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Author Focus: Paul Harris - Improve your practice
26th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
In part two of our Author Focus series, Paul Harris talks through the ingredients of a successful practice session and how to make practising at home desirable and fun.
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New Sheet Music Titles - February 25th
25th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
Piano music by Florence Price and Franz Schubert, diatonic piano studies from Trinity College London, songs from the 1960s and 1970s, Taylor Swift songs for instrumentalists, and Cole Porter for guitar.
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Mahler – The Symphonies
20th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
Breitkopf & Härtel's ongoing project to publish the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler, continues to impress with each new Symphony released.
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Accessible and Beautiful Choral Music
17th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
'Accessible and Beautiful' is a must-have for choirs looking to energize their rehearsals and performances, making choral singing more inclusive in our communities.
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New Sheet Music Titles - February 11th
11th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
Einaudi's 'The Summer Portraits', piano music by Sibelius, and Awadis, new Bärenreiter vocal scores, Schumann's Cello Concerto, Debussy's Danses for Harp, and new orchestral and chamber works from Breitkopf & Härtel.
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Agathe Backer Grøndahl: New Urtext Editions
7th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
Edition Peters recently published the first-ever Urtext editions of two of Backer Grøndahl’s piano works: 'Fantasistykker', and 'I Blaafjellet'. Find out more.
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Introducing Author Focus with Paul Harris
5th Feb 2025by Ellena Taylor
Introducing our new video series Author Focus! In collaboration with Faber Music and Paul Harris, we will be releasing a series of videos focusing on various aspects of sheet music and music education.
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Chick Corea - Children's Songs
3rd Feb 2025by Barney Whittaker
In a moment of mid-career lucidity, the jazz fusion pioneer issued this unaccompanied statement of sweeping but deceptive simplicity.
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New Sheet Music Titles - January 28th
28th Jan 2025by Ellena Taylor
Piano music by Jeff Beal and Myslivecek, a collection of accessible and beautiful music for choir, collections of choral music by Peter Warlock, new titles in the SAM-Klang series, a critical edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'A Sea Symphony', and a choral sight reading resource for secondary choir students.
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Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists
17th Jan 2025by Ellena Taylor
A boxed set of all nine volumes in the renowned Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists series. Find out more.
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New Sheet Music Titles - January 15th
15th Jan 2025by Ellena Taylor
Beethoven's Bagatelles for piano, relaxing J-Pop piano music, a nine-volume box set of Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists, music from the new motion picture Wicked, Karl Jenkin's Adiemus for SATB choir, and ABRSM Music Theory papers.
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David Önaç: Spirituals
17th Dec 2024by Ellena Taylor
David Önaç talks about 'Spirituals', working with UK exam board ABRSM, and the importance of expanding your repertoire from early on in your musical journey.
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New Sheet Music Titles - December 17th
17th Dec 2024by Ellena Taylor
Yann Tiersen's 'Rathlin from a Distance', Brett Dean's 'The Homage Etudes', solo piano music by Bach, Beethoven, and Backer Grøndahl, popular sheet music by Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, and works for string orchestra by Elgar and Tchaikovsky.
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François-Xavier Poizat on Ravel
9th Dec 2024by Matthew Ash
François-Xavier Poizat offers an insight into his love for Ravel, and his recordings of the composer's Complete Works with Piano (released earlier in November on Aparté). He also shares his admiration for Henle's painstaking work on their edition of Ravel's music.
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Sheet Music Publications of the Year - Winners 2024
5th Dec 2024by Ellena Taylor
We are excited to announce the winning sheet music publications for the annual Presto Music Awards! Find out the winners here.
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New Sheet Music Titles - December 3rd
4th Dec 2024by Ellena Taylor
Piano music by contemporary composers; highlights from the Gradebusters series; Spirituals arranged by David Önaç; The EU Songbook; Chinese tunes for solo instrumentalists; new titles from Breitkopf and Bärenreiter; and the complete string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Give Back Friday 2024
28th Nov 2024by Chris O'Reilly
For four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to three incredible charities that align with our passion for music and its power to transform lives: Making Music, London Youth Choirs and Orchestra of the Swan.
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Sheet Music Downloads from Oxford University Press now available!
28th Nov 2024by Ellena Taylor
We are pleased to announce that Presto Music now offers digital downloads from Oxford University Press. Find out more.
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Adam Kornas on 'Open String Tunes'
25th Nov 2024by Ellena Taylor
Adam Kornas talks about his recent book for beginner violinists, featuring thirty progressive pieces using just open strings, with incredible backing tracks in popular styles to motivate students to sound their best.
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Sheet Music Publications of the Year - Finalists 2024
22nd Nov 2024by Ellena Taylor
In anticipation of our upcoming Presto Music Awards, we have released our shortlist of sheet music finalists in contention for an award. Find our finalists here.