Performer's Edition

10/10/2024

It's our favorite holiday, Viola Appreciation Day! We celebrate the stalwarts of the offbeat, the meat of the orchestral sandwich, the glue holding everything together! As always, the generosity of violists extends to everyone with 10% off your order for everyone through this weekend. Just use code ViolaDay24 at checkout!

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Performer's Edition produces new, high quality editions of classical and modern works, available as printed documents or for download. Performer's Edition also provides low-cost reprints of historical editions of classical works.

01/06/2024

What a great experience this week to see four organists and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal celebrate the 10th anniversary of their beautiful pipe organ, including one of our favorite pieces for organ & orchestra, Jongen’s Symphonie concertante! A fabulous way to close out their season!

18/04/2024

It was a pleasure seeing these parts finally in use! We are thrilled to have partnered with the Anderson Symphony Orchestra to create a new edition of Resphighi’s Pines of Rome in honor of Maestro Rick Sowers’ final performance after 35 years as Music Director. This new edition is designed for ease of reading and rehearsal and fixes numerous issues in the original edition - and now without rental costs! Get your own copy at http://pego.work/pines !

05/09/2023

We're in the final countdown to the world premiere of A. Paul Johnson's String Quartet No. 5 - A Triptych on Red Skelton Tunes! If you're in or near central Indiana, please join us on Sunday, September 10, at historic Trinity United Methodist Church, Lafayette, IN at 2 pm to hear both this exciting new work and Johnson's String Quartet No. 4 - Early American. The fabulous Castleton String Quartet, composed of Musicians from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra perform both works, while A. Paul Johnson will speak briefly about the inspiration behind the works. More information on the concert is available at http://www.trinitylafayette.org/

We'll also be releasing the debut recording of both works on Sunday - with CDs available in person and our Web site, or check your favorite streaming service on Sunday!

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10/10/2022

It's everyone's favorite holiday - Viola Appreciation Day! Let's hear it for those unsung players of middle voices, the holders of whole notes, the warriors of the off beats!

Share the joy with your favorite viola sections by sharing your viola section selfies below - you know you all take them from time to time!

As always, we're celebrating this most important of holidays with 10% off music - even if you're not a violist. Just use discount code ViolaDay22 in your shopping cart through 11/11!

22/05/2022

It’s Saturday night, so that means OPERA! We’re watching Bizet’s Carmen:

Recorded for Mezzo

18/05/2022

Remembering Gustav Mahler, who died on this day in 1911. Such a loss!

Symphony No. 9 in D majorI. Andante comodo 00:00II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb 27:43III. Rondo – Burleske. Allegro as...

18/05/2022

Did you know that we donate a portion of our profits to performing arts organizations each year? Order knowing your purchase will go toward a great cause! Read more about this initiative:

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16/05/2022

Happy birthday to our fearless leader, Mark! In addition to running Performer’s Edition, Mark is an accomplished violist, hence the beautiful music we’ve chosen today. Enjoy!

Arnold Bax Viola SonataI. Molto moderato - AllegroII. Allegro energico, ma non troppo prestoIII. Molto lentoHsin-Yun Huang, viola Pei-Yao Wang, pianoJune 2...

12/05/2022

Congratulations to Raven Chacon on winning a Pulitzer Prize in music!

Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass,” a work for ensemble and pipe organ that “evokes the weight of history in a church setting,” won the prize for music.

09/05/2022

It's the best day of the week, Obscure Music Monday! Check out our newsletter to read about Louise Farrenc's Piano Quintet No. 1, and browse music for woodwind ensembles!

05/05/2022

May night...for a May night! Such a gorgeous work!

Selim Palmgren (1878–1951) was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. One of Finland's finest pianist-composers, he trained with Conrad Ansorge and Fer...