Announcement,
Sheet Music Special Offers - January 2023
This month we have launched three new special offers with 25% off Dover and Ricordi publications until the 28th of February, and 50% off selected products in our January Sheet Music & Books Sale until the 31st January. We are also continuing our offer of 25% off Carus Verlag until the 31st of January.
January Sheet Music & Books Sale - 50% off
We're having a bit of a clear-out here at Presto for the start of the new year, and so for one month only we are offering 50% off a selection of hundreds of products across a wide range of instruments and genres, as well as a selection of textbooks and biographies. This offer is strictly while stocks last: once we have run out of an item it will be removed from the promotion and returned to full price.
January Sheet Music & Books Sale - Featured Products
A prize possession of the Belwin Mills catalog, these thirteen pieces are from the Russian 'Combined Prayer Service' or 'All Night Vigil.' For sacred or secular forces, the subtle intricacies, imposing climaxes, and dramatic contrast will call out the best of which conductor and chorus are capable.
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Baltic choral music has undergone a massive resurgence in recent years. Sacred choral music, in particular, has flourished since the end of the Soviet era, with composers such as Eriks Ešenvalds and Rihards Dubra achieving international recognition. This collection of choral music brings together a number of pieces covering a range of difficulty, from simple pieces for young singers to more challenging works for adult choirs.
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A New Heaven: Harry Christophers and The Sixteen - Choral conversations with Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Faber & Faber | Hardback
Harry Christophers is a unique figure in music. With The Sixteen, Christophers has succeeded in nurturing a choir of exceptional calibre, establishing a business model that includes a record label and extensive tours to capacity audiences, mining a rich variety of repertoire, and combining enormous popular appeal with the stamp of approval from experts. This book will be accessible to everyone, regardless of musical experience or knowledge.
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Dover Publications - 25% off
Since their founding in 1941, Dover Publications has built its reputation by offering high-quality, inexpensive reprints of older editions. Alongside their sheet music they also publish many books about music, including composer biographies, and textbooks on harmony, orchestration and other topics. Until the end of February we are offering 25% off Dover publications.
Dover Publications - Featured Products
This volume contains all sixty-three of Rameau's works for keyboard, published between 1706 and 1741, including well-known pieces as Musette En Rondeau, Tambourin, Les Niais De Sologne and La Poule. From the complete works edition edited by Camille Saint-Saëns.
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This volume reproduces, complete and unabridged, the scores of all four symphonies of Johannes Brahms, from the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde edition.
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Danse Macabre And Other Piano Transcriptions offers modern-day pianists insights into Liszt's peerless gift for transferring sonorities from one medium to another as well as the opportunity to develop a deeper familiarity with several Orchestral masterpieces.
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This practice and performance edition with a separate, removable violin part contains three of the composers best and most challenging pieces for violin and piano: Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs); Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25, based on the opera by George Bizet; and the exhilarating Introduction and Tarantella. Reproduced from authoritative editions, these works are essential tothe repertoire of all serious violinists.
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The melodies, harmonies, moods, and rhythms of Norwegian folk songs and dances — even the sounds of old Norwegian folk instruments — inspired and filled the music of Edvard Grieg. These distinctive influences combined with the composer's deeply poetic nature and sensitive pianistic craft to produce a rich treasury of short compositions for piano. Eighty of the best of these pieces have been selected for this outstanding collection.
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Ricordi - 25% off
With almost two hundred years of history behind it, Casa Ricordi is the oldest Italian music publishing firm still in business. It is the leader in the Italian market and unquestionably the world's most important publisher of opera. Until the end of February we are offering 25% off more than 11,000 items from their catalogue (unfortunately Critical Editions are excluded from this promotion).
Ricordi - Featured Products
This edition is a journey through some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most famous works that, thanks to Luigi Attademo’s transcriptions for guitar, acquire a new and unprecedented sonority.
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Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor has remained in the repertory without interruption as one of Donizetti’s most popular operas throughout its nearly 200-year history. This critical edition restores the original keys, thus maintaining Donizetti’s overall harmonic design, but discusses transpositions that later entered the performing and editorial tradition of the opera. What is presented here is the reduction for voice and piano.
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Maria Linnemann's fifteen easy pieces for guitar solo includes groovy Country-Blues, boisterous jigs, a melancholic tango, and a song from the Provence, complemented by melodies taking you to her beautiful home country, England.
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Twenty-seven songs by Respighi, Pizzetti, Alfano Zandonai, Casella and other composers, with an introduction in English and translations for study.
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A selection of thirty-seven arias for voice and piano with plot synopses and translations in Italian and English.
Find more titles in the Ricordi Opera Anthology series here.
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Carus Verlag - 25% off
Carus Verlag was founded in 1972 with the aim of publishing editions of sacred choral music that were previously unpublished, out of print, or in older editions that did not conform to the standards of modern editorial practice. Carus has become a leading publisher of sacred music worldwide. Until the end of January we are offering 25% off Carus publications.
Carus Verlag - Featured Products
The posthumously compiled collection of ten smaller organ pieces WoO 25 brings together a series of interesting pieces from the years 1854 to 1896. It includes one of just two chorale settings by Rheinberger, the prelude on Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden. With short trios, preludes and fugues in different keys, the collection is particularly suitable for use in worship, but also for teaching.
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The Magnificat RV 160 has come down to us in two versions. The first version is dominated by the choral concept. In the second version the texts of Et exultavit, Quia respexit, Quia fecit, Esurientes, and Sicut locutus est are each given new and extended solo arias that – as the manuscripts reveal – were tailored to voices of girls from the Ospedale orphanage in Venice.
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The Symphonie Romane can be described as a great cyclical Easter symphony: based on the Easter gradual Haec Dies, this four-movement work expresses the miracle of the resurrection and the Easter rejoicing in music.
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The rediscovery of the original manuscripts of Max Reger’s works for violin, viola and violoncello op. 131a–d in the Prague Conservatory Library represents a small sensation. These late works for solo strings, the last of which only appeared posthumously, were previously only known from their first prints. The Preludes and Fugues op. 131a for violin were written in the spring of 1914 during Reger’s convalescent stay in Merano.
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Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn’s compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music Specialist
