SKU: ST.B945

ISBN 9790220224393.

Rounds and Canons from Thomas Ravenscroft's Collections

Sacred and secular rounds and canons in Latin and in English from the collections of the 17th-century editor and theorist Thomas Ravenscroft, on a variety of subjects such as drinking, hunting and street cries: thirty-five pieces for three to eleven voices.

CONTENTS
For Three Voices
Follow me quickly
Hey ho! To the greenwood now let us go
I am a-thirst, what should I say?
I pray you, good mother
New oysters
Now God be with old Simeon
Now kiss the cup, cousin, with courtesy
O praise the Lord, ye that fear Him
Pietas omnium virtutum
The merry nightingale
Well fare the nightingale

For Four Voices
Ascendit Christus in coelum
Blow thy horn, thou jolly hunter
Descendit Christus de coelo
Fa, mi, fa, re, la, mi
Farewell, mine own sweet heart
Hey, down a down
Miserere mei Deus
To Portsmouth it is a gallant town

For Five Voices
Keep well your ray, my lads
Sing you now after me
Universa transeunt
Verbum Domini manet in aeternum
Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi
White wine and sugar is good drink for me

For Six Voices
Benedic, Domine, nobis his donis tuis
Domine Fili Dei vivi miserere nostri
Joy in the gates of Jerusalem
Laudate nomen Domini (I)
Now thanked be the great god Pan

For Seven Voices
Laudate nomen Domini (II)

For Eight Voices
Let's have a peal for John Cook's soul

For Nine Voices
Delicta quis intelligit?
Hey ho, what shall I say?

For Ten or Eleven Voices
Sing we now merrily.

SKU: ST.EC16

ISBN 9790220205927.

To the two masses in the first volume of the series, this collection adds three further masses from the Forrest-Heyther partbooks. It contains the 6-part Mass Jesu Christe by Thomas Ashewell, and two 5-part works: the Resurrexit Dominus Mass by John Norman, and the Christe Jesu Mass by William Rasar.

SKU: ST.Y346

ISBN 9790220225321.

Among the most famous of twentieth-century art songs, Sea Fever has been imaginatively recreated for solo piano by Roderick Williams, whose accomplishments as a master of English lieder are matched by a composer's ear for the latent potential of an existing work. In this case, the inspiration was the playing of the dedicatee, the notable British pianist Maria Marchant, and the suggestion of Bruce Phillips of the John Ireland Trust for a 'free arrangement' in the manner of Liszt. In fact, the new version remains true to the original while offering the performer a degree of poetical bravura by no means superfluous or transcendental. It could well be programmed with other piano music by John Ireland, or stand alone as a highly effective and instantly recognised encore.

A recording by Maria Marchant is now available from SOMM Recordings (SOMMCD 0174).

SKU: ST.Y301

ISBN 9790220223631.

Performing edition corresponding with Purcell Society Edition Companion Series Volume 4, Nos. 1, 3 and 4.

CONTENTS
Giovanni Battista Draghi: Sonata in G minor
John Blow: Ground in G minor
Johann Gottfried Keller: Sonata with Suite in G minor.

SKU: ST.PC4

ISBN 9790220223426.

Highly appealing to scholars and amateur and professional performers alike, the nine pieces in this collection comprise all the known trio sonatas that survive complete and appear to have been written in England during the reign of Charles II by composers other than Purcell. John Blow's G minor Ground and Sonata in A, and a G minor sonata by Draghi, not only stand comparison with music of the younger composer, but also, in their varied approach to form, throw fascinating light on his more Italianate approach to the genre. All the sonatas - works by Robert King (a Sonetta after the Italion way), Johann Gottfried Keller, Nicola Matteis senior and Gerhard Diesineer - are attractive to play and listen to, and the collection, also including surviving violin parts from works by Blackwell and Eastwick, significantly extends our understanding of the context in which Purcell's famed sonatas arose. Performing material is available.

SKU: ST.MB88

ISBN 9790220221996.

Hitherto unpublished, the four trio sonatas and two fivepart sonatas by William Croft, which came to light in 1977, are among the most interesting and rewarding of English chamber works to have been written in the period between the trio sonatas of Purcell and those of Boyce and Arne. Possibly first heard at the concerts of the musical smallcoals man, Thomas Britton, they are complemented by six sonatas for two solo recorders, and three violin sonatas that are amongst the earliest printed works in this genre by an English composer.

SKU: ST.Y269

ISBN 9790220222641.

CONTENTS
Sonata no. 1 in C minor
(a) Grave, (b) Allegro, (c) Adagio, (d) Allegro
Sonata no. 2 in F major
(a) Allegro, (b) Adagio, (c) Allegro
Sonata no. 3 in G major
(a) Adagio, (b) Presto, (c) Adagio, (d) Allegro
Sonata no. 4 in B flat major
(a) Adagio, (b) Allegro, (c) Adagio, (d) Allegro
Sonata no. 5 in D minor
(a) Grave, (b) Vivace, (c) Allegro
Sonata no. 6 in G minor
(a) Grave, (b) Vivace, (c) Grave, (d) Allegro.

SKU: ST.Y268

ISBN 9790220222634.

Score and Parts. Performing edition corresponding with MB88.

SKU: ST.Y303

ISBN 9790220223655.

Performing edition corresponding with Purcell Society Edition Companion Series Volume 4, Nos. 5, 8 and 9.

CONTENTS
Johann Gottfried Keller: Sonata in A major
Robert King: Sonata in A major (Sonetta after the Italion way)
Nicola Matteis senior (attrib.): Sonata in D major.

SKU: ST.Y96

ISBN 9790220212222.

SATB SATB and organ. Transposed version of a motet found in Musica Britannica Volume 61. . Edited by John Steele.

SKU: ST.MB48

ISBN 9790220206771.

33 free fantasias dominate this collection, which also includes four In Nomines, four dances and variations on 'Go from my window'. This volume gathers together the complete surviving corpus of consort music by one of the genre's greatest masters.

SKU: ST.Y116

ISBN 9790220212437.

SATB SATB and organ. Transposed version of a motet found in Musica Britannica Volume 61. . Edited by John Steele.

SKU: ST.EC41

ISBN 9790220218873.

This volume completes the publication in a scholarly edition of Thomas Morley's Anglican sacred music, and initiates a new, larger format for the EECM series.

SKU: ST.H384

ISBN 9790220208805.

John Ireland's 'Cavatina' for violin and piano, which was probably composed in 1904, also exists in a slightly expanded version for organ and shows the composer's mastery of the popular salon style of the time. Unavailable for many years, it is now reissued in a new edition that includes a scholarly note by Geoffrey Bush.

SKU: ST.MB18

ISBN 9790220211690.

A popular volume of secular pieces, transcribed from the collection known as Henry VIII's Book, that captures the diverse musical life to be sampled at the court of England's most fascinating monarch.