SSA choir

SKU: C4.9790902257114

Composed by George Henschel. Classical. Score. Crescendo Music Publications #9790902257114. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790902257114).

ISBN 9790902257114. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Sir George Henschel's setting of the Pater noster (Our Father), was first published in 1913. The dedicatee, Sophie Weisse (1852-1945), was founder of Northlands, an all-girls school in Surrey, England. As well as George Henschel, Weisse counted many people of note among her circle of friends, including violinist Joseph Joachim, flautist Louis Fleury, and 'cellist Pablo Casals. She was the first to observe Donald Tovey's aptitude for music and took it upon herself to manage his education, all the way to Balliol College, Oxford.

SATTBB choir, organ

SKU: C4.9790-902250504

Composed by George Henschel. Edited by Daniel Mitterdorfer and Harold Fabrikant. Score. Crescendo Music Publications #9790-902250504. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790-902250504).

ISBN 9790902250504.

Hens chel's O salutaris Hostia was originally issued as an appendix to his Missa ad octo voces inaequales, Op. 65 originally published in 1920 by the London firm of Bayley & Ferguson. This was not the work's first outing, however. In 1918, Bailey & Ferguson published a setting of this mass in English (Communion Service: Mass in C, for Eight Voices a Cappella, Op. 65), where it was also published as an appendix. The only difference between the 1918 and 1920 editions is the bass underlay in bars 9-10; we have reproduced the later version here.

The Tantum ergo was written in 1923 as a stand-alone work and first published by the London firm of Augener Ltd in that same year; the manuscript is housed in the British Library.

SSAATTBB choir

SKU: C4.9790902257077

Composed by George Henschel. Classical. Score. Crescendo Music Publications #9790902257077. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790902257077).

ISBN 9790902257077. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Henschel's There were Shepherds is a gorgeously intimate setting of the well-known text of Luke 2: 8-14 and would equally be at home in a carol service or Christmas concert.

String Quartet

SKU: C4.9790-902250559

Composed by George Henschel. Edited by Daniel Mitterdorfer and Harold Fabrikant. Classical. Score and Parts. Crescendo Music Publications #9790-902250559. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790-902250559).

ISBN 9790902250559. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Not much is known of the performance history of this work, though its dedication to the Kneisel Quartet indicates that Henschel held them in high esteem. Cast in the traditional four-movement structure, the Quartet looks back unashamedly to the Romantic period and would not be out of place in a programme containing any of Brahms' Quartets.

SATB choir

SKU: C4.9790-902250498

Composed by George Henschel. Edited by Daniel Mitterdorfer and Harold Fabrikant. Score. Crescendo Music Publications #9790-902250498. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790-902250498).

ISBN 9790902250498.

Hens chel's O salutaris Hostia was originally issued as an appendix to his Missa ad octo voces inaequales, Op. 65 originally published in 1920 by the London firm of Bayley & Ferguson. This was not the work's first outing, however. In 1918, Bailey & Ferguson published a setting of this mass in English (Communion Service: Mass in C, for Eight Voices a Cappella, Op. 65), where it was also published as an appendix. The only difference between the 1918 and 1920 editions is the bass underlay in bars 9-10; we have reproduced the later version here.

SATB solo voices, SSAATTBB choir

SKU: C4.9790-902250467

Composed by George Henschel. Edited by Daniel Mitterdorfer and Harold Fabrikant. Score. Crescendo Music Publications #9790-902250467. Published by Crescendo Music Publications (C4.9790-902250467).

ISBN 9790902250467.

Our source for the present edition of his Missa ad octo voces inaequales, Op. 65 is that issued in 1920 by the London firm of Bayley & Ferguson. This was not the work's first outing, however. In 1918, Bailey & Ferguson published a setting of this mass in English (Communion Service: Mass in C, for Eight Voices a Cappella, Op. 65, also published by Crescendo Music Publications), with movements ordered according to the Prayer Book. Perhaps to allow the work a larger audience, Henschel slightly modified the music to fit the Latin syllabification and reordered the movements, but essentially the work is as it was two years earlier.

Our edition includes a full list of editorial changes and corrections. Also available is a version which omits the Credo, for churches where it is sung congregationally.