Fand IncWessex Press

Fand is honoured to present a new commemorative first edition of a work by a composer new to the catalogue: Batuque by leading Brazilian composer Murillo Santos is a spectacular and engaging encore piece, presented here in versions for both piano solo and piano duet (four hands) in the same booklet.

Sadly, the composer died during the late stages of preparation of this publication. We therefore present it in a commemorative edition with a foreword written by the pianist Patrícia Bretas. A personal friend of the composer, Patrícia has recorded the solo version of the piece on a commercial CD and – as one half of the Bretas–Kevorkian Duo – is a dedicatee of the piano duet version. Visit the piece’s product page to hear her CD recording of the solo original and a live performance by the dedicatees of the duet version.

New Songs by Peter Thompson

We are also delighted to publish two new songs for voice and piano by Peter Thompson, which set words by contemporary poets Roger Eno and Julian Farmer; additionally, we present Thompson’s two settings of the 17th century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw for medium voice, two violins and ’cello, originally written in 1992 and now published for the first time.