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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.

Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen’s new piano music collection is being released by Boosey & Hawkes and Decca Classics as digital print and digital audio.

We are sad to share the news of the death of the outstanding violin pedagogue Sheila Nelson, whose award-winning publications with Boosey & Hawkes include The Essential String Method, Tetratunes and Flip-A-Rhythm.

The 4 Strings publications of contemporary repertoire, published by Boosey & Hawkes and edited by Liz Partridge, are attracting additional interest in lockdown. Flexible string ensemble options and minus-1 audio tracks are ideal for remote musicians and teaching groups.

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to learn of the death of Edward Huws Jones, the compiler and editor of the acclaimed Fiddler books, one of the most successful series of educational publications in the B&H catalogue.

Celebrate the iconic Hawkes Pocket Scores series with a new range of mugs, just released on sale by Boosey & Hawkes. Six designs feature classic scores by Bartók, Copland, Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff, Reich and Stravinsky.

The 85th birthday year of Harrison Birtwistle has brought the release of a range of his scores, published for the first time, ranging from orchestral and chamber works to music for piano and guitar.

First reviews are appearing for Dmitri Braginsky's remarkable book, Shostakovich and Football: Escape to Freedom, now available from The Shop at Boosey.com.

Two major works by Serge Prokofieff dating from the 1930s, his Cello Concerto inspired by Piatigorsky and the Chant symphonique, have joined the prestigious Hawkes Pocket Scores series.

Dmitri Braginsky's new book, Shostakovich and Football: Escape to Freedom, examines the composer's lifelong passion for the sport, through historic documents from the Soviet era and a lavish selection of photos.

A new range of tote bags celebrates 20th century works in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series. The exterior adopts the iconic brown and green of the cover, while the reversible interior carries a page from inside the score.

Following tours around the US and to the Vatican for its European premiere, Kim André Arnesen's The Holy Spirit Mass is now published in vocal score format.

The Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores service, free to visitors of boosey.com, is now rolled out to Apple device users as well as via PC and Android.

Commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Stabat Mater was the first ever work to be performed and live-streamed at the Sistine Chapel in April 2018. The vocal score is now available, scored for mixed voices and string orchestra.

Elena Kats-Chernin pays tribute to Erik Satie with her new collection of piano miniatures, recorded by ABC Classics, internationally released for download by Deutsche Grammophon, and published as a piano score by Boosey & Hawkes.

Welsh composer Karl Jenkins dedicated his landmark mass The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace to the victims of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.