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October sees the launch of a new revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The first group of four releases spans the composer’s life from his youthful Symphony No.1 through Nos.9 and 11 to his enigmatic farewell with No.15.

2023 is a double celebration year for Christopher Norton, with his bestselling Microjazz series reaching its 40th anniversary in his 70th birthday year.

Selections from Elena Kats-Chernin’s attractive works are now available on sale as digital publications for the first time. These include music from the popular Wild Swans Suite alongside her keyboard collections Piano Village and Unsent Love Letters.

Celebrated composer Karl Jenkins breaks records today, achieving over 1000 weeks in the UK classical charts with his much-performed work The Armed Man.

The vocal score of the first 1858 version of Orphée aux Enfers, which has long been a bestseller within the Offenbach Edition Keck, is now published anew in an edition supplemented with important recent discoveries as well as a range of digital resources.

The centenary of Ursula Mamlok (1923 – 2016) offers the opportunity to explore the music of this modernist composer who escaped from Nazi Germany to study and work in New York, returning to Berlin in 2006.

Explore new choral works from two-time Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin. New releases include Hope Is the Thing With Feathers, The Saddest Noise, Wild Swans and All That Could Never Be Said.

As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth on 1 April 2023, we invite you to join worldwide celebrations for the iconic composer and pianist.

The distribution of Sikorski publications, including works by leading Russian composers, has moved to Music Distribution Services (MDS) warehoused in Mainz, for all territories except the Americas and Australasia.

The State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London included the first performance of a specially composed anthem by James MacMillan, Who shall separate us? The Choirs of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal sang the choral work at the end of the service, conducted by James O’Donnell.

New festive repertoire has been published in the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral series from Kim André Arnesen, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Ben Ponniah.

Christopher Norton's bestselling Microjazz series is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the repertoire and teaching methods continuing to inspire teachers and students around the globe.

New releases, volumes 4 & 5 for piano, are now available, which include links directing to easy-to-access online audio recordings for every repertoire piece.

Explore the choral music of James MacMillan with our web guide embracing 150 works, sacred and secular, for a wide range of choral forces. Paul Spicer surveys each work, offering performance tips, and links are provided to listen and to obtain performance materials.

B&H is pleased to present a three-volume collection of John Adams’s opera choruses with piano accompaniment, including choral selections from Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, and more.

Jacques Offenbach's more than 100 stage works are an endless treasure trove of vocal highlights with highly different musical moods and lyrical themes. Two new volumes in the OEK Edition are now available for Mezzo-Soprano and Soprano voices.

These new editions of the Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 have been broadcast and recorded, and are now available in the Kashperova Edition, published by Boosey & Hawkes.

The letters of composer Gerald Finzi are collected together for the first time in a new book by Diana McVeagh, published this month by Boydell Press. The collection positions the composer in the British musical world between the 1920s and 1950s, revealing new aspects of his personality and compositional life.

In honour of the Stravinsky 50th anniversary of death on 6 April Boosey & Hawkes publishes his Two Sketches for a Sonata. The manuscript of these short piano fragments, composed towards the end of Stravinsky’s life, is housed in the Paul Sacher Foundation’s archive in Basel.

The Shop at Boosey.com is pleased to make several popular chamber and solo instrumental works by John Adams available for digital download for the first time ever, including the First Quartet along with piano arrangements for Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Hallelujah Junction.

A selection of Elena Kats-Chernin’s attractive works are now available on sale as digital publications for the first time. The 20 pieces for instrumental, piano, vocal and chamber forces range from rags and blues to songs and lullabies.