Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes for Violoncello and Orchestra $775.00 In this engaging work Vaughan Williams takes advantage of the expressive possibilities of the cello, ranging from wistful and melancholic to lively and jovial. It was composed in 1929 and premiered the following year by its dedicatee, the legendary...
Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Major $189.99 - $935.00 REPRINT SERIES The Piano Concerto in C is a concertante work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1926 (movements 1 & 2) and 1930-31 (movement 3). During the intervening years, the composer completed Job: A Masque for Dancing and began work on his...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Cello Concerto in G minor Op.72 $189.95 - $1,049.95 Inspired by the personality, prodigious technique and musicality of the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Cello Concerto in G minor is a work of imposing scale and demanding virtuosity, but also with a rare beauty and warmth of...
Jolivet: Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra $449.95 André Jolivet wrote his first Flute Concerto in 1949. It is scored for solo flute and strings and was premièred on 24 January 1950 by soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal. This concerto now part of the standard flute repertoire and several prominent...
Poulenc: Concert Champêtre for Harpsichord and Orchestra $174.95 - $699.99 REPRINT SERIES Poulenc's Concert Champêtre for Harpsichord (or Piano) and Orchestra was written in 1927–28 for the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska who said she "adored" playing it as it made her "insouciant and gay!" Landowska was responsible...
Milhaud: Cello Concerto No.1 Op.136 $649.99 Composed in 1934, the Cello Concerto No.1 is not only the frist composition for cello by Milhaud, but also the most popular. It was dedicaated to Maurice Maréchal, who premiered it in Paris on June 28th 1935. This concerto was one of Grégor...
Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra $119.95 - $575.00 REPRINT SERIES The Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra was written by Igor Stravinsky in Nice between 1926 and 1929. The score was revised in 1949. Stravinsky designed the Capriccio to be a virtuosic vehicle which would allow him to earn a living from...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No.2 Op.66 "I Profeti" $189.95 - $995.00 Among Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s important, large-scale Judaically incited concert works is his second violin concerto (Op. 66), which he subtitled I profeti (The Prophets). Its three movements are further subtitled with reference to two biblical...
Bacewicz: Cello Concerto No.1 $139.95 - $599.95 REPRINT SERIES Bacewicz's Cello Concerto No. 1 was written 1951, following a commission from Miloš Sádlo, an eminent Czech cellist of international renown. The piece reflects a stylistic tendency most vividly manifested in Sonata No. 1...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto No.2 Op.160 $449.95 REPRINT SERIES Castelnuovo-Tedesco Concerto in C Major for Guitar and Orchestra No.2 Op.160, also known as Concerto Sereno. Because of his Jewish background, Castelnuovo-Tedesco had to leave Italy in the 1930's when Mussolini and the fascists came to...
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music $16.99 - $799.95 ORIGINAL CHORAL VERSION 1938 Serenade to Music is an orchestral concert work completed in 1938 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, written as a tribute to conductor Sir Henry Wood. It features an orchestra and 16 vocal soloists, with lyrics...
Finzi: In Terra Pax Op.39 $19.95 - $549.99 The accompaniment of this piece exists in two versions:A version - for strings, harp (or piano) and cymbals, which is intended for performance with a small chorus. B version - for full orchestra (instrumentation as listed above) which is the version...
Respighi: Piano Concerto in A minor $169.99 - $659.99 REPRINT SERIES There are plentiful ingredients in Respighi’s Piano Concerto in A minor. Rhapsodic flourishes, triumphal declamations, huge, dense chords and passages of lyrical contemplation. Written in 1902, when he was in his early twenties, it...
Martinu: Sinfonia Concertante No.2 $479.95 Koncertantní symfonie č.2; Sinfonia Concertante Nr.2, for Solo Oboe, Bassoon, Violin, Cello and Chamber Orchestra with Piano.
Vaughan Williams: Epithalamion $79.95 - $525.00 REPRINT SERIES Epithalamion (which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as ''A nuptial song or poem in praise of the bride and bridegroom'') is a large-scale cantata from 1957 based on Edmund Spenser's love-poem of the same name: musically, it draws...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto No.1 Op.99 $349.99 REPRINT SERIES A few years earlier, between Christmas 1938 and January 1939, Castelnuovo-Tedesco had completed his first Guitar Concerto, Op. 99: the first movement of which was written with the collaboration of Segovia. By making the most of its light...
Prokofiev: The Ugly Duckling Op.18 for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra $675.00 Certainly Prokofiev’s own ‘stories’ for children end happily – and there are quite a number, not merely those recorded here. The first was The Ugly Duckling, a setting of an adaptation (by Nina Meshchersky, Prokofiev’s first...