To Hire or Purchase:

To hire or purchase a set of parts, please enter the following information in our form:

  1. Your name and your email address, so we can contact you
  2. Name of Orchestra/Ensemble
  3. Name of Conductor (if applicable)
  4. Number of performances
  5. Time and Date of performance(s)
  6. Location of concert including town/city and country
  7. Link to advertising or to tickets (if possible)

Note that none of this information changes the price you pay (unlike other publishers!) - we just want to know in order to spread the word of your performances.

Our hiring and purchasing fees are transparent. We use the following figures to calculate a fair price for hiring our music:

  1. Professional orchestras who record or broadcast pay £33.55 per minute of music 
  2. Other professional orchestras pay £23.50 per minute of music
  3. Amateur orchestras pay £10.00 per minute of music

If you are a professional orchestra based in the UK you can request access to PDFs of parts prior to the first rehearsal on the proviso they are deleted immediately after the performance. This does not apply to non-professional orchestras nor orchestras based outside the UK.

Purchasing a complete set of parts is a good way to reduce costs if you believe you will perform the work many times. The pricing is as follows:

  1. Cost per part (1 of each wind, brass, percussion, keyboard, and strings of suitable strength): £9.00
  2. Additionally, cost per minute: £18.00

When purchasing a set of parts, you will receive a complimentary conductor's score, and if applicable, a reduction.

OUR SIZES

  • STANDARD - B4 (35cm x 25cm) - designed to be easy to read on a music stand whilst still delivering all the detail you need.
  • COMPACT - A4 (30cm x 21cm) - designed to be easy to read at the piano

OUR PRODUCTS

  • All of our scores are presented to modern typesetting standards and are professionally printed on high-quality paper.
  • We use soft plastic spiral coils to allow the music to sit flat on music stands and to allow for silent pageturns.
  • Orchestral parts are taped using P90 archivists' tape for durability and silence.
  • All score purchases come with free UK shipping; there is an international surcharge of £11.49 to account for the higher postage costs involved.

My background as a professional orchestral musician has taken me to many beautiful concert halls, but it has also shown me many appalling sets of music. From parts littered with errors, inconsistencies, or sloppy presentation, all the way to a part that had the top inch sellotaped back on after a significant tear. All this - from many of the largest music publishers! I do better.

My ethos as a publisher has always been to place the musician first. What does a musician need? Clean, legible parts with the best possible pageturns; all mannerisms clarified and all mistakes rectified, and a balance between what the composer wrote and what they intended. 

This review sums up my approach best:

“the score is truly beautiful, managing very well to reconcile the aesthetics of publication with the practical needs of a performer/listener”

Every score in the Bax Edition comes with the following:

  • A beautiful dark-green front cover with a suitable work of art in the centre;
  • A full historical purview of the piece;
  • A short analysis of the work discussing its main musical ideas;
  • The score - critically-edited and ready for performance;
  • My critical remarks, so you can understand the editorial journey the piece has been on;
  • A discussion of the sources used to create the edition