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Escapade - NEW PUBLICATION Luna Alcalay Escapade was written in 2011 at the instigation of Walter Auer, flautist of the Orsolino Wind Quintet, the ensemble to whom the work is dedicated. In musical language chiefly characterized by the transference of small pitch-groups between instruments, to striking colouristic effect, the composer takes us on a journey through four short movements – leading us towards and away from momentary staging-posts en route. Wind quintet

Short Score - REVIEW Stephen Pratt “Stephen Pratt’s Short Score consists of four miniatures similar in aesthetic to Alban Berg’s Four Pieces, Op. 5. Understated gestures created by inventive interplay between the two instruments are used to create an honest emotional statement.” The Clarinet – Journal of the International Clarinet Association Clarinet & piano

Vihuela music transcribed for guitar Luys de Narváez Narváez’s Seys libros del Delphín, published in Valladolid in 1538, contains the earliest purely instrumental sets of variations – diferencias – in the history of music. In this critical edition, all of Narváez’s solo works are transcribed into staff notation for the guitar, the majority of the pieces appearing here for the first time. The easy-to-read score, which is entirely faithful to the original tablature, will open up this magnificent early repertoire to a new generation of performers and teachers. transcr. & ed. Stefan Nesyba

Capriccio - REVIEW Giovanni Paisiello “There is nothing to trouble a good sight-reader (not even the seventh-chords arpeggios which sweep through four octaves requiring alternating hands) and the end result sounds most impressive – it is great fun to play!” Harpsichord & fortepiano | Read the review ed. Adriano Cirillo

Eight variations on “Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton” – REVIEW Joseph Gelinek “Throughout the set we can see the sure hand of a composer who has the felicitous gift of being able to combine rhythmic and melodic phrases successfully. Christopher Hogwood is to be commended for his continual mining of a rich vein of the lesser-known pieces associated with the Viennese masters, resulting in well produced and reasonably priced modern editions.” Harpsichord & fortepiano | Read the review ed. Christopher Hogwood

Sonatas, Op. 5, volume 2 Giovanni Battista Vitali Giovanni Vitali’s set of twelve sonatas Op. 5 for various combinations of strings and continuo, published in 1669, was the Bolognese composer's most ambitious collection of chamber music to date. He most likely wrote it as an application piece for membership of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica, for each sonata has a dedicatory subtitle bearing the name of one of the city’s noblemen. This second volume of Martin Perkins’s scholarly performing edition contains four works – the sonatas for two violins, violone and organ continuo. ed. Martin Perkins

Six sonatas for keyboard Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch Carl Fasch, regarded by a contemporary writer on music as the true successor to C. P. E. Bach (with whom he shared keyboard duties for Frederick the Great), was notoriously reluctant to have his music made public, even asking that much of it should be destroyed. In this first volume of his complete keyboard works, the six sonatas, which appeared in print and were well regarded during the composer's lifetime, show him to be a minor master and an eloquent advocate for the eclectic expressive style then current in Berlin. Two further volumes will present his sets of variations, his unpublished sonatas and an intriguing sequence of “character pieces”, all suitable for performance on the clavichord or the fortepiano. ed. Christopher Hogwood

On Reflection Stephen Pratt On Reflection is a companion piece to the earlier sextet The Miraculous Mandolin (2007), for a similar combination of instruments. But it is somewhat more introspective, as implied by the title, which also refers to the technical processes employed. The first section sets up a contrast between busy linear material and ‘frozen’ chordal passages, both emanating from a single source. The first part of the final section largely develops the quick character, but the piece ends with a chorale-like reworking of the chords. At the centre is a slow section, which perhaps reflects the title most aptly. Contemporary

Two sonatinas for oboe and piano Thomas Attwood Walmisley These two short sonatinas for oboe and piano by 19th-century English composer Thomas Walmisley, now remembered almost exclusively for his church music, offer an early Romantic view of classical form and exploit both instruments ingeniously and with originality. Since the pieces were also published as flute works after the composer’s death, and appear in manuscript for the clarinet, this appealing – and rare – repertoire will be available not only to oboe players, but will successfully meet the programming needs of other wind recitalists. ed. Christopher Hogwood

Stiller Donner for piano Ming Wang “Silent Thunder” is an intriguing zoological phenomenon: elephants are able to communicate with each other ultrasonically, using frequencies that are wholly inaudible to us. Members of the same troop can perceive and react to these deep oscillations even at a distance of 20 km. This mysterious faculty possessed by animals awakened in the composer's mind a musical association linked to the wide sound spectrum of the piano. The resulting 10-minute soundscape demonstrates once again Ming Wang's fine creative imagination and supreme aural and technical skills. Virtuoso contemporary piano music c.10'

Unifying Divisions Nirmali Fenn How do we think in terms of wholes? Unifying Divisions is a social experiment where 17 saxophones divide into groups of 5 solo characters and 4 quartets, uniting to give the illusion of 1 instrument. The unification is achieved through the magnification of a single voice. Seventeen Saxophones

Complete Keyboard Works, volume 1 - REVIEWS Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck “I find the sonatas to be all that Cramer so enthusiastically described, and I unreservedly recommend them as a source of delightfully expressive music for either clavichord or early piano.” The Consort | Read the review “... an excellent start to the planned three-volume Complete Keyboard Works.” British Clavichord Society Newsletter | Read the review “... powerfully original, it is to be hoped that these sonatas will quickly find a place in the repertoires of all serious players and will take their rightful place in concerts.” Clavichord International | Read the review. ed. Christopher Hogwood

Il Gran Mogol - REVIEW Antonio Vivaldi “Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Andrew Woolley, Edition HH have wasted no time in publishing this 'new' concerto in D minor for flute and strings RV431a, 'Il Gran Mogul', in a beautifully clear and informative edition which also contains a hypothetical completion of a related flute concerto fragment in E minor (RV431) - thus giving the traverso player the option to play much of the same material in an easier key, if desired.” The Consort | Read the review ed. Andrew Woolley

Philemon & Baucis - Marionette opera Joseph Haydn Haydn's delightful puppet-opera Philemon und Baucis, based on a mythical tale from Ovid, was written for a visit to Esterháza by the Empress Maria Theresa in 1773. The present version, created for Christopher Leith's Little Angel Theatre production at the 2003 Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, is now available in this new practical performing edition and will attract both amateur and professional opera groups alike. ed. Trevor Pinnock

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