New VOCES8 Songbook released

VOCES8 has released its second songbook anthology with partners Edition Peters. Featuring 8 songs for SATB choirs and vocal ensembles, this book contains some of the most often performed and most often requested titles by VOCES8.

The song arrangements are:
Atlantic Avenue arr. Dingle Yandell / Emily Dickens
Danny Boy, arr. Joshua Pacey
Edo Lullaby, arr. Paul Smith
My love is like a red, red rose arr. Jim Clements
Pie Jesu (from Fauré Requiem) arr. Barnaby Smith
Price Tag arr. Joshua Pacey
Strong arr. Dingle Yandell / Emily Dickens
Underneath the Stars arr. Jim Clements

The music is available via the VOCES8 website shop, or direct from the Edition Peters websites (London, Leipzig, New York), and of course at one of the group's concerts around the world.

See all of VOCES8's publications from Edition Peters here.

150th anniversary of the Edition Peters iconic green covers

Watch the brilliant film about the green covers at www.editionpeters.com/green150

Edition Peters was founded in 1800 in Leipzig Germany, now known as the City of Music, due to its close ties with Johann Sebastian Bach, Mendelssohn, Reger, Schumann, Wagner and of course home to the world famous Gewandhaus Orchestra. 217 years later, Leipzig is a city still bursting with culture and immensely proud of its crucial place in the history of Western classical music. In the 19th century Leipzig was the centre of publishing and printing in Germany, and at the forefront of technological developments in this area, something which is still a focus of Edition Peters' continued development.

During the first 66 years of life, the company had a succession of owners, and for a number of years was based in the ground floor of Mendelssohn’s house in Leipzig. By 1867 C.F. Peters, was partly owned by Max Abraham – a remarkable business visionary. Abraham was the first music publisher to adopt the new and revolutionary rotary printing press, which radically reduced printing costs.

In 2017 the Edition Peters Group is not only celebrating the green series but the technological innovation that was behind it. Edition Peters is innovating again, and just as seriously. To find out more, visit www.tidomusicapp.com.