely to the glitz and glamor of the greatest pop hits of various decades. Great melodies, beguiling harmonies, skilfully packaged in noble arrangements - that is the Pop Piano Playlist!
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Max Reger’s Complete Organ Works is based on the volumes of the Reger Complete Edition edited by Hans Klotz. In a comprehensive preface, Hans Haselböck comments on the background of each work and provides detailed suggestions for a stylistically authentic interpretation. A clearly organized chronological table of Reger’s organ works offers important orientation aids for everyone wishing to place this important complex of works in its biographical-historical context.
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Vocal & Choral
Jonathan Wikeley's choral arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs offers a new way to engage with these beautiful late works. The first and last songs are accompanied with the middle two unaccompanied. The original settings are available in the first volume of 'Collected Songs by Vaughan Williams'.
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This new Critical Edition is edited by the leading Stainer expert Professor Jeremy Dibble, using Stainer's original manuscript, recently given to the Durham University Library. In twenty movements, The Crucifixion is scored for tenor and bass soloists, SATB choir and organ, and includes five congregational hymns. The work is presented here in a brand-new critical edition with four facsimile pages from the composer’s original manuscript and state-of-the-art music engraving.
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A major new redaction of Dido and Aeneas, this vocal score reflects the latest thinking in terms of source studies and historical musicology. This latest edition of the opera provides impeccable scholarly provenance and is of wide practical application for performers.
The full score is also available.
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Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are supported by a pulsing orchestral accompaniment. Set of Parts.
A vocal score is also available.
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Die Nonnen (The Nuns) can be regarded as a companion piece to Reger’s monumental 100th Psalm. While the latter is a large-scale work climaxing in a Lutheran chorale, Die Nonnen is a setting of a poem by Martin Boelitz, which is infused with the spirit of monastic devotion.
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Trinity College London Singing Exam Pieces from 2023
Trinity College London | Voice & Piano | Grade 5
Graded books for Singing exams from 2023. Each book contains a selection of twelve accompanied songs for the grade as well as downloadable demo and accompaniment audio. The repertoire covers a varied range of styles and periods including musical theatre. Performance notes are included for all pieces in the book giving valuable insights, tips, and suggestions.
You can find all grade books here.
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This collection features twenty-six defining works from Lin-Manuel’s career from In the Heights in 2008 to Encanto in 2021 and everything in between, including, of course, selections from Hamilton!. Lin-Manuel provides the preface to the collection.
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Instrumental Solos & Ensembles
Video game playing meets instrument playing with this great collection featuring music from Minecraft, which has been hailed as having some of the best video game music ever. These books include access to online audio of professionally-recorded demonstration and backing tracks.
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Nicknamed Pres by Billie Holiday (short for President of the Tenor Sax), jazz giant Lester Young is considered to be one of the most important and influential saxophonists of all time. This great tribute folio transcribes thirty of his finest standards, together with a bio and discography.
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This collection presents thirty-one pieces by fifteen composers for the intermediate- to advanced-level player.
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Brahms’s First Violin Sonata in G major is also known by the sobriquet Regenliedsonate (Rain Sonata) because its final movement quotes melodic motifs from his two songs Regenlied and Nachklang (which likewise has rain as its subject). The musical text of this revised Urtext edition is based on that of the newly completed volume of the New Brahms Complete Edition, which guarantees the highest degree of scholarly precision.
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Dvořák composed this concerto at his publisher’s suggestion. He drafted it relatively swiftly in summer 1879, but completing it was a more drawn-out process that lasted until 1882. This Urtext edition draws on both the autograph and on the first editions of the score, solo part and piano reduction. The solo part has been marked up by one of the concerto’s most knowledgeable exponents, world-famous violinist Augustin Hadelich.
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Fiddle Time Duets is an exciting and attractive collection for violinists of all ages by the award-winning educational composers Kathy and David Blackwell. The duets progress from pieces suitable for established beginners through to repertoire ideal for students at approximately Grade 4 and beyond.
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Colourful and flexible instrumental ensemble for players of grade 3 standard and up. Packed with exciting pieces arranged and written for instruments which are easily available. Compiled and edited by Sarah Watts.
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Orchestral & Chamber
Originally written for violin and piano, William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Orchestra was inspired by significant artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Each of the three movements depict three sculptures created in the 1930s: Richmond Barthé’s African Dancer, Sargent Johnson’s Mother and Child, and Augusta Savage’s Gamin. The suite follows traditional fast-slow-fast Classical form.
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Five multi-movement trios for piano and two string instruments by Sibelius are known from the years 1883–1888. The “large” trios, such as the Havträsk and Korpo Trio (JS 207, JS 209), were written for the classical piano trio scoring of violin, violoncello and piano. Apparently, Sibelius kept composing trios to play among his family and friends, having in mind to be one of the musicians himself.
Jean Sibelius's Korpo-Trio is also available.
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Camille Saint-Saëns’ concert piece Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 was composed in 1863. Despite success after the first performances in 1867, the work’s score and orchestral parts had little chance of publication due to concert companies’ reluctance. The orchestral score and parts were first published after the Paris publishing house Durand had acquired publication rights in 1875.
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Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en suite through the complete edition of Jean Sibelius Works in 2013. Lemminkäinen became popular from the beginning and has attained a fixed position in the concert repertoire.
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With a smaller budget, Jerry Goldsmith would not be considered to write music for the Star Trek sequel. Instead, Paramount's vice president of music, Joel Sill, turned to a young composer writing top-notch scores for low-budget films: James Horner. Horner amassed a 93-piece orchestra to perform his classic sci-fi score, augmented with pan pipes, a blaster beam, several synthesizers, and a multitude of percussion instruments including waterphones, a bull's roar, and tubophone.
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In 1992, Columbia Pictures released director Francis Ford Coppola's sumptuous vision of the Dracula myth. Based on a script penned by James V. Hart, critics praised the film's grand, gorgeous, and gothic production design. Coppola tasked Polish composer, Wojciech Kilar, to write the music for the Eastern European setting. His score reflects both sides of Dracula: the menacing and the sensuous.
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This new Henle Urtext edition is based on the New Brahms Complete Edition, for which editor Kathrin Kirsch has consulted all the autograph sources and first editions. With parts that have judiciously set page turns and cue-notes to facilitate performance, it offers the best foundation for approaching this jewel of Brahms’s chamber music.
A study score is also available.
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