New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - July 23rd
Welcome to our selection of new sheet music publications, which this month includes a collection of world music arrangements of piano works by Bach, the third edition of Piano Time, a collection of piano music by Robert Schumann, Fanny Hensel's Ostersonate, music from Final Fantasy games and Studio Ghibli films, a new organ postlude by Tim Knight, a low voice edition of Schubert Lieder, Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in French, new Rockschool publications, string orchestra works from Henle, and Fauré's Pavane for string quartet.
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
This piano sonata was still considered to be by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy when it was recorded by Éric Heidsieck in 1972. It was not until 2010, almost 200 years after its composition in 1828, that musicologist Angela Mace Christian was able to unequivocally attribute the work to Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel. Bärenreiter presents the first Urtext edition of the Easter Sonata.
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Piano Time 1 starts at the very beginning, with simple five-finger tunes for hands separately and together. With attractive pieces in all styles, a gradual pace, and full-colour illustrations, this is a superb tutor book for all young pianists. Play-along audio tracks and a separate accompaniment book are also available. Books 1 to 3 are available now.
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This collection presents a selection of Robert Schumann's works that will delight every pianist. In addition to popular original character pieces, the volume also contains arrangements of his symphonies, chamber music works and songs. All pieces are of easy to intermediate difficulty and include fingerings and metronome suggestions. The reader-friendly typography is suitable not only for lessons but also for all amateur pianists.
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This edition’s world music pieces see themselves as a creative compositional dialogue between Johann Sebastian Bach and non-European musical cultures as well as other periods of music history. The richness of detail, transparency and polyphonic structure of Bach's music are also important for the works in this collection.
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This is a collection of easy piano solo arrangements featuring memorable masterpieces from the Final Fantasy series of games I to XIII, which have fans all over the world. This collection includes iconic tracks such as Chocobo Theme and Aerith's Theme from the early games, as well as classic pieces like Eyes On Me and Because You're Here.
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This vibrant and cheerful piece was written for Yorkshire Musician and good friend of Tim Knight, Alastair Timmis, as a thank you. He is growing a fine reputation as an up-and-coming recitalist and has been a great supporter of programming Tim Knight's music.
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Vocal & Choral
Volume 10 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder contains works composed between September 1816 and August 1817. Above all, the collaboration with his friend, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, was decisive for Schubert’s development as a lieder composer in these months.
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Britten's much-loved Christmas choral classic is now available for performance in French for the first time. Maurice Budry translated the majority of the work, with Britten’s approval, and it was broadcast by Radio Romande on Christmas Day, 1964, by Chœur de Dames de Lausanne. The three missing movements have now been translated by Agnès Ausseur and Jalal Zaïm, especially for this edition.
Also available for SATB and harp.
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Solo Instrumental
New Rockschool publications available from Debut to Grade 8 for Guitar, Bass and Drums.
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A total of 26 popular songs from Studio Ghibli films, including My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, in both musical notation and tablature. Each song is beautifully and tastefully arranged for solo guitar, with both melody and accompaniment played by one person.
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This book contains a total of 77 lead sheets of music from Studio Ghibli films. Melody lines and chord symbols are provided for all songs. It can be used for playing keyboard instruments and is also suitable for other C instruments such as flute and violin.
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Orchestra & Ensembles
Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Posterity shares Elgar’s positive assessment to the present day: the Serenade op. 20 is not only one of his most popular compositions but is among the most frequently played works in the string orchestra literature. Edited by British Elgar specialist Rupert Marshall-Luck, this classic now appears in Henle Urtext as conducting score, performance material and handy study edition.
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Tchaikovsky spent the summer and autumn of 1880 at his sister’s country estate in Kam’ianka, Ukraine, where he sought peace and relaxation. But after a short time, the desire to work took hold of him again. “I’m sketching a symphony or string quintet just now; I don’t know where it’s going yet,” he wrote to his friend and patroness Nadezhda von Meck. In the end, it turned out to be a Serenade for String Orchestra, which numbers among his most beautiful inspirations and is today a central work in the genre.
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The music of small forms was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré. In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', he took the position of organist in Paris; later working as a church musician and as a teacher. In the summer of 1887, Fauré wrote his Pavane Op. 50, originally intended for a concert providing light entertainment, which soon gained wide popularity as an orchestral setting with and without the chorus added by Fauré. The romantic, slightly melancholic melody is a catchy tune which, thanks to the present arrangement, can now also be performed by a string quartet.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
