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Agathe Backer Grøndahl: New Urtext Editions
7th Feb 2025by Ellena Spirrett
Edition Peters recently published the first-ever Urtext editions of two of Backer Grøndahl’s piano works: 'Fantasistykker', and 'I Blaafjellet'. Find out more.
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Sheet Music Downloads from Faber Music now available!
14th Oct 2024by Ellena Spirrett
We are pleased to announce that Presto Music now offers digital downloads from Faber Music, Alfred Music, Edition Peters, and Manners McDade. Find out more.
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Roy Howat & Emily Kilpatrick on Fauré's vocal repertoire
21st Jun 2024by Ellena Spirrett
Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick, the foremost experts on the vocal repertoire of Gabriel Fauré, answer our questions about the composer, the critical edition, and why his compositions are still so important today.
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Notebook for Johann Christian Bach
31st Oct 2023by Ellena Spirrett
The Notebook for Johann Christian Bach completes the collection of surviving instructional works from within the Bach family, following the highly praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Together, Bach’s Notebooks provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. Find out more.
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Penelope Roskell: The Essential Piano Technique
23rd May 2023by Ellena Spirrett
Following on from her award-winning book The Complete Pianist, Penelope Roskell's latest series Essential Piano Technique is aimed at children in the early stages of learning the piano, helping them develop a strong foundation of healthy technique, and allowing rapid progression through the early stages of piano playing. Find out more.
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Daniel Grimwood on Adolph von Henselt
27th Apr 2023by Ellena Spirrett
Editor Daniel Grimwood is one of Adolph von Henselt's most highly regarded interpreters. After recently completing a new edition of Henselt's Etudes with Edition Peters, Daniel kindly took some time to talk to me about the new Urtext edition and the composer Adolph von Henselt.
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Piccolo Paganini, Volume 2
21st Feb 2023by Ellena Spirrett
Following the success of the first volume, Piccolo Paganini, Vol. 2 contains thirty original intermediate-level pieces for violin and piano. These rarely performed concert pieces provide appealing, accessible, and musically rewarding repertoire pieces. Find out more.
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Nazrin Rashidova on Émile Sauret
21st Dec 2022by Ellena Spirrett
In collaboration with Edition Peters, Azerbaijani-British violin virtuoso Nazrin Rashidova has recently published a new edition of Émile Sauret's 24 Études Caprices, Op. 64. We spoke to Nazrin about her interest in the composer and her experience studying and performing the etudes.
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Edition Peters: Piano Anthology Examination Pieces
6th Oct 2022by Ellena Spirrett
New from Edition Peters, the Piano Anthology Examination Pieces for 2023 and 2024 support students preparing for ABRSM's practical or performance exams. Comprising four volumes at grade 5-8 level, each book includes a selection from lists A, B, and C, as well as pieces suitable for the own-choice section of the performance exams.
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Tango canción: Argentine tangos for voice & piano
23rd Aug 2022by Ellena Spirrett
Containing a wide-ranging selection of songs, Tango canción covers the entire history of tango in its historical and musical diversity, from its beginnings right up to today. Equally suitable for amateur and professional singers, this collection offers instantly appealing repertoire. Find out more.
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Gabriel Fauré: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano
4th Aug 2022by Ellena Spirrett
Numbering more than one-hundred in total, Gabriel Fauré’s songs form the single most influential contribution to the field of French art song. The final volume of Edition Peters' award-winning and complete critical edition of Gabriel Fauré’s works for voice and piano is now available. Find out more here.
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Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1720)
23rd Nov 2021by Ellena Spirrett
Following the acclaimed publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725, Edition Peters have published a new premium Urtext edition of the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 edited by world-renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff.
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Schumann’s Cello Concerto Rediscovered
1st Apr 2021by Ellena Spirrett
Edited by internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight, Edition Peters presents the original version of Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129, the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it.
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Frédéric Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études
16th Feb 2021by Ellena Spirrett
Introducing Edition Peters' new Urtext edition of Chopin’s Trois Nouvelles Études, the latest publication from The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition. Originally published in 1840 in the multi-composer Méthode des Méthodes, the Trois Nouvelles Études are Chopin’s least overtly vituosic studies, but they are arguably the most quietly sophisticated of all. Find out more here.
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Edition Peters Concert Band Series
30th Sep 2020by Ellena Spirrett
The Peters Concert Band Series offers an exciting new range of repertoire for symphonic bands. This expanding series contains new arrangements of some of the most popular concert and choral works of recent years, from the exuberant joyfulness of Jonathan Dove’s Ring Out, Wild Bells or the folky, avant-pop of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Perpetuum Mobile to the enraptured stillness of Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Stars.
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Beethoven Musical Souvenirs for Piano
6th Apr 2020by Ellena Spirrett
Specially produced in association with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn for the 250th Anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, this souvenir collection of some of his most famous pieces is now available from Edition Peters.
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Penelope Roskell: The Complete Pianist
25th Feb 2020by Ellena Spirrett
The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry offers a new and unique approach to piano playing, in which Penelope Roskell shares a lifetime’s experience of teaching, performing and ground-breaking research into healthy piano playing.
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Simon Fischer: Transcriptions for Violin and Piano
8th Oct 2019by Ellena Spirrett
Violinist Simon Fischer is known throughout the world for his acclaimed violin methods published by Edition Peters. Now available to buy in one volume are his brilliant and idiomatic transcriptions for violin and piano of famous works from the classical repertoire. Find out more here.
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The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725
30th Sep 2019by Ellena Spirrett
For the first time, Edition Peters present a new hard cover premium Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach, containing all the material from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks together in one volume, in their original landscape format. Find out more about the publication here.
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Edition Peters: Silk Road Library
11th Jun 2019by Ellena Spirrett
In association with the Central Conservatory of Music Press in Beijing, Edition Peters have released six new orchestral works by China's leading contemporary composers inspired by the cultural exchange and rich legacy of the Silk Road.