Recitative and Air from 'Dido and Aeneas'

Forty-one classic and modern anthems for the church year. This anthology draws on over 180 years of publishing to provide an invaluable resource for parish and cathedral choirs. The selection features many of the leading sacred composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All the anthems are for SATB the majority with organ and some unaccompanied. There is a diversity of style and difficulty. Pieces for every season of the church year and every church occasion are included.

Introit for a Saint's Day or Feast of An Apostle. For SATB Choir and Organ. Introit for a Saint's Day or Feast of An Apostle. For SATB Choir and Organ.

Part for Solo Trumpet.

John Stainer's I Saw The Lord is a beautiful Anthem for Double SATB Choir and organ. This edition features fresh engravings with the Organ part printed on three staves. It also includes a paragraph explaining the historical background and context of the work. John Stainer's I Saw The Lord is a beautiful Anthem for Double SATB Choir and organ. This edition features fresh engravings with the Organ part printed on three staves. It also includes a paragraph explaining the historical background and context of the work.

Setting for Mixed Voice Choir and Organ.

Brahms' celebrated setting of a text by W.G.Rothery is arranged here by John E. West for men's voices.

Anthem for SATB Choir and Organ.

Twenty-two easy keyboard pieces from Guida di Musica .

Muriel Herbert (1897-1984) was a British composer pianist and singer. She studied at the Royal College of Music where she met Charles Stanford and Roger Quilter. She wrote many songs for Voice and Piano in her early life as well as some instrumental and orchestral works but stopped composing after her husband left her in 1939. Her works were largely unappreciated until twenty years after her death but they have now quite rightly become the subject of a keen and enthusiastic revival with a growing fan base. The Lake Of Innisfree was one of her most popular works. It is a setting of a poem by the Irish poet W. B. Yates (1865-1939).

Three Songs Of Ben Jonson arranged for High Voice and Piano.

From Three Concert Studies for the Pianoforte . From Three Concert Studies for the Pianoforte .

In C Major. In C Major.

These four works were composed in 1956 by the former director of Music at George Heriot School Edinburgh.

Geoffrey Bush 's Summer Serenade is a refreshingly enjoyable work written on the wing of inspiration essentially sunny and life-enhancing. The eclectic style is readily diatonic the harmonies never make one shudder and the rich melodic flow is appealingly direct. The settings of an ingenious selection of verse are in the best traditions of British choral writing. Performance time approx. 20 minutes. Made up of 7 parts including Prologue Madrigal Scherzo Dirge Aubade Nocturne and Finale .Orchestration varies between theseparts – they are scored for chorus and orchestra unaccompanied voices or Tenor solo and orchestra. Geoffrey Bush was a British composer organist and scholar of 20th-century English music. His compositions include 5 operas 2 symphonies choral pieces such as his Christmas Cantata and many songs generally in the lieder style.

Scott's Sonata No. 1 For Piano (Op.66) is considered to be one of his finest compositions. Written in 1909 it is noted for its changing time signatures and is said to have influenced Stravinsky. It is scored in four movements: Allegro con spirito - Adagio - Scherzo - Fugue . Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was a British composer pianist and poet. His most popular works which he is largely remembered by today were written in the years preceding the Second World War however he continued to compose prolifically in the face of indifference from the outside world right up until his death at the age of 91. His music ispredominantly in the Romantic style and serves as a tasteful reminder of a bygone age.

One of two pieces composed by Baines under the title Tides . The other The Lone Wreck is also available catalogue number NOV271291.

tune Preludes Series 2 Org. With Or Without Pedals- In presenting this second set of Hymn Tune Preludes the composer has followed the principles adopted in previous volumes in that the pieces based on well known tunes are intended to help fill the need for simple and appropriate music to be played before the service. As before they have been kept well within the range of the average performer and can be played with or without pedals and if necessary on one manual. Keys have been chosen to balance with the corresponding tunes as given in 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' 'The English Hynmnal' 'Songs of Praise' 'The Church Hymnary' and 'The Methodist Hymn Book'. Registration is suggested inoutline only the details being left to the player's discretion.

Yung-Yang is a song for medium Voice with Piano accompaniment. It is based on a ninth century Chinese text which was translated into English in 1916 by Launcelot Cranmer-Byng and set to music in 1919. Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946) was a British composer conductor and educator. He channelled his energetic and creative personality into many musical projects championing the works of Jean Sibelius founding the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and composing many splendid classical pieces. Viewed by his contemporaries as out-of-date his music is now being appreciated as one of the last great contributions from theEnglish Romantic movement.

When The Spring Comes Round (original title in French: Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront) is a song for solo Soprano Voice part of a staged recitation with orchestra ‘Une voix dans ledésert’ (A Voice in the Desert) written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1915. The words are by the Belgian poet Émile Cammaerts and were translated into English by his wife Tita Brand. In this Novello edition the orchestra part has been transcribed into a Piano accompaniment. Many of Sir Edward Elgar ’s works have entered the British and international classicalconcert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations the Pomp and Circumstance Marches concertos for Violin and Cello and two symphonies. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.