Publications

Carlo Ignazio Monza

Pièces Modernes pour le Clavecin 

Harpsichord (Organ)

Edited by Terence Charlston

Carlo Ignazio Monza, ‘the Milanese’, was born towards the end of the seventeenth century. His operas and oratorios were performed all over Italy and he spent his final years in Vercelli where he died in 1739. His Pièces Modernes pour le Clavecin offer an intriguing picture of keyboard performance in northern Italy at this time. In idiom and notation they are strongly influenced by French style, while their content is pan-European. The music is often virtuosic and, like the early classical style it prefigures, always lyrical. After his death, Monza’s keyboard music was passed off as the work of Pergolesi. Stravinsky, also under the misapprehension that they were by Pergolesi, used extracts from two pieces in his ballet score, Pulcinella.

This new complete edition of Monza’s Pièces Modernes pour le Clavecin consists of 26 pieces—four suites containing a total of 24 pieces for harpsichord, and a prelude and fugue which may have been intended for performance on the organ but which can also be played on the harpsichord. In addition to a full critical commentary and an introductory essay on Monza and his music, this edition provides a detailed discussion of the performance practice of the music and an audio-cd of nineteen pieces performed by Terence Charlston on harpsichord recorded by Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.

This publication makes Monza’s Pièces Modernes pour le Clavecin available in a modern critical edition for the first time.

20 preface + 84 music pages. 4 facsilimes.

 AVAILABLE JULY 2009

Catalogue details: Score N.M.O. 12742 
Orders to: order@musikforlaget.no
Publisher: Norsk Musikforlag AS, P.O. Box 1499 Vika, N- 0116 OSLO, Norway. Phone: (+47) 23 00 20 10 / 23 00 20 20 orders. Fax: (+47) 23 00 20 11. Email: order@musikforlaget.no. Web: www.norskmusikkforlag.no.

Bryne Interactive Edition

 Complete Keyboard Works of Albertus Bryne

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For Harpsichord and Organ

 Edited by Terence Charlston. CD-ROM by Heather Windram & Terence Charlston

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Catalogue details: Score N.M.O.12448A 
Retail price: NOK 395,00 (+VAT in Norway) £39,50. Orders to: order@musikforlaget.no
Publisher: Norsk Musikforlag AS, P.O. Box 1499 Vika, N- 0116 OSLO, Norway. Phone: (+47) 23 00 20 10 / 23 00 20 20 orders. Fax: (+47) 23 00 20 11. Email: order@musikforlaget.no. Web: www.norskmusikkforlag.no.

Hidden Treasures of Music

Charles Wesley
Organ Concerto in G minor Op.2 No.5

 Edited by Terence Charlston

Full Score

N.M.O. 12363; ISMN M-065-11441-5; ISBN 82-7093-558-1 

Available from Norsk Musikforlag.

« Charles Wesley (1757–1834), the son of the celebrated hymn writer Charles Wesley and nephew of the Anglican clergyman and founder of Methodism John Wesley, was an infant prodigy and, at the age of three, he was compared favourably to the young Mozart.  In spite of family opposition, Charles became a fine organist, playing the organ in dissenting chapels and finally at St. Marylebone Parish Church, London. He was a significant composer of orchestral, vocal and chamber music, including a set of string quartets and at least a dozen organ concertos. This concerto, the fifth in his only published set, is well written and melodically inventive. It is in three movements with a central fast movement framed by subtly slower movements—a pattern familiar from other Galant style compositions of late Baroque and early Classical periods. The first two movements are in G minor and present complementary aspects of similar chromatic ideas, the first an andante affetuoso and the second a brilliant fugue. The suave concluding Tempo di Minuetto is typical of the lyrical concerto finales of J.C.Bach and Mozart.»

Early Keyboard Series 1

Matthew Locke - Thirteen Keyboard Pieces  For Harpsichord and Organ

 Edited and arranged by Terence Charlston

ISBN 1–904846–0205

Available from: Peacock Press, Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 5JS, U.K. Tel +44 (0)1422 882751 Fax +44 (0)1422 886157 or e-mail  [Catalogues] [Order form]

Entry in F major; Almain in G major; Pavan in D minor (arranged by Terence Charlston); Suite in D major (Almain, Coranto, Saraband); Ayre in F major; Saraband in F major; Saraband in F major (completed by Terence Charlston); Corant in A minor and Facsimile from OB MS Mus.Sch.D.219; Almand in D minor (arranged by Terence Charlston); Prelude in A minor; Voluntary in A minor.

Eleven pieces for harpsichord and two for organ (manuals only) fully edited, arranged and completed. These short pieces make an ideal introduction to Matthew Locke and Restoration keyboard music. Includes full musical text in modern notation with generous preface, guidance on performance practice issues, instrumentation and critical notes.

This collection provides a new and reliable edition of those  keyboard pieces not included in Musicks Hand-maide and Melothesia, two pieces from The Present Practice of Music Vindicated (published for the first time) and a newly completed Saraband.  Also included are editorial arrangements to show how contemporary players might have adapted instrumental dance music for keyboard performance.

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Early Keyboard Series: 3

J. S. Bach - Concerto in D minor for Organ (Harpsichord) and strings After BWV 35 and 156

 Edited and arranged by Terence Charlston

ISBN 1–904846–10-16

Available from: Peacock Press, Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 5JS, U.K. Tel +44 (0)1422 882751 Fax +44 (0)1422 886157 or e-mail  [Catalogues] [Order form]

No organ concertos survive by J. S. Bach, the father of the harpsichord concerto and the most important composer of solo organ music. This arrangement draws musical material from the obbligato sinfonias in cantata 35 and 156 and provides organists with a coherent and satisfying concert work with strings which can also be performed on harpsichord

Full Score with five parts for Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Continuo (Cello/Bass), Organ/Harpsichord

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