The Early Music Company

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Posted on Nov 9, 2021

This is the new look for The Early Music Company. As one of Clifford's favourite composers, it is fitting that the first title in the new format is music by Handel; his solo soprano setting of the psalm, Laudate pueri Dominum. Freshly edited from the two 18th-century sources, and available to buy...

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Posted on Jul 14, 2021

Work is about to start on the systemmatic digitisation and cataloguing of the entire Early Music Company catalogue. This will ensure its survival for future generations of early music enthusiasts. While (for now) we will still only sell printed music, as technology progresses, we may develop the ...

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The Early Music Company (formerly King's Music) specialises in performing editions of 17th- and 18th-century music. Roughly half of the catalogue consists of facsimiles of original printed sources (from keyboard music, through orchestral music by Albinoni, Locatelli, Tartini and Vivaldi as well as Avison, Mudge and Stanley, to vocal sets like Byrd's "Gradualia" and Rosenmüller's "Kern-Sprüche"), the remainder being newly typeset editions (again ranging from medieval monody to complete operas by Clifford Bartlett's favourite "early" composers, Handel, Monteverdi and Purcell).

As well as these, The Early Music Company welcomes requests for new editions – as suppliers to some of the world's leading festivals and companies (we are particularly delighted that our newly re-typeset "Dido and Aeneas" will be used at the Bolshoi!), and with a history of supporting students and young professionals, we have the experience and expertise to advise anyone looking for "new" repertoire.

For more details of the catalogue, please visit www.cliffordbartlett.com

For reviews of books about and editions/recordings of early music, please visit earlymusicreview.com

If you have a straightforward order or a query about the business, send it to elaine (at) theearlymusiccompany.com

If you're not entirely sure what you want and need advice on the catalogue or the music in it, or if you are an opera house or recording company wishing to negotiate a rights agreement, please write to brian (at) theearlymusiccompany.com

We both look forward to helping you!