Announcement,
Sheet Music Special Offers - February 2023
This month we have launched two new special offers with 25% off Universal Edition and 25% off Musica Rara publications until the 31st of March. We are also continuing our offers of 25% off Dover and Ricordi publications until the 28th of February.
Universal Edition - 25% off
Universal Edition was founded in 1901 in Vienna, and rapidly developed into a publishing house serving composers such as Mahler, Janácek, Bartók, and many others. Later, composers such as Boulez, Ligeti, and Berio were added to the catalogue, inseparably linking Universal Edition with the great composers and musical developments of the 20th and 21st centuries. Until the end of March we are offering 25% off over 5,000 titles in the Universal Edition catalogue.
Universal Edition - Featured Products
In A Piano Sketchbook, Mike Cornick’s many inimitable styles shine through. 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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Based on the text of Richard Strauss Works · Critical Edition (RSW), Op. 36 and includes Das Rosenband, Für funfzehn Pfennige (Des Knaben Wunderhorn), Hat gesagt – bleibt’s nicht dabei (Des Knaben Wunderhorn), and Anbetung.
Also available for low or high voice and piano.
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Based on the New Critical Complete Edition by the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft Wien. Includes a preface, bibliography and the detailed critical report by Renate Stark-Voit.
Browse more editions of Mahler's fourth symphony here.
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The name of Carlos Gardel is synonymous with the Tango; his compositions in the genre have long been considered classics. Universal Edition’s popular series of arrangements by Diego Collatti is expanded by this edition for two recorders, expertly edited by the Austrian virtuoso, Thomas List. They can be played on two alto recorders, or alto and tenor, and are for intermediate to advanced players.
Other duet arrangements are also available.
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The British guitarist John W. Duarte was a well-known personality in the guitar world both at home and abroad. His compositions of almost 150 works for guitar and lute incorporate an exceedingly wide range of musical styles. This album offers a precious selection of pieces that reflect his versatility as a composer, arranger, and guitarist.
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Musica Rara - 25% off
Musica Rara was founded in London in 1950. The publisher's program soon took on a clear profile with wind literature of the 17th - 19th centuries: an area which was under-represented by publishers until then. Breitkopf & Härtel acquired the publishing house in 2000, and continues the Musica Rara program through improved reprints and new editions. Until the end of March we are offering 25% off hundreds of titles in the Musica Rara catalogue.
Musica Rara - Featured Products
Sibelius was a major force in the Finnish national movement and many of his works were inspired by the music and the culture of his homeland. In this transcription, arranger Andrew Middleton aimed to use the instrumental timbres in a way that retains the original patriotic qualities but within a smaller ensemble.
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In this arrangement of the Bolero, Christian Beyer dares something that would certainly have led most arrangers to throw up their hands in despair. The result is striking: a version (stylish and sensibly cut) of the well-known masterpiece, which, through clever instrumentation, totally exploits the wind quintet’s timbres and tonal possibilities.
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Born in Bohemia, Johann Baptist Georg Neruda lived the last thirty years of his life as a violinist and composer in Dresden. In 1974 the trumpet player David R. Hickman published the present Trumpet Concerto in E flat major by Neruda and thus rewarded himself and his colleagues with one of the altogether most popular solo concertos for trumpet.
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In his flute sonatas, the royal composer Frederick the Great can lay uncontested claim to an above-average talent. The works stand out for their imaginative power, their skill and their stylistic variety. The grand rooms of Sanssouci Palace must have been filled with heartfelt Adagios and brilliant Allegros that confirmed the virtuoso flute technique of the Quantz pupil.
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There is no doubt that this beautiful variation theme is by Rossini; it comes from his melodrama La donna del lago. But is the Italian opera genius responsible for more than the melody in this piece, which is found in the repertoire of many clarinetists? The only printed source is a set of parts published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1823. Although it ascribes the entire piece to Rossini, the experts are not fully convinced. Nevertheless: the variations are perfectly idiomatic for the instrument, and are both lyrical and virtuoso.
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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).
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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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A selection of twenty short pieces composed by Mozart. Some are widely recognized, while others are much less known. Together, they constitute a short but significant introduction to the art of the Salzburg genius. Each piece includes indications for pedalling and fingering.
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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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Tosca was first performed in Rome, at the Teatro Costanzi, on 14 January 1900. Based on a play by Vincent Sardou, the libretto unfolds in an effective rhetoric that is both direct and decidedly dramatic. The characters and the action seem embossed with touches of polished emotional pliancy, reinforced by the orchestration and vocal style of the music. But the music is also responsible for the more subtle, indirect psychological shading to this context of basic contrasts.
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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.
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A precociously talented pianist, Amy Beach was the first American woman to compose a symphonic work. This collection offers a rich selection of Beach's elegant, stylish miniatures for solo piano, including Ballad, Op. 6 and In Autumn, Dreaming, and Fire-Flies, Op. 15. Introduction by Adrienne Fried Block, an award-wining musicologist.
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Between 1867 and 1901, Grieg wrote ten sets of little mood pictures for piano that display his great musical gifts. Charming works of elegant simplicity and warmth, they have become cornerstones of the piano repertoire. This authoritative edition presents all sixty-six of these piano jewels.
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This volume contains the complete music for solo piano written by Claude Debussy between 1888 and 1905. Beginning with Deux Arabesques, it offers the Suite Bergamasque, Reverie, Danse, Estampes and many more. This edition has been designed to be used at the piano.
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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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Among the most popular and important modern British composers, Gustav Holst (1874–1934) was a true eccentric, given to odd enthusiasms and mystical musings. His spectacular symphonic suite The Planets, first performed in 1918, established his international reputation and remains a staple of the orchestral repertoire to this day.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music Specialist
