String Trio (V1, V2, Cello) and continuo

SKU: HH.HH587-FSP

Composed by Frederich Ernest Fisher. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH587-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH587-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213024.

Fish er’s Op. 2 set is externally very similar to its Op. 1 predecessor in its combinations of movement types and musical language, but now has an added spaciousness and audacity born of greater maturity. Everything is wonderfully blended: the fugal movements are melodious; the ‘singing allegros’ are harmonically rich and contrapuntally charged; the dance-like movements, full of happy surprises, fizz and purr. Op. 2 appeared in print only in the year following Fisher’s death. Surprisingly in the circumstances, the level of accuracy in the engraved parts matched the high standard set by Op. 1. This would have gratified the composer, who was so evidently a perfectionist in all he undertook.

String Trio (V1, V2, Cello) and continuo

SKU: HH.HH586-FSP

Composed by Frederich Ernest Fisher. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH586-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH586-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213017.

Sain t Pancras refers to the original name of the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden, the Netherlands, where Emma is composer in residence.

Soprano voice & piano

SKU: HH.HH602-FSC

Composed by Timothy Raymond. Full score. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH602-FSC. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH602-FSC).

ISBN 9790708213178.

Part I explores themes of love, regretting its loss and sometime futility. Part II, opening with the lightest song in the work, rapidly darkens to a nightmarish mood and concludes with the sonnet – fourteen lines – which, paraphrased, gives the work its title. Its succinct expression of the philosophical and technical dilemmas of the poet, as she struggles to put the violent and demonic tyranny of existential Disorder into the Order of the poem, is reminiscent of the age-old conflict of Dionysus and Apollo: the archetype which has underpinned so much artistic endeavour.

Bass Voice, 2 violins, basso continuo

SKU: HH.HH590-FSP

Composed by Giuseppe Aldrovandini. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH590-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH590-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213055.

The ten motets (Concerti sacri) for solo voice, violins and continuo making up his Op. 3 (1703) are among his most attractive compositions, standing on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel canto and the progressive trends represented by Alessandro Scarlatti and, later, Antonio Vivaldi. The two motets for bass voice concluding the set delight through their euphony and the sheer swagger of Aldrovandini’s writing for the voice.

Two solo violins, strings & continuo

SKU: HH.HH591-FSC

Composed by Michele Mascitti. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH591-FSC. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH591-FSC).

ISBN 9781914137242.

Ordi nary violin sonatas formed the backbone of the series of ten collections that the Italian violinist Michel Mascitti (1663/4–1760), born in southern Italy but permanently resident in Paris from 1703, committed to print between 1704 and 1738. His Op. 7 (1727) opens with eight such sonatas but ends with four concertos for strings in six parts that, alongside a collection of concertos for five flutes (!) by J.B. de Boismortier published in the same year, inaugurate the proud tradition of concertos created on French soil. Amazingly, Mascitti’s concertos have been neglected not merely by publishers and performers but also by commentators. In particular, the first two concertos display great musical merit in an original idiom that combines Italian and French influences in a very personal way. Further, their Italianate elements juxtapose features familiar from the concertos of Corelli, Mascitti’s reputed teacher, with ones more usually associated with Vivaldi. Both concertos are laden with emotion, albeit never at the expense of the polish and attention to detail that are the hallmark of Mascitti’s craft.