Welcoming Claire Victoria Roberts
We are thrilled to welcome composer, vocalist and violinist Claire Victoria Roberts to our Choral Now series with her stunning…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Cool Beans
Cool Beans is an eclectic mix of 21 character duets composed by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. The pieces draw on a…
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…
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 —…
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…
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…
Sorted.
for unaccompanied SATB voices (with divisions) by Shruthi Rajasekar The security announcement ‘See it. Say it. Sorted.’, promoting vigilance among…
All aboard The History Express
The train about to depart from Platform 1 is the 20:22 History Express, calling at The Invention of the World…
Dido and Aeneas: New Critical Edition
In the late eighteenth century, music historians decided, on not much evidence, that Purcell had composed Dido and Aeneas expressly for…
Welcoming Joe Bates
Stainer & Bell is delighted to announce the publication of composer Joe Bates’s new choral piece Some Parts of Us in our Choral…
Top Banana
Review Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell have done it again. Here is another volume that will both delight and inform…
A ‘new’ Sonata by George Dyson
The Cello Sonata by Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) is the most substantial of the composer’s earliest surviving works. Indeed, within…
Welcoming Gareth Treseder
We're absolutely delighted to welcome composer Gareth Treseder to the Stainer & Bell Choral Now catalogue with his latest work…
Russell Knows the Stars
Composer Russell Hepplewhite visits the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (a short walk from home) to introduce his latest choral piece…
NEW PERFORMING EDITION: Ivor Gurney – The Western Playland
Philip Lancaster’s new version of The Western Playland (and of Sorrow) is a revelation of a major work in British music previously…
Henry Purcell: Sacred Music, Part IV: Continuo Anthems I
As the penultimate stage in the reordering of the Society’s edition of Purcell’s anthems, the fourteen items in the new…
Henry Lawes: Sacred Music
The latest volume in the Early English Church Music series features the music of Henry Lawes (1595–1662). Admired by Milton,…
The Shepherds’ Tale
Just published - for SATB, flute, harp or piano, organ and strings Commissioned for the 20th Anniversary of Battersea Choral…
Ian de Massini joins Choral Now
Ian de Massini read Music at King’s College, Cambridge whilst a choral scholar in the famous chapel choir, during which…
Welcoming Shruthi Rajasekar
We're so excited to welcome Shruthi Rajasekar to our Choral Now series with her powerful, moving work did you know…
A Newly Discovered Purcell Song
This new discovery was featured on Front Row, BBC Radio 4 on 5 October.
Welcoming Russell Hepplewhite
We're thrilled to welcome award-winning composer Russell Hepplewhite to our Choral Now series with his atmospheric setting of Sara Teasdale's…
Two minutes with Thomas Hewitt Jones
A 'Composer in Lockdown' interview. Acclaimed composer and all-round-good-guy, Thomas Hewitt Jones discusses his composing process, education vs creativity and…
Welcoming Thomas Hewitt Jones
We're thrilled to welcome award-winning composer Thomas Hewitt Jones into our Choral Now series with two brand new Christmas carols!…
Song of Songs from CODEBREAKER
Just published in our Choral Now series... In 1926, at the age of fifteen, Alan Turing fell in love with…
Can You Hear Me?
Last week, to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, the Choir of Royal Holloway and soprano Laura Wright released a single by…
New Christmas Carols from Peter Gritton
We are delighted introduce Peter Gritton into the Choral Now series, with two brand new Christmas carols just published... Christmas Bells is…
New Title: Into the Tomb
We're thrilled to welcome Philip Lancaster into our Choral Now series, with a new work for SATB unaccompanied (with divisions) Into the…
Unravelling the Mysteries
Marjorie Dobson's latest book Unravelling the Mysteries was published last week just in time for the Hymn Society of Great…
Codebreaker
We're thrilled to announce: James McCarthy’s acclaimed cantata recounting key episodes in the story of Alan Turing, CODEBREAKER is now available…
Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Use of Salisbury
We're delighted to announce two new volumes in the Early English Church Music series have just been published. Edited by…
Mediaeval Carols – REVISED EDITION
A third, revised edition of the popular Musica Britannica series volume 4 has just been published. This is a substantial…
English Keyboard Music 1650–1695: Perspectives on Purcell
The latest volume in the Purcell Society Companion Series is now available. English Keyboard Music 1650–1695: Perspectives on Purcell is…
Restoration Music. Parts now available
Sets of string parts corresponding with Musica Britannica Volume 103, have just been published. Edited by Peter Holman and John Cunningham…