Edited by Warwick Edwards
15 pieces from the Walsingham Consort Book of 1588 and 19 pieces from Matthew Holmes's Consort Books, c.1575 represent music for mixed consort, a colourful and eclectic genre that played an important role in Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music-making. / Partitions classique / Ensemble et orchestre / Ensemble mixte / STAINER AND BELL

Even for Ralph Vaughan Williams the prospect of two world premieres within 24 hours must have been something of a rarity. Such was the case however on the first two days of June 1953, when his now classic arrangement of The Old Hundredth Psalm was sung at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, being preceded the evening before by the premiere of 'Silence and Music', fourth of ten par…

Par BROWN CHRISTINE. Score and Parts Standard: Elementary Christine Brown is a highly respected teacher and composer for young people, and in her Chandos Suite for violin, cello and piano she marries her wealth of practical experience in coaching elementary players in the art of chamber music with her distinctively tuneful way of writing for the three instruments. A wistful Prelude precedes a myst…

Par COCKER NORMAN. Angelus; Trio; Interlude and Paean The reissue of four pieces by Norman Cocker, celebrated organist of Manchester Cathedral in the inter-war period, further extends Stainer & Bell's library of English Cathedral music that also includes the complete solo works of Basil Harwood and pieces by Darke, Hollins and Bairstow. Detailed registrations by Henry Ley, himself a noted performe…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In the 50th anniversary year of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, this highly attractive arrangement for piano of one of his most popular works will surely find its way into the repertoire of many pianists. Treasured by organists, but no less admired in its orchestral arrangement often heard on Classic FM, this delightful prelude on the Welsh hymn tune known as Rhosy…

Publication of the complete English sacred music of George Jeffreys (c.1610–1685) opens a window on the achievement of one of the few pre-Commonwealth composers wholeheartedly committed to the contemporary Italianate stile nuovo. Besides a quantity of sacred works in Latin, there are 26 surviving English anthems and devotional pieces, plus three settings from the Communion Service, an impressive …

Three movements for solo cornet in B flat. Ar y Mynydd Prydferth Cymreig (On The Beautiful Welsh Mountain) is a colourful, programmatic piece in three short movements, depicting scenes of Welsh mountains, valleys, caves and a hero, armed only with his trusty cornet, encounters a legendary red dragon. Ar y Mynydd Prydferth Cymreig was highly commended by the judges in the first Stainer & Bell Award…