New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - October 24th
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
The bagatelles reflect Beethoven’s diverse compositional cosmos in miniature. Technically, they range from moderate dexterity to demanding virtuosity. New interesting findings regarding interpretation, a compelling Foreword and insightful notes on Viennese piano playing in Beethoven’s time as well as a detailed Critical Commentary offer an abundance of information and a new perspective on Beethoven’s bagatelle œuvre.
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Just like the third, the Fourth Hungarian Rhapsody, also issued in 1853, is based on a piano piece previously published as a Hungarian National Melody. In addition to the printed sources, the autograph was taken into account for the first time for the Urtext edition. Mária Eckhardt contributed the preface, and Vincenzo Maltempo, one of the leading experts on Liszt’s rhapsodies, provided the fingerings.
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Transcriptions of the late composer’s best and most-loved piano works are brought together in a stunning high-end cloth-bound hardback limited edition book. Featuring thirty accurate transcriptions of piano works from across his albums and films, including the soundtrack for The Theory of Everything, Free the Mind and Flight From the City. Suitable for intermediate pianists, it also includes a wealth of striking photographs and a specially commissioned introduction from American composer, Dustin O’Halloran.
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The latest volume in Hans-Günter Heumann's successful Best of Piano Classics series offers an attractive colourful mix of very easy to easy original piano pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods. In addition to popular repertoire pieces, it also includes discoveries that enrich modern teaching and auditions. The 100 short original pieces provide pure variety and motivation for beginners and those returning to the piano.
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A first critical edition of the complete organ music of Augustin Barié. The sudden death of Augustin Barié in 1915 robbed the world of one of its most promising composers. With an output of just three publications, the five-movement Symphonie pour Orgue, the evocative Élégie and Trois Pièces, Barié was destined to become a composer equal to his teacher Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor.
Wirebound edition also available.
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Piano, Keyboard, & Organ Duets
Polish pianist Josef Hofmann, to whom the concerto was dedicated, did not want to perform it in public during his lifetime, and it was Vladimir Horowitz who eventually facilitated its breakthrough on the concert stage. Aside from the first edition and recordings, for this edition, Henle were also able to consult the autograph full score that is housed at the British Library. As with all of Henle's Rachmaninoff editions, the fingering is by virtuoso of the century Marc-André Hamelin. Two copies are required for performance.
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L’Esprit Symphonique Français – French Symphonic Music for Organ
Lyrebird Music | Hardback | Organ Duet
Composers often transcribed symphonic compositions for the orchestra for either piano duo or duet. Although intended for piano, their orchestrations were inevitably reduced to suit the new media, though these rarely capture more than a ‘black and white’ picture, despite the originals being so rich in orchestral colours. However, using four hands and four feet on the organ makes it possible to incorporate all the orchestral parts and reorchestrate (or we might even say ‘colourise’) all these versions, allowing us to return to the composers’ original thoughts.
Wirebound edition also available.
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Vocal & Choral
A major addition to the celebrations marking the hundredth anniversary of Stanford’s death, the reissuing of his Eight Partsongs, Op. 127 with an introduction by Professor Jeremy Dibble confirms not only his outstanding position amongst English choral composers but also his mastery of the German Chorlied tradition, inviting comparison with the secular choral works of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Brahms.
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is a three-movement work by Bob Chilcott, exploring the concepts of reflecting on the past, living in the present, and not worrying about the future. The words were written with children in mind, and are inspired by a translated Sanskrit text used in Chilcott's piece Look to this day!.
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A new work by pianist and composer Evgeny Kissin. These nine Yiddish poems were penned by his friend, the author and lyricist Boris Sandler. Kissin follows in his very folksong-like settings, which are easy for amateur music lovers to sing and play, the prevailing mood of each poem promises a subtle, cryptic and entirely profound humour. This Henle edition presents the Yiddish song texts not only in Hebrew letters but also transliterated into Latin characters, with an appendix additionally offering German and English prose translations of the poems.
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The Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s Liederjahr. It was composed in the time immediately following Schumann’s marriage to Clara Wieck. Schumann set a series of poems to music in November and the cycle was complete by the turn of the year. It contains a great deal of intimate musical innuendos. With Henle’s edition, the songs in Schumann’s cycle are once again being published together in a single volume. The cycle has been transposed for medium and low voice in close collaboration with the experienced pianist and Lied accompanist Jan Philip Schulze.
The edition for low voice is available here.
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Rodrigo's Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios or Four Madrigals of Love for high voice and orchestra. The score includes the songs ¿Con qué la lavaré?, Vos me matásteis, ¿De dónde venís, amore?, and De los álamos vengo, madre.
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Instrumental Solos
Classical Ukulele Anthology is a journey through twenty faithful transcriptions for ukulele of works drawn from the classical repertoire, with re-entrant (high G) tuning, presented in order of difficulty. The works collected here are included in tablature form and traditional notation. Each piece is designed as both a concert miniature and an exercise.
Volumes two and three are also available.
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Violin Junior is a fun and creative violin method for children from the age of 5 years upwards. The repertoire covers a wide range of styles from classical music to folk, world and popular music. Join Fiocco the Frog in this new approach and find out just how much fun playing the violin can be! Lesson Books include many duets for two students to play together as well as imaginative technical, aural, rhythm and improvisation exercises.
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A new engraving of the transcription for violin and piano of the famous piece Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux. Introduction by Edmond Lemaitre in French and English.
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The so-called F. A. E. Sonata is an extraordinary collective work with an equally unusual title and concept. In late October 1853, Robert Schumann, Albert Dietrich and Johannes Brahms presented it as a surprise to their friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, who had come to Düsseldorf to give some concerts. The three letters of its title refer to Joachim’s life motto “Frei, aber einsam”; “free, but lonely”, and the sequence of notes derived from it – f-a-e – infuses the whole sonata, more or less hidden from view.
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Giovanni Battista Viotti was a fascinating musical personality who lived at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. His training as a violin virtuoso was still in the traditions of the Corelli school, while his eventful life formed a bridge to the bourgeois music culture of the 19th century, with Paris and London the two most important centres for his career. His 29 violin concertos form the heart of his oeuvre, with no. 22 by far the most popular of them.
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If you are a Studio Ghibli fan and play an instrument, here it is! All-time favourite Studio Ghibli songs are arranged for cello and piano. Includes songs from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, and Howl’s Moving Castle.
Find more Studio Ghibli publications here.
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Chamber & Orchestral
This pearl, quite undeservedly neglected, therefore awaits rediscovery! The three-movement work displays Romberg's unmistakably delicate style, with carefully crafted dialogues between piano and strings. It is quite performable in its requirements, even for amateur musicians.
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Inspired by the success of his First Piano Quartet, published in 1884, the composer began a second work in this genre only a short time later. The style is considerably more serene and individual than that of the first quartet, and both the sequence and character of the movements are more reminiscent of Schumann and Brahms. Through the comparison with the autograph, Fauré specialist Fabian Kolb was able to correct with this Urtext edition numerous errors of the first edition.
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This technically demanding three-movement composition was written against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. In dramatic, gripping musical language Kissin describes here the horrors of the battlefield, but also gives moving expression to the hope for an early peace. The trio, which he has already performed on numerous occasions with his musician friends, has thus become his most personal work to date.
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This book has all the hallmarks of a classic Elfman score. He brings back the familiar Batman march for the sequel, but also invents two new themes: one for Penguin and the other for Catwoman. The order of the day was “operatic.” — more grand in scope than the original and more dramatic. Elfman certainly delivered! This score is over 400 pages of brilliant and nuanced orchestration.
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A classic from film composer Jerry Goldsmith. Total Recall is easily one of his most beloved scores, full of top-notch, energetic action music. The film’s futuristic setting and ground-breaking visuals are well-suited for Goldsmith’s trademark use of light electronics mixed with raw, orchestral intensity. Featured is an in-depth analysis of the music; also included, along the top staff, are descriptions of dramatic changes in the scenes.
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The music in A Streetcar Named Desire is a great example of a classic Hollywood score, full of rich textures and wonderful themes. It is a master class in writing music under dialogue, and there is a lot of dialogue in Streetcar. It ranges from entire scenes, or simply just one name (if you know, then you know). North displays a mastery of using orchestral textures and polychordal harmony to tell a story.
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Part of the revised and corrected new edition of all fifteen symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski as large format study scores for optimal legibility. All scores have been newly computer typeset.
Symphonies 1, 9, 11, and 15 are now available.
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