Martin Perkins - Early Keyboards, Director, Scholar

English composer and organist John Reading (c.1685–1764) published A Book of new Anthems Containing a Hundred Plates fairly Engraven with a Thorough Bass figur’d for the Organ or Harpsichord in c.1715. The title-page states that the collection was available ‘By Subscription’ only, and in the prefatory Advertisement the composer explains why: ‘‘Tis a very hard, tho usual Case, that when A Person has with great Labour and Study Compleated A Work of this Nature, Others should Pi

Just published is an online Dataset of Subscribers to Eighteenth-Century Music Publications in Britain and Ireland, which can be accessed...

Just published! Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676–1820. Edited By Simon...

Edition HH have recently published the first edition of one of Giovanni Battista Vitali's Modenese cantata 'Donde avvien che’tutt’ebro di...

Weston Park Cello Music, edited by Martin Perkins, is out today! This edition presents all the solo and two-part cello music from the...

Barnabas Gunn's Six Solos for the Violin and Violoncello with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord, has been published by Edition HH....

Innovative virtual instruments developers, Soniccouture have just released The Conservatoire Collection - a sample library of early...