SKU: HH.HH565-SOL

ISBN 9790708185802.

The Marriage of Figaro was performed in Prague in Mozart’s presence, and on the 19th of January 1787 he gave an Academy at the National Theatre at which Symphony No. 38, since universally known under the soubriquet as the Prague, was first performed. Hummel’s arrangement of this symphony is dedicated to His Excellency Baron von Goethe.

SKU: TL.TCL013651

ISBN 9780857363954.

This CD contains recordings of all pieces and exercises featured on Trinity College London's Electronic Keyboard syllabus for Grades 4 and 5, valid from 2015–2018.
The syllabus features a wide variety of musical genres and makes use of a wide range of keyboard functions, voices and styles.
Improvisation pieces contain ad-lib passages to encourage inventiveness, originality and style. These have not been recorded, so students can use the CD as a backing track to practise for these sections.

SKU: ST.MB96

ISBN 9790220223853.

This volume is the first of two intended to extend the coverage of keyboard music in Musica Britannica comprehensively into the first quarter of the 17th century. (The other, MB102, includes material from the two virginal books in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.) The present edition contains music by anonymous and a dozen or so named composers, including the complete keyboard works of Nicholas Carleton, the surviving twenty 'Miserere' canons by Thomas Woodson, and the anonymous 'Pretty ways for young beginners to look on'. The 77 complete pieces are organised by genre, including preludes, plainsong settings, voluntaries, dances and character pieces. Drawing on 22 manuscripts which mostly also transmit music by Byrd and other noted virginalists, this residue of music from these sources shows great diversity and a pleasing level of technical skill and musical interest, sufficient to enhance our wider view of English Renaissance music.

SKU: ST.MB102

ISBN 9790220225123.

Complementary to MB96, the 85 items in MB102 complete the coverage of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book in Musica Britannica. With the exception of four pieces by Sweelinck available elsewhere, MB102 contains all the Fitzwilliam content not otherwise already published in individual MB virginalist-composer collections or in the three anthology volumes, MB1, MB55 and MB66. In addition, there are ten pieces from another important keyboard source in the collection of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, the Tisdale Virginal Book. The volume was a long-time project of the late Christopher Hogwood, and has been brought to completion by his co-editor Alan Brown.