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Sheet Music Publisher of the Year 2022 & 2023

(SME News Southern Enterprise Awards, August 2022 & August 2023)

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Fand IncWessex Press is a publisher of high quality sheet music, CDs and books, all focussing on accessible 20th Century and contemporary composers and concentrating mainly on first editions. Please use the tabs at the top of the page to explore the catalogue. Further details, such as information about ordering, can be found on the Contact/Info page.


Second Edition

In Rutland was written in Ketton, Rutland, in the winter of 1999. First published in the following year, it is a five-movement suite ranging from a meditatively free, Andante amabile first movement to a virtuosic and joyful Presto finale. The work is a welcome addition to the unaccompanied ’cello repertoire and is of a similar level of difficulty to the variable demands made by the J. S. Bach unaccompanied suites.

Lyrics from the East can be heard on a couple of CD recordings available from Fand: as performed by Ian Partridge, tenor and Jennifer Partridge, piano (on Carey Blyton – Lyrics from the Chinese – these tracks may be heard below), and performed by Lorna Windsor, soprano and William Hancox, piano (on At the Open Door).


A recording of this work may be found on the CD, Carey Blyton – Lyrics from the Chinese.


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