Celebrating Stanford
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of two choral collections by Charles Villiers Stanford, not only…
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of two choral collections by Charles Villiers Stanford, not only…
Take your clarinet skills to the next level with Edmund Jolliffe’s Taking Off and Flying High. Formerly published by Spartan…
There’s great news for fans of Anna Lapwood’s award-winning organ anthology and Stainer & Bell bestseller, Gregoriana. Anna has just…
We are delighted to have issued three new choral pieces this summer by the multi-talented composer, conductor and singer Ben…
We mourn the passing at the age of 88 of the Reverend Alan Gaunt, minister of the United Reformed Church,…
In the first of several exciting new works by leading choral composer and conductor Ben Parry, we are thrilled to…
We are thrilled to welcome composer, writer and film-maker Tony Britten to our Choral Now series with his beautiful new…
A Publisher Spotlight CelloLid, a specialist publisher of music for cello, was founded by Mats Lidström, an internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician…
The poetry of Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is imbued with a deep love of the countryside, and a care for the…
We are delighted to announce the publication of Sebastian Johnson’s award-winning Norwich Service, for SATB and organ, in our Choral Now series. The mystical,…
Stainer & Bell is thrilled to announce its appointment as the exclusive worldwide distributor for a brand-new classical music publishing…
Among Vaughan Williams’s earliest settings of poetry by Walt Whitman, and his only one for a cappella chorus, By the Bivouac’s…
Martin Yates introduces his new realisation and orchestration of The Steersman, now available for the first time: I am always profoundly moved…
We’re really looking forward to exhibiting at the European String Teachers Association (ESTA) International Conference held from 2nd to 6th…
We are thrilled to announce the publication Anna Disley-Simpson’s stunning, eight-part choral piece The Way Through the Woods in our…
We’re looking forward to exhibiting at the Music & Drama Education Expo at the Business Design Centre in London later…
Edited under the supervision of the Purcell Society by Bruce Wood The Purcell Society’s major new redaction of Dido and…
SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY OFFER! To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, justifiably regarded as one of the finest…
Cool Beans is an eclectic mix of 21 character duets composed by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. The pieces draw on a…
On Sunday 11 December I was delighted to visit Down Ampney, the village in which Ralph Vaughan Williams was born,…
We’re thrilled and honoured that Gregoriana, Anna Lapwood’s fantastic anthology of new compositions for organ, has been awarded New Publication…
Our two little Musidoku® books — think Sudoku with musical symbols instead of numbers — have proved hugely popular Christmas…
We’re truly excited to welcome Derri Joseph Lewis to the Stainer & Bell catalogue with his choral work Something Exciting, written for the National Youth Choirs…
On 12 October, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, members of the S&B team were thrilled to be invited to a…
The work of award-winning artist Mariusz Kaldowski, an outstanding new portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams was acquired in 2021 for…
Eleanor Oldroyd’s recent BBC Radio 4 programme – Perfect Pitch (From Choir Stalls to Cricket Balls) – was a fascinating exploration…
Last year we published a brand-new, heart-warming carol from the pen of Thomas Hewitt Jones, Love is the Answer for…
More... We're truly thrilled to welcome Richard Allain to our Choral Now series with a beautiful new carol/winter piece —…
Anticipation is growing ahead of the 400th anniversary next year of the death of William Byrd on 4 July 1623,…
The suites, lessons and miscellaneous short pieces for harpsichord by Maurice Greene are an important and much-pirated corpus of eighteenth-century…
Stainer & Bell is delighted to announce new and exclusive worldwide distribution agreements with three specialist publishers of music for…
Twelve chant-based organ pieces by contemporary women composers, for liturgical and concert performance Compiled and edited by Anna Lapwood We’re…
We're so thrilled to welcome Kristina Arakelyan to our Choral Now series with her beautiful choral love songs for SATB…
If you see something that doesn’t look right, speak to staff or text British Transport Police on 61016. We’ll sort…
for unaccompanied SATB voices (with divisions) by Shruthi Rajasekar The security announcement ‘See it. Say it. Sorted.’, promoting vigilance among…
At the end of January 1937, Ralph Vaughan Williams sent a letter to Frau Stephanie Pinthus in Nordhausen am Harz…
We’re very excited to welcome Russell Hepplewhite and Helen Eastman to the second in our composer “Q&A” series! Russell and…
The train about to depart from Platform 1 is the 20:22 History Express, calling at The Invention of the World…
In the late eighteenth century, music historians decided, on not much evidence, that Purcell had composed Dido and Aeneas expressly for…
Stainer & Bell is delighted to announce the publication of composer Joe Bates’s new choral piece Some Parts of Us in our Choral…
When I started to assemble a programme of music with the aim of helping choirs in their planning of Vaughan…
Review Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell have done it again. Here is another volume that will both delight and inform…
The Cello Sonata by Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) is the most substantial of the composer’s earliest surviving works. Indeed, within…
We are delighted to have published a major new anthem by Gareth Treseder for SATB double choir and organ, Come,…
From the Stainer & Bell Archive: Augener’s Edition Catalogue 1928 BACKGROUND As far as amateur musicians were concerned, Augener were,…
We're absolutely delighted to welcome composer Gareth Treseder to the Stainer & Bell Choral Now catalogue with his latest work…
Last month, we explored the lives and renaissance of two 19th-century composers, Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann (‘Reputation’). With International…
Composer Russell Hepplewhite visits the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (a short walk from home) to introduce his latest choral piece…
In these times of national lockdown and severely limited social activity, many of us have come to appreciate the small,…