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The consoling Benedictus movement from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is under the spotlight in the latest episode in BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music series, exploring how music can deeply affect the lives of individuals across the world.

First performed by the BBC Singers on Armistice Day 2022, Kerensa Briggs’ Requiem is a heartfelt and poignant setting of nine sections from the Office for the Dead. This moving 35-minute work for mezzo-soprano soloist, mixed chorus, and organ highlights the composer's appreciation of the connection between music and faith.

The oeuvre of Hans Winterberg has been revealed to be an immense musical treasure. Under lock and key for many years after the composer's death in 1991, it is now being made accessible and published for the first time by Boosey & Hawkes in cooperation with the Exilarte Centre of the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the composer's grandson.

Recent months have seen the release of a collection of publications of Magnus Lindberg’s recent works including Serenades and Piano Concerto No.3 in the prestigious Hawkes Pocket Score series, alongside performing materials of chamber works Santa Fe Project and Quintet.

The new Boosey & Hawkes edition of music by rediscovered Russian composer Leokadiya Kashperova is completed with the publication of her Piano Concerto, dating from 1900, together with a group of vocal scores.

Last year saw the launch of a newly revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The latest releases include his most performed score Symphony No.5, alongside the orchestral Nos.4, 7, 8 and 10 and No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ with solo bass and male chorus.

The 2024 Ernst von Siemens International Music Prize, with a value of 250,000 euros, will be awarded to the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin at a ceremony in Munich on 18 May. New publications by Chin in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series, released in the coming months, include Violin Concerto No.1, cosmigimmicks and the Cello Concerto.

Five new organ arrangements have been added to our digital library, all arranged by acclaimed organist Robert Gower. Works feature Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Warlock and Frederick Delius.

Leading organist and choral director Anna Lapwood has signed a publishing contract with Boosey & Hawkes. The new agreement includes her existing choral works and organ transcriptions together with rights to Lapwood’s future publications.

The Lost Birds, Christopher Tin’s elegy for the increasing extinction of bird species, is now published by Boosey & Hawkes as a vocal score, providing the choral materials for performance in a range of possible versions.

Boosey & Hawkes releases the piano-vocal score for David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s opera JFK this fall in honor of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy—a historical moment that has inspired numerous musical tributes over the decades.

October sees the launch of a new revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The first group of four releases spans the composer’s life from his youthful Symphony No.1 through Nos.9 and 11 to his enigmatic farewell with No.15.

The latest large-scale work by Karl Jenkins, One World, is now released as a recording by Decca Records and the vocal score is published by Boosey & Hawkes. The world premiere on 19 November at the Brucknerhaus in Linz features the World Choir and Orchestra for Peace conducted by the composer.

2023 is a double celebration year for Christopher Norton, with his bestselling Microjazz series reaching its 40th anniversary in his 70th birthday year.

Selections from Elena Kats-Chernin’s attractive works are now available on sale as digital publications for the first time. These include music from the popular Wild Swans Suite alongside her keyboard collections Piano Village and Unsent Love Letters.

Celebrated composer Karl Jenkins breaks records today, achieving over 1000 weeks in the UK classical charts with his much-performed work The Armed Man.

The vocal score of the first 1858 version of Orphée aux Enfers, which has long been a bestseller within the Offenbach Edition Keck, is now published anew in an edition supplemented with important recent discoveries as well as a range of digital resources.

The centenary of Ursula Mamlok (1923 – 2016) offers the opportunity to explore the music of this modernist composer who escaped from Nazi Germany to study and work in New York, returning to Berlin in 2006.

Explore new choral works from two-time Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin. New releases include Hope Is the Thing With Feathers, The Saddest Noise, Wild Swans and All That Could Never Be Said.

The distribution of Sikorski publications, including works by leading Russian composers, has moved to Music Distribution Services (MDS) warehoused in Mainz, for all territories except the Americas and Australasia.