Stainer & Bell Ltd

07/02/2025

NEW RELEASE – Fireworks by Will Harmer. SATB unaccompanied (with divisions).

‘Fireworks’ is a stand-out showcase of vocal pyrotechnics for any experienced choir and, from the first hissing fuse to the last whistling Catherine wheel, a brilliant addition to the genre of contemporary musical impressionism.

Find out more at https://stainer.co.uk/shop/cn73/.

05/02/2025

Our final composer visit of this series is Jamie Powe who's stunning work The New Moon has just been released on . Printed and digital sheet music coming soon from S&B 🎼

30/01/2025

Enter our free prize draw to WIN a 1000-piece jigsaw at the Music & Drama Education Expo today and tomorrow. Stand C24! See you there!

29/01/2025

NEW: Our new landmark critical edition of A Sea Symphony is now available. Pre-release orders are now shipping around the world.

Inspiring fresh wonder at a classic of British music, David Matthews’s edition of A Sea Symphony embraces the entire history of the work since its premiere in 1910, and the legacy of leading interpreters Sir Adrian Boult and Norman Del Mar, to create a benchmark volume of outstanding scholarship and typographical excellence. Rescoring the opening fanfare to reflect VW’s final intentions, the music incorporates revisions arising from a thorough review of the sources, including the composer’s organ part for the scherzo. Also new is the vocal score and accompanying hire material, making this the definitive complete edition for the twenty-first century.

This edition is published with the kind support of The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.

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23/01/2025

At S&B, there's nothing we love more than chatting with composers about their music. Last week we had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Áine Mallon.🎼

11/01/2025

Fab to chat composing and music publishing with the super-talented Crystalla Serghiou this week 🎼 National Youth Choir

03/01/2025

2025 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of England’s best-known composers of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean age, Orlando Gibbons stainer.co.uk/composer/orlando-gibbons/ A master of sacred music ('This is the record of John', 'Hosanna to the son of David', etc.), he also wrote one of the most famous madrigals of the era - 'The Silver Swan'. Click on the link below to listen to 12 recordings (from 1928 to 2018) that demonstrate the timeless fascination with this beautiful piece.

2025 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of England’s best-known composers of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean age, Orlando Gibbons. Born in 1583,

25/12/2024

Tune in to ClassicFM at 16:45 GMT today to hear the inimitable Stephen Fry narrating The Christmas Story, from the Thomas Hewitt Jones stable of festive musical gems.

20/12/2024

Behold! The NEW Critical Edition full score is now available for a pre-release discount. Prepared by David Matthews, the edition includes key updates to the orchestration and has been meticulously re-engraved. Published with the kind support of the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Edited by David Matthews First published in 2024 Pages: 216 Format: Hardback Dimensions (mm): 317 x 235 x 20 Weight: 1.2kg !!! PRE-PUBLICATION OFFER (15% OFF) !!! To celebrate the release of the new full score of A Sea Symphony, we are offering a limited-time 15% discount for all pre-publication ord...

10/12/2024

It was such a treat last week to host National Youth Choir composer Cameron Biles-Liddell here at S&B HQ and to talk all things choral composition.🎼

26/11/2024

Welcoming Welsh composer Victoria Roberts to our ChoralNow series with her stunning Emily Dickinson setting, The moon is distant from the sea, for mixed unaccompanied voices. Written for National Youth Choir and recorded on NMC Recordings:

https://stainer.co.uk/welcoming-claire-victoria-roberts/

15/11/2024

We are delighted to see that James McCarthy's lovely 'Peaceful Was the Night' (SSAA) is featured on a new recording by The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, director Anna Lapwood. Listen here to their beautiful performance https://annalapwood.lnk.to/TheWaitingSkyAY
and full details here: https://annalapwood.co.uk/new-release-abendlied-with-the-pembroke-college-girls-choir

Listen to The Waiting Sky by Anna Lapwood, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir.

26/10/2024

All set up at ABCD Convention 2024 in Reading! Great turn-out of delegates with starry presenters and composers in attendance (inc. our very own Russell Hepplewhite). And with tea, coffee and biscuits available round the clock, we are good to go!

28/09/2024

Composer Thomas Hewitt Jones introduces a new carol for unison voices composed for Caroline Lenton-Ward and the children’s choir of St Stephen’s, South Dulwi...

26/09/2024

Summer is over☹️. So make haste, as next week marks the end of our fa-la-labulous English Madrigalists Summer Sale! Save 50% on the complete of , , , and more.
https://stainer.co.uk/category/collected-editions/the-english-madrigalists/

13/09/2024

Very many congratulations to The Sixteen on their fabulous new CD of Stanford partsongs - "exquisitely wrought repertoire ... an outstanding album" (Gramophone) - featuring no less than 17 Premiere recordings. For information on the previously unpublished 'Nine Irish Folk Songs' see here https://stainer.co.uk/shop/d117/ and here https://stainer.co.uk/celebrating-stanford/
The Charles Villiers Stanford Society

10/09/2024

A trilogy of new releases from Stainer & Bell: RVW ‘The Charterhouse Suite’, arr. Violin & Piano (H513); Hewitt Jones: ‘Onward we go’ (instrumental version) (Y373); and Arakelyan: ‘Star Fantasy’, arr. Piano (Y383). Available from www.stainer.co.uk. 🎼