Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Stainer & Bell are pleased to announce that they are now the publishers to the Purcell Society and will be publishing all new volumes in the Purcell Society Edition and the NEW Purcell Society Edition Companion Series.
Purcell Society Edition
Volume 1 (Ref: PE1)
Henry PURCELL
Three Occasional Odes
Edited Bruce Wood
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2218-4 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-908-5
Hardback
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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.
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PE1 and is now available.
Performing material now available for rental:
Celestial music did the gods inspire [19'] (Ref. HL394)
Soprano,
countertenor, tenor and bass soloists and SATB choir, with two treble
recorders, two oboes (optional), instrumental bass
(theorbo/bassoon/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord
continuo
Great parent, hail! [27'] (Ref. HL396)
Soprano,
countertenor, tenor and bass soloists and SATB choir, with two treble
recorders, two oboes (optional), instrumental bass
(theorbo/bassoon/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord
continuo
Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song) [38'] (Ref. HL395)
Soprano,
countertenor, tenor and bass soloists and SATB choir, with two treble
recorders, two oboes, two trumpets, instrumental bass
(theorbo/bassoon/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord
continuo
Volume 12 (Ref: PE12)
Henry PURCELL
The Fairy Queen
Edited Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2247-4 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-912-2
Hardback
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).
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PE12 and is now available.
Performing material now available for rental:
The Fairy Queen [c.205' complete play, c.130' music only] (Ref. HL390)
Three soprano (or two soprano and one mezzo soprano),
three countertenor, two tenor and two bass soloists *, SATB chorus, with two treble
recorders, two oboes, two trumpets, timpani, instrumental bass
(theorbo/bassoon(s)/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord
continuo
* Minimum numbers of soloists required for a staged performance. For a concert performance, the minimum number of soloists required is two sopranos, two countertenors, one tenor and one bass (but more than one role in the same act will need to be doubled)
Volume 21 (Ref: PE21)
Henry PURCELL
Dramatic Music III
Edited by Margaret Laurie
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2273-3 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-918-4
Hardback
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.
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PE21 and is now available.
Volume 27 (Ref: PE27)
Henry PURCELL
Symphony Songs
Edited Bruce Wood
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2200-9 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-900-9
Hardback
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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. Performing material is now available for sale.
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PE27 and is now available.
Volume 29 (Ref: PE29)
Henry PURCELL
Sacred Music, Part V: Continuo Anthems II
Edited Robert Thompson
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2279-5 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-919-1
Hardback
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.
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PE29 and is now available.
Purcell Society Edition Companion Series
Stainer & Bell are pleased to announce the launch of an important scholarly edition that will make a significant new contribution to the study of music and theatre in Restoration England.
As part of the internationally regarded Purcell Society Edition, the Purcell Society Companion Series presents in modern critical texts – and in many cases for the first time – a varied repertoire of hitherto largely inaccessible work by the composer’s contemporaries, which will both illuminate his own achievement and further our understanding of this flourishing yet complex period of theatrical activity as a whole.
Volume 1 (Ref. PC1)
Louis GRABU
Albion and Albanius. Opera
Edited Bryan White
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2212-2 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-905-4
Hardback
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PC1 and is now available.
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.
Hardback
Volume 2 (Ref. PC2)
John BLOW
Venus and Adonis. Opera
Edited Bruce Wood
ISMN: 979-0-2202-2216-0 ~
ISBN: 978-0-85249-907-8
Hardback
This volume is published in hardback, catalogue ref. PC2 and is now available.
John Blow's pastoral opera Venus and Adonis, the second volume of the 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.
Hardback
Performing Material for Rental or Sale.
Venus and Adonis. Masque. Ed. Bruce Wood [56']
(HL391A - Original Version/HL391B - Revised Version)
For two soprano (or one soprano and one treble), six* treble (or soprano) and bass soloists and SATB Chorus, with two recorders, continuo and strings 3.3.2.2. In addition, there are minor roles for soprano, countertenor, tenor and bass soloists, to be drawn from the chorus. For the Chorus of Huntsmen (ATB), male singers are preferable.
* Recommended number (the Little Cupids).
Material supplied: One full score (Versions 1 and 2), 32 performance scores (conductor, producer, continuo, nine soloists and chorus) and instrumental material
The third volume in the Companion Series, Giovanni Battista Draghi’s From harmony (A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 – the original setting of Dryden’s celebrated poem), edited by Bryan White, is in preparation.
Henry Purcell works published by Stainer & Bell
These titles can be ordered in our online shop where you will also find prices and further information. For a complete list of all works by Purcell found in the above volumes, as well as other collections published by Stainer & Bell download this pdf file.
Complete Catches. Vocal Score (Ref. D86)
Edited by Michael Nyman
Duets, Book 1. Vocal Duets. (Ref. R4129)
Edited by Timmothy Roberts
Duets, Book 2. Vocal Duets. (Ref. 4130)
Edited by Timmothy Roberts
Golden Sonata. Two violins and Keyboard (Ref. R7410)
Edited by Michael Pilkington
Harpsichord Works, Complete. Book 1. Eight Suites (Ref. K21)
Edited by Howard Ferguson
Harpsichord Works, Complete. Book 2. Miscellaneous Pieces (Ref. K22)
Edited by Howard Ferguson
Let us wander. Vocal Duet (Ref. H249)
Edited by Alfred Moffat
Man that is born of a woman (Ref. D31)
SATB and optional Organ
(includes In the midst of life and Thou knowest Lord)
Rejoice in the Lord. (The Bell Anthem)
SATB and Strings (or Organ)
Vocal score (Ref. D32)
String Quartet Parts (Ref. Y19)
String Orchestra Parts 3.3.2.2. (Ref. Y20)
Songs, Book 1 (Ref. B323)
Edited by Peter Wishart and Maureen Lehane
Songs, Book 2 (Ref. B324)
Edited by Peter Wishart and Maureen Lehane
Songs, Book 3 (Ref. B383)
Edited by Peter Wishart and Maureen Lehane
Symphony Songs (Ref. Y241)
Instrumental parts for use with Purcell Society Edition PE27.
