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Oct 2024
The oeuvre of Hans Winterberg has been revealed to be an immense musical treasure. Under lock and key for many years after the composer's death in 1991, it is now being made accessible and published for the first time by Boosey & Hawkes in cooperation with the Exilarte Centre of the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the composer's grandson.
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Aug 2024
Recent months have seen the release of a collection of publications of Magnus Lindberg’s recent works including Serenades and Piano Concerto No.3 in the prestigious Hawkes Pocket Score series, alongside performing materials of chamber works Santa Fe Project and Quintet.
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Jun 2024
The new Boosey & Hawkes edition of music by rediscovered Russian composer Leokadiya Kashperova is completed with the publication of her Piano Concerto, dating from 1900, together with a group of vocal scores.
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Apr 2024
Last year saw the launch of a newly revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The latest releases include his most performed score Symphony No.5, alongside the orchestral Nos.4, 7, 8 and 10 and No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ with solo bass and male chorus.
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Jan 2024
The 2024 Ernst von Siemens International Music Prize, with a value of 250,000 euros, will be awarded to the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin at a ceremony in Munich on 18 May. New publications by Chin in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series, released in the coming months, include Violin Concerto No.1, cosmigimmicks and the Cello Concerto.
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Jan 2024
Five new organ arrangements have been added to our digital library, all arranged by acclaimed organist Robert Gower. Works feature Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Warlock and Frederick Delius.
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Dec 2023
Leading organist and choral director Anna Lapwood has signed a publishing contract with Boosey & Hawkes. The new agreement includes her existing choral works and organ transcriptions together with rights to Lapwood’s future publications.
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Dec 2023
The Lost Birds, Christopher Tin’s elegy for the increasing extinction of bird species, is now published by Boosey & Hawkes as a vocal score, providing the choral materials for performance in a range of possible versions.
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Oct 2023
Boosey & Hawkes releases the piano-vocal score for David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s opera JFK this fall in honor of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy—a historical moment that has inspired numerous musical tributes over the decades.
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Sep 2023
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.
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Jul 2023
The latest large-scale work by Karl Jenkins, One World, is now released as a recording by Decca Records and the vocal score is published by Boosey & Hawkes. The world premiere on 19 November at the Brucknerhaus in Linz features the World Choir and Orchestra for Peace conducted by the composer.
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Jun 2023
2023 is a double celebration year for Christopher Norton, with his bestselling Microjazz series reaching its 40th anniversary in his 70th birthday year.
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Jun 2023
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.
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May 2023
Celebrated composer Karl Jenkins breaks records today, achieving over 1000 weeks in the UK classical charts with his much-performed work The Armed Man.
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Mar 2023
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.
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Feb 2023
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.
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Feb 2023
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.
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Feb 2023
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.
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Nov 2022
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.
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Sep 2022
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.
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