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Acuta Music is a publishing company based in Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK, and run by Robert Kay.
The company specialises in late Elgar Editions, and is the original publisher of the Severn Suite (version for full orchestra), Civic Fanfare, Soliloquy for Oboe, Empire March (original orchestral version), Mina and the King Arthur Suite - six late works which were never made publicly available during the composer's lifetime. Elgar's 1932 arrangement of the Chopin Funeral March and an early oboe work (Andante and Allegro, written when Elgar was twenty-one) are also available.
Orchestral sets of Acuta editions are available from Goodmusic Publishing.
Further information: acutamusic.co.uk
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A Model of Clarity - A new score of Elgar's 'Mina', appraised by Robert Anderson
A Major Pleasure - A new study score of Elgar's 'Empire March', reviewed by Robert Anderson