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Passport to Play Guitar
The Passport to Play Guitar tutor series for beginners uses music drawn from styles and cultures from all around the world, alongside pieces inspired by the places that the authors have encountered on their travels. Find out more here.
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Breitkopf & Härtel - Music at Home
Breitkopf has been working hard to meet the growing demand for works in smaller scorings. Find out more.
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The Year of the Organ
Each year in Germany a new instrument is selected as the instrument of the year. This year is the year of the Organ, and in conjunction with this celebration we have compiled a collection of some of the most recent and bestselling organ publications.
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Bartók’s Complete Choral Works
Based on the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition, Bartók's complete choral works are now available in this set of three cloth-bound volumes combined in a slipcase. Find out more about this publication alongside a range of other new Bartók sheet music here.
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The Rusty Pianist: Rediscover the Piano
In conjunction with the release of Pam Wedgwood's latest publication The Rusty Pianist we have compiled a collection of sheet music ideal for people who have previously played the piano, and are interested in rediscovering the instrument again. Find out more here.
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Nikki Iles & Friends: Jazz Pieces for Piano
Nikki Iles & Friends is a collection of original compositions and new arrangements for piano written by Nikki Iles and her friends from the world of jazz including Jason Rebello, Gwilym Simcock, Pete Churchill and more.
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 from Breitkopf & Härtel
The first text-critical edition of Mahler’s most extensive work, his Symphony No. 3, is a further milestone in Breitkopf & Härtel’s project, Mahler – The Symphonies. Find out more here.
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Schumann’s Cello Concerto Rediscovered
Edited by internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight, Edition Peters presents the original version of Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129, the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it.
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Celebrating Astor Piazzolla's 100th Anniversary
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla's birth. A composer whose works revolutionised the traditional tango into a new style termed Nuevo Tango, incorporating elements from both jazz and classical music. Find out more here.
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A Stanford Organ Album
A superb volume comprising of a selection of twenty pieces by Charles Villiers Stanford, the hugely influential composer, conductor, and teacher from the late-Victorian and Edwardian age. Providing the repertoire-hungry organist with preludes, postludes, and shorter descriptive works, suitable for either liturgical or recital use. Find out more here.
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Frédéric Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études
Introducing Edition Peters' new Urtext edition of Chopin’s Trois Nouvelles Études, the latest publication from The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition. Originally published in 1840 in the multi-composer Méthode des Méthodes, the Trois Nouvelles Études are Chopin’s least overtly vituosic studies, but they are arguably the most quietly sophisticated of all. Find out more here.
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Great Choral Works in Small Scorings
Offering arrangements to make it easier and considerably more economical to perform the great choral works every choir wants to sing.
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Best of Boosey & Hawkes
A collection of some of Boosey & Hawkes' most popular publications to date.
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Presto Sheet Music Awards 2020
We are excited to announce our first ever Presto Sheet Music awards! There have been so many fantastic new publications this year, but our winning products in particular have made a significant impression on us here at Presto. Find out more here.
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Introducing Presto Instruments & Accessories
We are very pleased to be able to announce the latest development on the Presto website: a new department dedicated to musical instruments and accessories which we launched at the end of last month.
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Beethoven 250th Anniversary
This year marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Browse some of our favourite selections here.
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Sheet Music for Well-Being
Explore our selection of some of the most relaxing sheet music collections. From meditative piano solos, to a practical guide to the benefits of singing, we hope our selection of music for well-being will bring you peace and tranquility through the power of music.
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Edition Peters Concert Band Series
The Peters Concert Band Series offers an exciting new range of repertoire for symphonic bands. This expanding series contains new arrangements of some of the most popular concert and choral works of recent years, from the exuberant joyfulness of Jonathan Dove’s Ring Out, Wild Bells or the folky, avant-pop of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Perpetuum Mobile to the enraptured stillness of Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Stars.
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Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas
Beethoven's ten sonatas for piano and violin, along with those by Mozart, constitute the heart of this classical music genre. Not only does Clive Brown's scholarly critical edition offer a meticulously edited text, but for the first time it presents a list of sources and a Critical Report. Find out more about Barenreiter's Beethoven publications here.
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Alfred's Back to School 2020 Publications
Welcome to our selection of a range of publications from Alfred’s 2020 Back to School catalogue! Packed with exciting new titles from Alfred, Piano Safari and Poco Studios, all-time classics and educational must-haves, as well as COVID-proof self-teaching methods.
