MANNING SCHOOL EDITIONS contains a collection of the finest music from the Baroque era to the present day in a series of arrangements for various chamber ensemble and aims to consolidate and extend the interest of the true devotee of chamber music. Many original compositions are also included in the catalogue, which range from large orchestral works to sonatas, a work for solo Viola and chamber orchestra, a string quartet, and a divertissement for Oboe, Violin and Viola, arrangements for solo voice and string quartet, Church Anthems, Hymns and other works in a religious genre. The catalogue is constantly revised and updated with new works and arrangements being added on a regular basis.

Opera/Light Operetta

Gilbert & Sullivan - Songs from the Savoy Operas - H.M.S. Pinafore - 'I'm Called little Buttercup' - arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Gerald Manning by Sir Arthur Sullivan arr. Gerald Manning

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN- SONGS FROM THE SAVOY OPERAS IM CALLED LITTLE BUTTERCUP From H.M.S. Pinafore; or The Lass That Loved A Sailor (Opera Comique, London, May 25, 1878) The collaboration between English composer and conductor Sir Arthur Sullivan and the librettist William Gilbert produced a distinctive style of Opera Comique where the marriage of words and music produced a mixture of parody, burlesque and satire that achieved immense popularity in Britain and the USA. Sullivan met ...

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Gilbert & Sullivan - Songs from the Savoy Operas - H.M.S. Pinafore - 'I am the captain of the Pinafore' - arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Gerald Manning by Sir Arthur Sullivan

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN- SONGS FROM THE SAVOY OPERAS I am the captain of the Pinafore From H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass that loved a sailor (Opera Comique, London, May 25, 1878) The collaboration between English composer and conductor Sir Arthur Sullivan and the librettist Sir William Gilbert produced a distinctive style of Opera Comique where the marriage of words and music produced a mixture of parody, burlesque and satire that achieved immense popularity in Britain and the USA. S...

Come To The Opera - Puccini, G.- Tosca - Vissi d'arte - arr, for Soprano & String Quartet by Gerald Manning by Puccini, G.

VISSI darte, vissi damore from TOSCA. Opera in three acts with music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), libretto by Liigi Illica (prose text) and Giuseppe Giacosa (verses) based on a play of the same name by Victorien Sardou and first performed on the 14th of January 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. In 1887 the French playwright Victorien Sardou wrote his play La Tosca for Sarah Bernhardt but it was not till 1895 after Puccini had finished composing La Boheme that he seriously though...

Classical

PARRY, C.H. - Bridal March from Aristophanes 'The Birds' - arr. for String Quartet by Gerald Manning by Charles Hubert Parry arr. Gerald Manning

English composer and author Sir Charles Hubert Parry began composing hymns and chants at the age of eight. While a scholar at Eton he distinguished himself by his singing, piano, and organ playing and the composition of some beautiful songs. He was a pupil in composition with Elvey and before he left Eton he took his B.Mus. degree at Oxford University, where residence was not then required for degrees in music he was just nineteen years old. Although he composed five symphonies and much orch...

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FELTON, W. - A Little Tune - arr. for String Quartet by Gerald Manning by William Felton

The Rev. William Felton to give him his full title, (he later became a minor cannon at Hereford Cathedral), was born at Drayton in 1713. Educated at Manchester and Cambridge, he became a clergyman and vicar-choral, and soon became famous as a performer on the organ and harpsichord, for which he wrote many concertos and lessons. The best known among these was the celebrated Feltons Gavotte, which comprised a set of variations and comes from one of the concertos. This delightful Little Tune com...

VIVALDI, A.- "The Four Seasons" - Concerto No. 2 in G minor: L'Estate ("Summer") - arr. for String Quartet by Gerald Manning by Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi was a consummate artist and musician in every sense of the word; he was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and according to one observer who was present at one of his concerts where his violin solos at intermissions became legendary observed that Vivaldi made his fingers jump to the point where there was only a hairs breath between them and the bridge. He did this while playing imitative passages on all four strings at incredible speed His reputation as a...