5 incredible Bach organ fugues arranged for string quartet. Includes score and parts. Table of Contents Fugue 1 – BWV 541 Fugue 2 – BWV 551 Fugue 3 – BWV 557 Fugue 4 – BWV 535 Vor Deinen Thron Tret Ich Hiermit – BWV 540

This edition accompanies the ‘8 Bach Sarabandes for Solo Violin Arr. by Fred Thomas for Rachel Podger’. My research for the Sarabande arrangements included collecting and notating all the 3-note and 4-note chords that J.S. Bach wrote in his Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. In Part 1 they chords are presented in the order […]

Table of Contents Sarabande No. 1 – English Suite No. 3, BWV 808 Sarabande No. 2 – English Suite No. 1, BWV 806 Sarabande No. 3 – English Suite No. 2, BWV 807 Sarabande No. 4 – French Suite No. 6, BWV 816 Sarabande No. 5 – English Suite No. 6, BWV 811 Sarabande No. […]

This edition offers a simple and clear method of how to deal practically with the rhythmic intricacies of the Medieval Ars Subtilior repertoire. With examples from notoriously difficult pieces such as ‘Le greygnour bien’, ‘Sus un fontayne’, ‘Sumite Karissimi’ and ‘Amour m’a le cuer mis’, musicians will be led through a pragmatic guide to how […]

These overdubbed piano transcriptions can be heard on Fred Thomas’ ECM New Series album ‘Three or One‘. Table of Contents 01. Cantata ‘Der Herr denket an uns‘  – Sinfonia (BWV 196) 02. Cantata ‘Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht‘ – Aria ‘Wie zittern und wanken der Sünden‘ (BWV 105) 03. Cantata ‘Weichet nur, […]

Jazz leads sheets of the music of 19th Century German opera composer Richard Wagner, transcribed/transformed by Fred Thomas. Huge dramatic scenes are boiled down to discreet miniatures, each expressed on one or two sides of A4, ripe for improvisation. Table of Contents 01. Prelude (Parsifal) 02.Wedding March (Lohengrin) 03. Overture (Tannhäuser) 04. Prelude to Act […]