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Having been awarded Sheet Music Publisher of the Year two years running by the SME News Southern Enterprise Awards, Fand Music Press’ reputation for quality and enterprise in music publishing has now been recognised internationally by its being granted a Corporate LiveWire Global Award for:
In such a competitive market, Fand is delighted to learn of this recognition for its service to contemporary classical music publishing.
The award text (also available to download as a PDF) notes in particular “the quality of the publisher’s platform” and how it is “easy to explore the sheet music, recordings, and books that Fand Music Press offers in its impressive catalogue” of more than 40 composers, authors and recording artists.
Fand is excitied to announce a trio of orchestral character pieces by Carey Blyton, plus another new song cycle by John Mitchell and a didactic suite of piano pieces by Adrian Williams:
Mary Webb (1881–1927) had a great love of her native Shropshire, where she spent most of her short life. Her most significant writing dates from her mid-thirties, and her collected poems were not published until shortly after her death. Much of her verse focuses on a detailed observation of the rural Shropshire landscape, with some notable descriptions of nature. The five poems selected for Secret Joys are in this category, and the songs to which they give rise have all been given titles referencing a colour. The name of the collection itself alludes to the original title of the fourth set poem: The Secret Joy.
Continuing with our Adrian Williams series, we are delighted to present these Three Piano Pieces, a charming, rather English Sicilienne sandwiched between two very vivacious, fast moving numbers, Little Toccata and Scherzetto.
The set is very pianistically laid out and would suit aspiring Grade 6+ players; indeed they were originally written for Adrian’s son, Eugene, when he was about 10 years old. We are happy to report that he enjoyed them very much!
These three orchestral works were written for different forces and are excellent repertoire, encores or ‘fillers’ for any orchestral concert programme. They are wonderfully tuneful and are thus memorable from a first hearing, and are sure to be loved by most audiences.
Peter Thompson’s ’Cello Concertino was written between 2000 and 2001, and is in three linked movements which run continuously. The second movement references music Thompson wrote at Cambridge Arts College in the early 1970s, specifically the Two Sonnets for Small Orchestra, which were prefaced by words of James Joyce: “Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away.” The Concertino is now available as both a full orchestral score and as a large-format Conductor Score. A piano reduction is also available for purchase. The solo ’cello part is included, and orchestral parts are available on request.
Fand Music Press is thrilled once again to announce that – for the second year running! – it has been awarded:
in SME News’ seventh annual Southern Enterprise Awards.
Also released this month…
Fand presents the third work to be published in our ongoing Adrian Williams collection. This piece was commissioned by the Gloucester Music Society and is dedicated to its Chairman, Christine Talbot-Cooper. It was subsequently premiered by Maria Marchant in the Ivor Gurney Hall, Gloucester on November 3rd, 2019. Stylistically contemporarily relevant, Soliloquy also has deep roots in an older tradition and is fabulously written by a composer whose own pianism is of the highest order.
Previous announcements may be found in the Fand News Archive.