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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.

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.

If there was ever a composer in the modern era from whom instrumentalists would hanker for a sonata or concerto, Richard Strauss must be right up there.

New Double Bass and Viola arrangements have just been published with the intention to create a new Suite Italienne that reflects as much of Stravinsky's music and style as possible.

Digital products are now available directly from The Shop at Boosey.com and the ABRSM Shop for the first time.

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.

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.