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We are pleased to announce the publication of Peter Thompson’s Symphony no 3. It is in three movements and is now available to purchase both as an A4-sized study score and in a wire-bound A3 Conductor Score. Separate parts will be available in due course.

Bax arr. Mitchell: Dance in the Sun

Fand Music Press continues its pioneering efforts with the music of Sir Arnold Bax by publishing a new piano version of his Dance in the Sun, arranged by John Mitchell.

Dance in the Sun is the second of Four Orchestral Pieces that Bax wrote in 1912–13; it was performed once in 1914 and then neglected for a century! In the meantime, Bax revived three of the four movements in 1928 as Three Pieces, transposing this movement and renaming it Dance in the Sunlight.

For this new piano arrangement, John Mitchell has gone back to the original version of the Dance in the Sun score, which has recently been edited by Bax authority Graham Parlett. John’s arrangement is typically pianistic, and is aimed at advanced pianists; whilst presenting a technical challenge, it remains accessible to competent players and attempts to preserve as much as possible of Bax’s score whilst allowing the music to be performed at its intended rapid pace on the piano.