Advanced Sheet Music from Novello Publishing

For oboe and piano. Also includes a part for clarinet in B flat or A.

JS Bach's Choral prelude for Organ, Wachet Auf, has become a favourite of wedding couples for processional or recessional music because of its joyous liveliness and beauty. The cantata Wachet Auf BWV...

Henry Purcell's only Opera proper, Dido and Aeneas is a magnificent example of English Baroque music, with lively dances and passionate aria sections that demonstrate Purcell's masterful compositional...

In the second half of his life, Moeran greatly extended his sensibilities and his musical palate to include more energetic and vigorous rhythms, harmonic colours and tonalities. In the Sonata for Viol...

Buxton Orr's fantasies on famous themes are expert explorations of their source work, rendered as brilliant new composition, as is the virtuoso A Carmen Fantasy. It is equally demanding and rewarding...

The issue of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Thomas Tallis is a vexed one for scholars as the only surviving manuscript is incomplete. In this manifestation, the editors have set the Magnificat an...

Arranged by Arthur Hutchings.

Vocal Score of Giles Swayne's 'Cry' for 28 amplified voices. (SATB) a capella. Duration 78 minutes. Composed in 1978-79, and first performed by the BBC Singers under John Poole.

Rorate Coeli for unaccompanied chorus, was written in 1973 in response to a commission from the National Federation of Music Societies in Great Britain. It was first performed by the Thomas Tallis cho...

The six poems set here are all to be found in '100 Poems on the Underground'. For SATB (divisi) A Cappella.

Carol for SATB Choir A Cappella. From Cantata I composed in 1965.

These Schumann songs, set to poems by Heinrich Heine, are a deeply psychological and disturbing journey, as they reflect more often than not the bitterness of unrequited love. The most cheerful songs...

The Requiem Mass in C Minor, Cherubini's first, was commissioned for the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI by the restored French monarchy. The Requiem was highly admired by the public and cri...

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry with an important composer of the late 19th and early 20th century best known for his hymn Jerusalem, but also widely influential in his compositions and as head of the R...

While Darke composed extensively for Choir and Organ, he wrote many fewer works for solo Organ. The first of the set, St Peter, dedicated to Herbert Howells, is the best known of the three, atmospheri...

The Funeral March is composed in C and proceeds at a grand and stately pace. The Flute duet provides an excellent contrast to the majesty of the piece. Handel's great oratorio of 1739, Saul, was conce...

Stuart MacRae's Piano Sonata was commissioned by the City Music Society and first performed by Philip Fowke at a City Music Society lunchtime concert on 27 October 1998. The composer writes: 'By the...

Sallinen's Sonata For Cello And Piano Op. 86 was commissioned by the Naantali Music Festival, Finland in 2004. It was first performed by Arto Noras and Rolf Gothoni at Naantali Church on 10th June 200...

Edward Elgar's The Dream Of Gerontius is a splendid oratorio for Mezzo-soprano, Tenor and Bass with Chorus and Orchestra. It is based on the epic poem, The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman writ...

These three pieces form a very short instrumental opera, based on the life of James Reid, a bagpiper in Prince Charlie's Jacobite army, who was captured by the English in 1746, and executed after a ju...

The Prelude is a flowing 9/8 song; the four-Voice Fugue follows as the slow movement; the Variations return to the original prelude theme. It is difficult to overstate the importance of Franck's Prelu...

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a prolific composer in almost every field, but he found in the organ the medium best fitted to his genius and temperament. This seems to be proved by the fact that hi...

Edited in five volumes by Wm. A. Little. The Berlin-Krakow manuscripts: Part 2

Bridge's early works those written before the first World War were more late Romantic in style, warmly expansive, than his mature works. The Adagio is a four-Voice fugue of poetic expressiveness that...