Letters of Note 🎼
The substantial historic correspondence of an outstanding Victorian music publisher has recently found a new home at the British Library.…
Q&A with Will Harmer
Earlier this summer we were delighted to announce the publication of a new group of madrigals, written some 450 years…
NEW RECORDING: Roderick Williams sings ‘A Square and Candle-lighted Boat’ by Sarah Cattley
We are delighted that SOMM Records has just released Roderick Williams - Baritone and Susie Allan’s stunning recording of Sarah…
Carnegie Trust Edition Recordings
In 1916, the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust announced the launch of a new ‘Carnegie Edition’, an initiative proposed by Sir…
NYC at 5: Young Composers 3 (2020-21)
Derri Joseph Lewis, Kristina Arakelyan, Anna Disley-Simpson, Alex Ho The third group of young composers to enjoy the NYC’s mentorship…
Back to The Future (RVW)
We’re thrilled to see that our friends over at Dutton Epoch have released the world premiere recordings of Vaughan Williams's…
International Women’s Day 2024 (Young Composers 1, 2018–19)
NYC at 5: Young Composers 2018-19 It is an immense pleasure on International Women’s Day to mark the achievements of…
NYC at 5: Introduction
Introduction Give or take a few weeks, it is five years since we began our association with the National Youth…
Rhian at 80
With pleasure and pride in an association of over 25 years, Stainer & Bell warmly congratulates Rhian Samuel on the…
Rhian at 80: Q&A with Rhian Samuel
In conversation with Angus Smith, Stainer & Bell’s Choral Ambassador
Notable anniversaries in 2024: Stanford & Holst
It is customary to look ahead to composer anniversaries that fall in the next twelve months, and two dates in…
Celebrating Stanford
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of two choral collections by Charles Villiers Stanford, not only…
Up, up and away!
Take your clarinet skills to the next level with Edmund Jolliffe’s Taking Off and Flying High. Formerly published by Spartan…
Fans of Gregoriana, listen up!
There’s great news for fans of Anna Lapwood’s award-winning organ anthology and Stainer & Bell bestseller, Gregoriana. Anna has just…
Q&A with Ben Parry
We are delighted to have issued three new choral pieces this summer by the multi-talented composer, conductor and singer Ben…
In Memoriam Alan Gaunt (1935–2023)
We mourn the passing at the age of 88 of the Reverend Alan Gaunt, minister of the United Reformed Church,…
Welcoming Ben Parry
In the first of several exciting new works by leading choral composer and conductor Ben Parry, we are thrilled to…
Welcoming Tony Britten
We are thrilled to welcome composer, writer and film-maker Tony Britten to our Choral Now series with his beautiful new…
Introducing CelloLid
A Publisher Spotlight CelloLid, a specialist publisher of music for cello, was founded by Mats Lidström, an internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician…
Earth Newborn
The poetry of Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is imbued with a deep love of the countryside, and a care for the…
Welcoming Sebastian Johnson
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,…
Clifton Edition: A New Music Publisher
Stainer & Bell is thrilled to announce its appointment as the exclusive worldwide distributor for a brand-new classical music publishing…
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
Among Vaughan Williams’s earliest settings of poetry by Walt Whitman, and his only one for a cappella chorus, By the Bivouac’s…
A New Vaughan Williams Work Sets Sail
Martin Yates introduces his new realisation and orchestration of The Steersman, now available for the first time: I am always profoundly moved…
See you in Cardiff
We’re really looking forward to exhibiting at the European String Teachers Association (ESTA) International Conference held from 2nd to 6th…
Welcoming Anna Disley-Simpson
We are thrilled to announce the publication Anna Disley-Simpson’s stunning, eight-part choral piece The Way Through the Woods in our…
Meet the Composers at the Expo
We’re looking forward to exhibiting at the Music & Drama Education Expo at the Business Design Centre in London later…
NEW: Dido and Aeneas Vocal Score
Edited under the supervision of the Purcell Society by Bruce Wood The Purcell Society’s major new redaction of Dido and…
A Quatercentenary Byrd Offer
SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY OFFER! To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, justifiably regarded as one of the finest…
Cool Beans
Cool Beans is an eclectic mix of 21 character duets composed by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. The pieces draw on a…
RVW at Down Ampney
On Sunday 11 December I was delighted to visit Down Ampney, the village in which Ralph Vaughan Williams was born,…
Award-winning Gregoriana!
We’re thrilled and honoured that Gregoriana, Anna Lapwood’s fantastic anthology of new compositions for organ, has been awarded New Publication…
Musidoku® is not just for Christmas
Our two little Musidoku® books — think Sudoku with musical symbols instead of numbers — have proved hugely popular Christmas…
Welcoming Derri
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…
Celebrating Vaughan Williams
On 12 October, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, members of the S&B team were thrilled to be invited to a…
Behold! A Vaughan Williams Portrait
The work of award-winning artist Mariusz Kaldowski, an outstanding new portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams was acquired in 2021 for…
The Messiah XI
Eleanor Oldroyd’s recent BBC Radio 4 programme – Perfect Pitch (From Choir Stalls to Cricket Balls) – was a fascinating exploration…
Love is the Answer – FREE download
Last year we published a brand-new, heart-warming carol from the pen of Thomas Hewitt Jones, Love is the Answer for…
Welcoming Richard Allain
More... We're truly thrilled to welcome Richard Allain to our Choral Now series with a beautiful new carol/winter piece —…
Thomas Weelkes: Hidden in Plain Sight
Anticipation is growing ahead of the 400th anniversary next year of the death of William Byrd on 4 July 1623,…
Maurice Greene: Complete Harpsichord Music
The suites, lessons and miscellaneous short pieces for harpsichord by Maurice Greene are an important and much-pirated corpus of eighteenth-century…
New Distribution Agreements
Stainer & Bell is delighted to announce new and exclusive worldwide distribution agreements with three specialist publishers of music for…
Gregoriana for Organ
Twelve chant-based organ pieces by contemporary women composers, for liturgical and concert performance Compiled and edited by Anna Lapwood We’re…
Welcoming Kristina Arakelyan
We're so thrilled to welcome Kristina Arakelyan to our Choral Now series with her beautiful choral love songs for SATB…
Q&A with Shruthi Rajasekar
If you see something that doesn’t look right, speak to staff or text British Transport Police on 61016. We’ll sort…
Sorted.
for unaccompanied SATB voices (with divisions) by Shruthi Rajasekar The security announcement ‘See it. Say it. Sorted.’, promoting vigilance among…
‘Eminent Distinction’: Refugees and Internees in Wartime Britain
At the end of January 1937, Ralph Vaughan Williams sent a letter to Frau Stephanie Pinthus in Nordhausen am Harz…
Q&A with Russell Hepplewhite and Helen Eastman
We’re very excited to welcome Russell Hepplewhite and Helen Eastman to the second in our composer “Q&A” series! Russell and…
Music for Body, Mind and Soul
Spanish Sonata by Sarah Rodgers is the featured work in the first of a series of four programmes...