Frédéric Chopin’s 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild demonic in tone and there is little about them that is joke-like despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo Robert Schumann asked: “how should seriousness be attired when even a ‘joke’ is veiled in black?”. Now that the Scherzi nos. 1–4 have been published in revised stand-alone editions G. Henle Publishers is now offering all four in paperback and hardback in an edition that reflects the current state of Chopin research. Both the footnotes and the extensive CriticalReport on the Internet offer detailed information on the familiar topic of “Chopin variants” and on all the textual problems they raise. This is Chopin in top form!

Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor

Fanfare of Praise

OVERTURE TO ORFEO

Christmas Troika

Polonaise Militaire

Allegro in Mondo

With a graceful gift for lyrical vocal writing English composer Roger Quilter (1877-1953) created a rich body of art songs. Very few composers working in English have matched his achievement of a living body of beloved relevant literate repertoire. The strong melodies and natural phrasing make his compositions perfect literature for the progressing singer. There has never before this publication been a significant collection of Quilter. This new editionconveniently and economically collects 55 songs all in clear new music engravings and in two keys (with original keys noted). Many of the songs have never been published in transposition before this edition. The collectioncontains several complete song sets or cycles including To Julia Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set) Seven Elizabethan Lyrics Three Songs of William Blake Five Shakespeare Songs (SecondSet) and others. 232 pages.

Trio Notturno

Tribute to Charles Strouse

Concerto for Three

We Need a Little Christmas

Night on the Streets of Madrid

Luminos Op. 16a

Emmanuel

Viva Rossini (from The Barber of Seville)

Two Mozart Canons

Cantate Jubilate!

In the Bleak Midwinter

Echo