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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Opera Ref: PC2

Edited by Bruce Wood

John Blow's pastoral opera Venus and Adonis, the second volume of the Purcell Society Edition Companion Series, presents another key work from the decade of the 1680s, which was an important focus of transition between the pre-Restoration masque and the genres of opera and semi-opera. Long recognised as influential far beyond its modest scope, this delightful work is newly edited by the distinguished 17th-century scholar Bruce Wood, with the original and the revised version of the work printed in parallel text on facing pages - the first time an opera has ever been presented in this way. Full performing material for the opera, including single-version scores, is in preparation.
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Butterworth, George: Orchestral Works (XCII) Ref: MB92

Edited by Peter Ward Jones

In his brief career George Butterworth (1885–1916) composed only a small quantity of orchestral works, but what he wrote has never subsequently been absent from the repertoire. The two English Idylls, the Rhapsody 'A Shropshire Lad' and the idyll The Banks of Green Willow are, with the music of his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams and of Gustav Holst, among the most exquisite statements of the English folk-song idiom. This complete and authoritative collection includes an earlier version of The Banks of Green Willow, and a fragment of an Orchestral Fantasia. Work in progress in 1914 when Butterworth enlisted to serve in the Great War, it suggests the composer setting out in a bolder direction, perhaps inspired by the example of Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony.
Performing material is in preparation.

First published in 2012. Hardback

Price: £86.00

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Croft: Canticles and Anthems with Orchestra (XCI) Ref: MB91

Edited by Donald Burrows

William Croft's career as the leading native-born composer of English church music was established in the period between the death of Purcell and the arrival of Handel in London. His education took place among musicians from Purcell's circle, and his style was modified by the influence of Handel's 'Utrecht' Te Deum and Jubilate of 1713. All the music in this volume was composed for various royal church services that took place between 1709 and 1720, in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace and in St Paul's Cathedral. The contents include the Te Deum and Jubilate Deo, sung at the coronation of George I, and the anthems The Lord is a sun and a shield, O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name, O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
First published in 2011. Hardback

Price: £88.00

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Draghi: From Harmony from Heav'nly Harmony (A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687). Ref: PC3

Edited by Bryan White

Never previously published, though surviving in no fewer than five manuscript copies, Draghi’s A Song for St Cecilia's Day of 1687 impressed his contemporaries, and merits admiration from modern audiences for its intrinsic musical qualities and as a crucial reference point for English music of the period. It is by far the largest of Draghi’s surviving works; its rich Italianate scoring includes a pair of trumpets (their first known appearance in an English choral work), and features concerto-like contrasts between voices and instruments. Greatly expanding on its models of court and Cecilian ode, From Harmony testifies both to Draghi’s reputation amongst his English contemporaries, and to his influence in style, form and instrumentation on the composer of Hail! bright Cecilia and The Yorkshire Feast Song (included in the new PE1) in particular.

Price: £55.00

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Fayrfax, Robert: Regali, Albanus and Sponsus amat sponsam Ref: EC53

Edited by Roger Bray
This volume brings to a conclusion a series devoted to Masses and associated pieces composed by Robert Fayrfax, also featured in EECM volumes 43 and 45. It includes Fayrfax’s well-known Masses Regali and Albanus, as well as a reconstruction of his fragmentary, possibly nuptial, Mass Sponsus amat sponsam. Although some of the manuscript sources were copied many years later, these works date collectively from the years immediately preceding and following the turn of the sixteenth century, and as the editor demonstrates in his introduction, they show the composer’s mastery of largescale proportional planning.
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Grabu, Louis: Albion and Albanius. Opera Ref: PC1

Edited Bryan White

Albion and Albanius is among the first operas in English, written to a libretto by John Dryden, and produced at the Dorset Garden Theatre, London, on 3 June 1685. Composed by the erstwhile Master of the King's Musick to Charles II, the score is of particular interest as representing the French style of Lully, unusual in English music at the time, and is in striking contrast to the score for Dryden's sequel to the work, King Arthur, with music by Purcell.
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Purcell, Henry: Sacred Music, Part V: Continuo Anthems II Ref: PE29

Edited by Robert Thompson

This volume continues the reordering of the Society's edition of Purcell's anthems, under which all the large-scale verse anthems with strings will be found in Volumes 13 (in preparation) and 14 and 17 (already published); all the verse anthems with organ in Volumes 28 (in preparation) and 29; and the stile antico anthems and the Latin motets in Volume 32 (in preparation). All eleven pieces in the present volume were probably composed for the Chapel Royal, and all appear to belong to Purcell's later years. Four of them are explicitly dated – the earliest 1687 – in an authoritative source which was not available to previous editors of the music: a score-book in the hand of the celebrated bass singer John Gostling, whose cavernous low register Purcell exploited for its dramatic effect in some of his finest compositions for the Chapel.
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Purcell, Henry: Symphony Songs Ref: PE27

Edited Bruce Wood

A collection of five cantatas and three vocal duets, plus In a deep vision's intellectual scene ('The Complaint') for two sopranos, bass and continuo, these nine symphony songs are similar in style and structure to their sacred counterparts, the symphony anthems, and include works to texts by Charles Howe, Abraham Cowley and Anon.
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Purcell, Henry: Dramatic Music III Ref: PE21

Edited Margaret Laurie

Vocal and Instrumental Music for the Stage, Part III

Purcell began writing for the stage in 1680. His work for the two London theatre companies (which merged in 1682, but which in 1695 split once more into two competing factions) constituted an increasingly important aspect of his creative activities in the late 1680s, and became exceptionally fruitful in the last six years of his life, encompassing not merely his four great dramatic operas but also a prodigious quantity of music for more modest stage pieces.

The productions for which the music is included in this volume are: Oedipus (1692), Oroonoko (1695), Pausanias (1696), Regulus (1692), Rule a wife and have a wife (1693), Sir Anthony Love (1690), Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681), Sophonisba (?1685), The Old Batchelour (1693), The Richmond Heiress (1693), The Rival Sisters (1695), The Spanish Fryar (1695), The Tempest (1695), The Virtuous Wife (1695), The Wives Excuse (1691), Theodosius (1680), and Tyrannick Love (1694).

The original Purcell Society edition of this volume, edited by Alan Gray and published in 1917, has long been out of print. This comprehensive new edition – the only one available of most of the music – is based on a fresh examination of all the surviving materials, including newly discovered manuscript sources, carried out by one of the greatest living authorities on Purcell’s dramatic music.
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Purcell, Henry: The Fairy Queen Ref: PE12

Edited Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock

Presented in a highly praised new production by Glyndebourne Opera in 2009, this edition of Purcell's third semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, offers a new and definitive version of words and music prepared by two leading scholars in the field. The playtext, anonymously adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is printed in full, and the role of the various sources, and the relationship of the manuscript theatre score to the printed word-books of 1692 and 1693, are thoroughly reappraised. The other sources include music manuscripts which have not previously been examined, and which prove to have a significant bearing on the musical text. Full account is taken of the varied instrumental resources and conventions accessible to the Restoration composer, reflected in the multi-purpose performing material for the edition which is available for rental (HL390).
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Purcell, Henry: Three Occasional Odes Ref: PE1

Edited Bruce Wood

In addition to Celestial music and Great Parent, hail!, formerly in Miscellaneous Odes and Cantatas which is now replaced by PE27 Symphony Songs, PE1 contains The Yorkshire Feast Song, Of old, when heroes thought it base, which was the inaugural volume of the series, published in 1878 and edited by a founder-member of the society, W. H. Cummings. The first English score with full Baroque instrumentation, including trumpets and oboes, it is a consummate display of orchestral mastery, and represents the composer’s first response to Giovanni Battista Draghi’s 1687 setting of Dryden's Cecilian Ode From Harmony. Performing material is in preparation.
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Ravenscroft: Rounds, Canons and Songs from Printed Sources (XCIII) Ref: MB93

Edited by John Morehen and David Mateer

This is the first complete edition of the rounds, canons and songs from Ravenscroft's four principal publications: Pammelia, Deuteromelia, Melismata and A Briefe Discourse. Thomas Ravenscroft (c.1582–c.1635) was a collector, editor and theorist as well as a composer, whose work was esteemed in his own lifetime and is valued today for its insights into the popular music of the period. Rounds and canons in this collection are all presented in resolved form, and the variety of subjects includes drinking songs, hunting songs and four songs in West Country dialect, as well as Latin-texted material. It is hoped that performers may be inspired to breathe new life into a repertoire that sheds fascinating light on a hitherto neglected area of Elizabethan music-making.

First published in 2012. Hardback

Price: £90.00

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Sheppard, John: Hymns, Psalms, Antiphons and other Latin Polyphony Ref: EC54

Edited by Magnus Williamson
This is an important addition to the pair of consecutive EECM volumes of John Sheppard's Latin compositions for the Use of Salisbury published in the 1970s. Although he had evidently mastered the forms of Mass and votive antiphon, the composer is at his most characteristic in his settings of the plainsong melodies which form the bedrock of the Sarum liturgy. These account for most of the contents of this volume, together with free-composed settings of Biblical texts and a small corpus of devotional polphony, most of it fragmentary. In general, textural richness is cultivated in preference to long arcs of melisma, and perfect time is favoured over imperfect, creating a directness of expression that seems to typify mid-Tudor polyphony. The format of this volume follows EECM's house style for post-Reformation composers.
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Yonge: Musica Transalpina (1588) Ref: EM42

Edited by David Greer

This is the first ever complete published edition of a major madrigal collection that is essential to our understanding of the fruitful interaction of Renaissance Italian and English music.

In four, five and six voices, the 57 pieces of Musica Transalpina include 51 madrigals by Marenzio, Palestrina and others, the two parts of Byrd's 'La virginella', and four French chansons. Uniquely, the anthology also features singing translations of the original poems from the Italian into the vernacular, for which it was widely admired and circulated. As a printed source from which composers could learn the madrigal style and aesthetic, it was hugely influential in inspiring the 'golden age' of Tudor and Jacobean vocal music.

An important addition to The English Madrigalists series, Musica Transalpina of 1588 is not only of great scholarly interest but is also an outstanding addition to the repertoire that will delight contemporary singers no less than it enthralled those Elizabethans who first responded with such enthusiasm to its fine music and accessible 'Englished' texts.

CONTENTS
Madrigals for four voices
1 Noë Faignient - These that be certain signs of my tormenting
2 Giovanni de Macque - The fair Diana never more revived
3 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Joy so delights my heart and so relieves me
4 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - False Love, now shoot and spare not
5 Baldassare Donato - O Grief, if yet my grief be not believed
6 Baldassare Donato - As in the night we see the sparks revived
7 Philippe de Monte - In vain he seeks for beauty that excelleth
8 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - What meaneth Love to nest him
9 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sweet Love, when hope was flow'ring
10 Marc'Antonio da Pordenon - Lady, that hand of plenty
11 Giaches de Wert - Who will ascend to heav'n, and there obtain me
12 Cornelis Verdonck - Lady, your look so gentle

Madrigals for five voices
13 -14 Philippe de Monte - From what part of the heav'n, from what example
- Part II, In vain he seeks for beauty that excelleth
15 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - In ev'ry place I find my grief and anguish
16 -18 Luca Marenzio - Thyrsis to die desired
- Part II, Thyrsis that heat refrained
- Part III, Thus these two lovers fortunately died
19 Orlando di Lasso - Susanna fair, sometime of love requested
20 Alfonso Ferrabosco - Susanna fair, sometime of love requested
21 Noë Faignient - When shall I cease lamenting?
22 Luca Marenzio - I must depart all hapless
23 -24 Alfonso Ferrabosco - I saw my lady weeping, and Love did languish
- Part II, Like as from heav'n
25 Giovanni Ferretti - So gracious is thy self, so fair, so framed
26 Giovanni Ferretti - Cruel! unkind! my heart thou hast bereft me
27 Luca Marenzio - What doth my pretty darling?
28 -29 Stefano Felis - Sleep, sleep, mine only jewel
- Part II, Thou bring'st her home full nigh me
30 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sound out, my voice, with pleasant tunes recording
31 Luca Marenzio - Liquid and wat'ry pearls Love wept full kindly
32 Orlando di Lasso - The nightingale, so pleasant and so gay
33 Giovanni Ferretti - Within a greenwood sweet of myrtle savour
34 Rinaldo del Mel - Sometime, when hope relieved me, I was contented
35 Alfonso Ferrabosco - Rubies and pearls and treasure
36 Alfonso Ferrabosco - O sweet kiss, full of comfort
37 Alfonso Ferrabosco - Sometime my hope full weakly
38 Lelio Bertani - Lady, that hand of plenty
39 Girolamo Conversi - My heart, alas, why dost thou love thine enemy?
40 Alfonso Ferrabosco - Lady, if you so spite me 160
41 Giovanni Battista Pinello - When I would thee embrace (Cantio rustica)
42 Alfonso Ferrabosco - Thyrsis enjoyed the graces
43 Alfonso Ferrabosco - The nightingale, so pleasant and so gay
44 -45 William Byrd - The fair young virgin is like the rose untainted
- Part II, But not so soon: from green stock where it growed

Madrigals for six voices
46 Luca Marenzio - I will go die for pure love
47 Alfonso Ferrabosco - These that be certain signs of my tormenting
48 -49 Alfonso Ferrabosco - So far from my delight, what cares torment me
- Part II, She only doth not feel it
50 Anonymous - Lo, here my heart in keeping
51 Luca Marenzio - Now must I part, my darling
52 -53 Girolamo Conversi - Zephyrus brings the time that sweetly scenteth
- Part II, But with me, wretch, the storms of woe persever
54 -55 Alfonso Ferrabosco - I was full near my fall, and hardly 'scaped
- Part II, But as the bird that in due time espying
56 -57 Luca Marenzio - I sung sometime the freedom of my fancy
- Part II, Because my love, too lofty and too despiteful

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