Urtext Edition of Holst's Wind Quintet

June 17, 2006 11:39 PM

Sky Dance Press announces the publication of the Wind Quintet in A Flat, Op.14 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon

NEW Complete Urtext Edition
(Edited by Raymond Head)

This edition presents the beautiful Holst Wind Quintet complete - for the first time. Written in 1903 when Gustav Holst was 29 the origin of this work was surrounded in mystery - as was its survival. For many years the whereabouts of the manuscript was unknown but in 1978 it surfaced in the Surrey History Centre, Woking, Surrey.

The work was first published in 1983 but in a truncated version; 44 bars were cut from the first movement and 32 from the second and various markings were added throughout. This edition has restored all the lost bars and cleansed the score of all the additional markings. For the first time scholars and performers, as well as listeners, can study what Holst wrote.

This is a beautiful and substantial work that should be known by all those who are interested in the music of Gustav Holst, wind repertoire and the progress of British music at the beginning of the 20th century.

Raymond Head, composer, teacher of singing and piano and Holst scholar has spent many years researching, writing and broadcasting for the BBC on the subject of the music of Gustav Holst. Much of his work has been published in TEMPO (C.U.P), BBC Music Magazine, CD notes and elsewhere. He is a trustee of the Holst Birthplace Museum, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.

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