Szymanowski - Violin Concerto No.1 Op.35 $189.95 - $750.00 REPRINT SERIES Considered one of the first modern violin concertos, it rejects traditional tonality and romantic aesthetics. The work is dedicated to the violinist Pavel Kochański. This work is the first modern violin concerto – the first to...
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.40 3rd version (1941) $149.95 - $595.00 This is the 3rd version revised and republished by Rachmaninoff himself in 1941. It is the most performed version of this work. Following its unsuccessful premiere (1st version), the composer made cuts and other amendments before publishing it in 1928...
Hindemith - Konzertmusik for Brass and Strings Op.50 $89.95 REPRINT SERIES Hindemith - Konzertmusik für Streichorchester und Blechbläser Op.50 It was one of a large group of pieces commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by its music director, Serge Koussevitzky...
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.3 for Piano and Orchestra $179.50 - $750.00 It is the only Bachiana written in the form of an instrumental concerto. It is in fact a fully-fledged piano concerto about 30 minutes in length, and in four movements. As usual the four movements have a formal "Bachian" title in Portuguese, followed by...
Kreisler - Liebesleid for Violin and Orchestra $450.00 Score & Parts Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) was performed very often by Kreisler himself as an encore at his concerts. It is one of Kreisler's most beloved violin works.
Honegger - Concerto da Camera $79.50 Concerto da camera (H 196) is a concerto in three movements for the unusual combination of flute, English horn, and string orchestra written by Arthur Honegger late in his career in 1948. Honegger described the movements as such: "The first part is based...
Poulenc - Piano Concerto in C-Sharp minor FP 146 $849.99 Poulenc: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C-Sharp minor FP 146I. AllegrettoII. Andante con motoIII. Rondeau à la française Although cast in three movements, it is a world away from the classical concerto. This is largely on...
Falla - Harpsichord Concerto $225.00 This spiky neo-Classical Concerto for Harpsichord defies everyone's expectations. Most listeners anticipate the Impressionism of Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain or the Romantic Spanish color of The Three-Cornered Hat. Harpsichordist Wanda...
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1 Op.10 $77.50 - $199.95 REPRINT SERIES A one-movement concerto, it is the shortest of his five complete piano concertos, lasting only around a quarter of an hour. The first and last sections have a clear thematic relationship, as the concerto begins and ends with the same...
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3 Op.26 $125.00 - $399.99 REPRINT SERIES The concerto radiates a crisp vitality that testifies to Prokofiev's inventive prowess in punctuating lyrical passages with witty dissonances, while maintaining a balanced partnership between the soloist and orchestra. Of the five piano...
Ibert Concertino da Camera $140.00 - $499.95 Concertino da Camera pour Saxophone Alto et Onze Instruments ("Short concerto for alto saxophone and eleven instruments") was written by Jacques Ibert during the year 1935. The work is in two movements, the first, Allegro con moto, is lively and...
Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante Op.125 $150.00 - $595.00 Also known as Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125, it is a reworking of the Cello Concerto Op.58. This "Sinfonia Concertante" is a large-scale work for cello and orchestra, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich. The three movements are all...
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1 Op.19 $99.95 - $325.00 REPRINT SERIES The Violin Concerto No.1 is a pivotal work, one which displays a maturation of the composer. If one compares this Concerto to Prokofiev's earlier piano concertos, it is easy to see that the former is decidedly more natural in its thematic...
Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor FP 61 $159.99 - $649.99 Often described as the last work of Poulenc’s early period, the composer himself wrote to the Belgian musicologist Paul Collaer: "You will see for yourself what an enormous step forward it is from my previous work and that I am really entering my...
Bartok: First Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra SZ.87 $75.00 REPRINT SERIES The First Rhapsody is dedicated to Hungarian virtuoso violinist Joseph Szigeti, a close friend of Bartok. Bartók evidently composed both rhapsodies purely as a personal gesture, rather than on commission, and did so without telling...
Martinu: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra H.207 $495.00 The Concerto for string quartet with orchestra was composed in Paris in 1931 for the Belgian Quatuor Pro Arte to which Béla Bartók had already dedicated his fourth string quartet. The work keeps the string quartet distinct from the...
Martinu: Oboe Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra $125.00 - $429.50 The concerto is quite traditional, both in terms of its fast-slow-fast structure and in terms of the composer's personal aesthetic; the style is instantly recognizable as Martinu's: broad, wistful melodies soar over percolating rhythms with the...
Vaughan Williams - Concerto Accademico for Violin and Orchestra $329.50 Score and Set of Parts (String count 4.4.3.3.2) This work is clearly an homage to Bach, specifically to his Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, a composition Vaughan Williams deeply loved and admired. The concerto is cast in three movements, with the...