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Bainton, Edgar: Sonata for Cello and Piano Ref: H460

Never before published, Bainton's four-movement cello sonata is a substantial work in the tradition of Ireland, Bax and other late-Romantic composers for the instrument. Memorable themes and a colourful piano part convey a powerfully emotional narrative that will be welcomed by performers as a remarkable new addition to their repertoire.

Price: £12.95

Carse, Adam: The Winton Suite. Score Ref: Y249

Reissued by popular demand, Adam Carse's Winton Suite is among the many treasures to be found in the Naxos CD series of English string miniatures, where it appears in volume six, together with music by Holst, Purcell and Warlock.

Standing worthily beside more familiar pieces for string orchestra such as Elgar's Serenade and Parry's Lady Radnor Suite, it is a five-movement work in a vigorous classical form that balances stirring fast music with lyrical, reflective passages.

It will have a wide currency among music lovers in general, and will appeal particularly to string specialists in search of repertoire for summer schools and educational courses, especially those involving young musicians whose technical limitations do not prevent them from tackling repertoire of genuine substance and stature.

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Price: £9.50

Bridge, Frank: Phantasy in F sharp minor. Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano Ref: H472

Score and Parts

Price: £17.50

Carse, Adam: The Winton Suite. Parts Ref: Y250

Set of string parts (4.4.3.3.2)

Price: £30.00

Croft, William: Four Sonatas for Two Violins and Continuo Ref: Y268

Edited by H. Diack Johnstone

Score and Parts

Performing edition corresponding with MB88.

Price: £28.50

Croft, William: Sonata in E major for Four Violins and Continuo Ref: Y266

Edited by H. Diack Johnstone

Score and Parts

Performing edition corresponding with MB88.

Price: £15.00

Croft, William: Three Sonatas for Violin and Continuo Ref: Y270

Edited by H. Diack Johnstone

Performing edition corresponding with MB88.

Price: £20.00

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Earnshaw, Alfred: Tarantella Op. 44, No 4 for Cello and Piano Ref: H467

A highly respected cello teacher and performer, Alfred Earnshaw counted among his peers such notable twentieth-century composers of music for young cellists as Adam Carse and W. H. Squire. His Tarantella for cello and piano features on Children's Cello the delightful collection of cello miniatures recorded by Steven Isserlis and pianist Stephen Hough on a recent BIS recording (BISCD1562). Earnshaw commanded a fluent, graceful idiom ideally suited to inspire beginners with real musical values, and the piece combines open-string and first-position playing with the flair and character of an impressive recital item.

Price: £4.25

Elizabethan Consort Music: Sixteen "In Nomines" Ref: Y225

Set of String Parts corresponding with selected pieces from Musica Britannica Volumes 44 and 45.

Edited by Paul Doe.

Price: £20.00

Hayes, Morgan: Dances on a Ground Ref: Y248

Score and parts

Favoured by English composers from Purcell to Vaughan Williams and Britten, the ground-bass form receives a contemporary makeover in Morgan Hayes's Dances on a Ground. Artfully four-square, a cello ostinato stays stubbornly true to its original thoughts. Meanwhile, above it a capricious ensemble of two violins and viola swaggers its way through flights of melody and jumpy pizzicati to an ecstatic conclusion. Commissioned by Bromsgrove Concerts with funding provided by Arts Council England, Dances on a Ground was first performed by the innovative Smith Quartet at the Artrix, Bromsgrove, on 27 February 2009.

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Price: £9.50

Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), two Basses (Viols) and Organ Ref: Y218

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 26 (MB26).

Price: £20.00

Jenkins, John: Thirty-two Airs. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), two Basses (Viols) and Organ Ref: Y242

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 26 (MB26).

In the output of the long-lived 17th-century composer John Jenkins, the 32 'Ayres' for two trebles, two basses and organ have a special place. They were probably composed during the English Civil War, while the composer was in East Anglia, and his royalist patrons were subject to harassment by Parliamentarian forces. Though one of the pieces, 'Newark Siege', is a rare instance of programmatic music in Jenkins's output, the pieces in general are far removed from the lightweight dance idioms of the time, being full of contrapuntal interplay inspired perhaps by the consort airs of the court composer William Lawes.

The four parts retain original note values, and correspond to the edition in Musica Britannica MB36, though the bass parts have alto clefs for the higher passages. The organ part, not included with the instrumental material, is played from full score in the parent volume.

Price: £24.50

Samuel, Rhian: Dance of the Curlews. Two Harps Ref: Y245

[Standard: Advanced]

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Dance of the Curlews was written at the request of harpist Skaila Kanga for her students at the Royal Academy of Music, London. It is an erratic dance in irregular metres, one harp answering the other until a climax in 5/4 is reached. In a contrasting central section, the instruments work together to create a little skipping melody as well as its quiet, steady accompaniment. This too rises to a 5/4 climax before the return of the first material which eventually dies away. Throughout the piece, each harp has its own mode or 'scale'; though the modes are quite similar, at times they produce marked harmonic clashes. This is yet another way in which the piece explores unrelentingly the relationship of one instrument to the other.

Price: £8.50

Samuel, Rhian: Emerging (lightly). Solo Viola and Chamber Ensemble Ref: Y244

Solo Viola and Flute, Clarinet in B flat, Two Violins, Cello and Harp

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Commissioned by Mobius for its tenth anniversary project, and first performed by them at the Wigmore Hall on 22 March 2008, Emerging (lightly) is a showcase for solo viola, flute, clarinet, harp, two violins and cello. The music is fleet and light, concerned with the developing relationship between two contrasting ideas that is mediated by the solo instrument. Writing in The Times, Richard Morrison praised Emerging (lightly) for its musical argument: 'Here the viola was the still centre of a quicksilver polyphonic whirl, before intoning a haunting folk-like tune over an oasis of calm G major. The impression was of a serene character quelling fractious colleagues. Intriguing and stimulating ...'

Price: £20.50

Samuel, Rhian: Far across the sea (Ymhell dros y mor). Solo Harp Ref: Y259

[Standard: Intermediate]

'Far Across the Sea' (Ymhell dros y môr) is the latest instrumental work from a composer noted for her original and sensitive writing for harp and harp ensemble.

In this gentle solo, what sounds like a folksong - and a very fine one - is in fact a newly composed tune, crafted with artful simplicity. But as the music journeys further from its characteristically Welsh opening, teasing out new suggestions from the material, the sense of nostalgia becomes definitely more contemporary than traditional, though the uplifting conclusion restores the tone of bardic rhetoric.

This work would be a rewarding item for players of intermediate standard, and was recommended for the under 18 category of the 2009 Wales International Harp Festival.

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Price: £5.50

Two Eighteenth-Century Pieces Ref: H468

[Standard: Intermediate]

Arranged for Double Bass and Piano by H Samuel Sterling

Rameau: Tambourin
Giordani: Larghetto

The lively Tambourin by Rameau is among the most popular of baroque instrumental pieces, and in H. Samuel Sterling's idiomatic arrangement for double bass and piano it forms a welcome addition to the bassist's repertoire. Giordani's stately Larghetto is an ideal counterweight, and an exercise in sustained, expressive playing that is included in the Associated Board Grade 6 syllabus for the instrument.

Price: £4.75

Ward, John: Oxford Fantasias/Two-part Ayres Ref: Y221

Set of Parts
Edited by Ian Payne. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 83 (MB83).

Price: £24.50

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