New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - November 15th
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
This last of the surviving C major sonatas was written during Haydn’s second London sojourn in 1794/95 for the pianist Terese Jansen, Mrs Bartolozzi. This revised Henle Urtext edition uses skilfully set-up ossia staves and is also provided with new fingering by Christian Zacharias. The accompanying texts reflect the latest research from the Haydn Complete Edition.
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The piano does not lack for virtuoso showpieces. But this Etude from Scriabin’s Op. 8 definitely ranks among the highest in terms of popularity. A Horovitz concert without this explosive study in octaves would have been almost inconceivable. Henle offers this Urtext edition of the dazzling Etude with fingering by world-renowned pianist Boris Giltburg.
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Bach’s French Suites are among his most popular keyboard works. In this revised Henle Urtext, editor Ullrich Scheideler presents the complicated source situation with exemplary clarity. Suite no. II in c minor, BWV 813, is extracted from the complete volume as a handy and reasonably-priced single edition, perfectly suited for teaching.
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With Beyond the Screen, Rachel Portman has curated some of her most cherished film music for solo piano. The album comprises various new solo piano arrangements by the composer based on her well-known soundtracks such as Chocolat, The Cider House Rules or The Duchess, as well as a piano suite from her Oscar-winning original score Emma.
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What if the iconic melodies of Studio Ghibli were arranged as piano duets by classical composers? Introducing the highly anticipated second volume of the popular piano duet series! Experience the luxurious duet sound enriched with the distinctive styles of classical composers and interwoven fragments of beloved melodies.
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A treasure trove of timeless holiday classics for the pianist in one budget-friendly volume! This collection of thirty-six Christmas favorites is perfect for beginner to intermediate classical players looking to add a festive flair to their repertoire.
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La Nativité du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen, originally published in four separate books, is now finally released in a single volume accompanied by composer’s notes in French, English and German.
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The Notebook for Johann Christian Bach completes the collection of surviving instructional works from within the Bach family, following the highly praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Together, Bach’s Notebooks provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home.
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Vocal & Choral
For this comprehensive new edition, the editor Graham Parlett has drawn on all available sources, providing an authoritative full score with critical commentary.
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Newly discovered and edited by leading Stanford authority Jeremy Dibble, the Nine Irish Folksongs for SATB a cappella reveal a composer who was steeped in the lore of his native Erin, and a master of the romantic partsong. The editor’s introduction explains the fascinating links with Stanford’s earlier folksong settings for voice and piano, and additional notes highlight the nineteenth-century Irish literary background.
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Swiss up your choir! The choral collection Swiss Choral Music is a real treasure trove of recent choral music from Switzerland. As diverse as the country itself, this volume of approximately thirty choral settings of varying levels of difficulty includes not only a range of musical styles, but all the Swiss national languages as well as English and Latin.
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None other than Johann Sebastian Bach arranged Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s well-known Stabat mater. Bach replaced the old liturgical sequence of the original with a rhymed version in German of the 51st Psalm, Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden. The presented edition now offers Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden for choir by adding male voices based on the basso continuo as well as Bach’s original viola part.
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Puccini wrote the cantata I figli d’Italia bella in 1877 for a competition held by the province of Lucca. Considered lost for many years, a set of parts turned up about twenty years ago in which, however, the vocal solo was missing. Then in 2019, an anonymous and previously unattributed manuscript was identified as an autograph of Puccini. It became clear that this was the missing complete score!
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Composed for Wheaton College, Morten Lauridsen’s Ave Verum Corpus is written for choir and string orchestra (or organ) with finger cymbals. The traditional Latin text is expressed with intricate melodic lines supported by lush harmonies.
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This appealing Christmas Suite by Emma Johnson is made up from three arrangements of carols (Carol of the Bells, Coventry Carol, and Silent Night) for upper voices and clarinet.
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If you're one of the people who have listened to Olivia's sophomore release so often that it put all twelve songs onto the Billboard Hot 100 charts, chances are you will want this songbook so that you can play all the tracks yourself! This matching folio includes all twelve songs arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames.
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Instrumental Solos
From the almost inexhaustible pool of flute duets, editors Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter discovered lesser-known treasures from four centuries for this collection in order to make them accessible to the interested flute world. As authentic sources as possible served as models for the compositions: autographs, early copies or first printings that made it possible to approximate the original text.
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This short yet elegant piece, with its A-B-A structure and an emphasis on playing "avec élégance", epitomizes the "genre piece" or "salon piece" style. Throughout, Pierné's Canzonetta reflects the embodiment of French good taste and has been interpreted with skill and artistry by esteemed clarinettists, making it a testament to Pierné's contributions to this genre.
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Wayne Shorter was a legendary American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Sherwood Concerto for soprano saxophone (or clarinet) and orchestra was premiered by Nicolas Prost and Sébastien Paindestre in New York City, N.Y. February, 22 2023. The reduction for soprano saxophone and piano was arranged by composer and pianist Olivier Calmel.
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This wonderfully lyrical work is one of his most cheerful creations. The musical text of this revised Urtext edition is based on the recently-published volume within the New Brahms Complete Edition, which guarantees the highest degree of scholarly precision. Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen, masters of their respective instruments, provide helpful fingerings.
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Chamber & Orchestral
Despite clearly orienting himself around the quartets of Viennese Classicism, Verdi succeeds here in making an independent and ingenious contribution to the genre. This Henle Urtext edition is based on the Italian first edition, though important secondary sources such as the autograph score and the French first edition have also been consulted.
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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 this critical edition.
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Prepare to embark on a symphonic odyssey through the ethereal world of Edward Scissorhands. Let the harmonies and melodies transport you to a realm of pure emotion and wonder, as the power of music and cinema converge in perfect harmony.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
