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...
Ibert - Flute Concerto $145.00 - $475.00 Ibert's Concerto was dedicated to Moyse,a student of the great French flutist and teacher Paul Taffanel, for whom many of the greatest French flute works were written. But Moyse didn't play it often, in fact, the work lay neglected for many years due to...
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.2 Op.16 $85.50 - $650.00 It remains one of the most technically formidable piano concertos in the standard repertoire. The first and last movements are each around twelve minutes long and constitute some of the most dramatic music in all of Prokofiev's piano concertos...
Honegger: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra H.72 $145.00 - $419.50 Of the three concertante works that Honegger composed, this is the only one without a diminutive in the title. Ironically, it is one of Honegger's most light-hearted, even amusing scores. It is tuneful and rhythmically vital.The soloist is given...
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.5 Op.55 for Piano and Orchestra $89.50 - $549.95 Prokofiev's last piano concerto dates from 1932 and is in five short movements.The longest, a Larghetto, is around seven minutes in length. The remaining four movements are all in a fast tempo and feature virtuoso keyboard writing; the third movement,...
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.53 for Left Hand and Orchestra $150.00 - $449.99 Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931. The concerto has four movements, lasting around 24 minutes. Wittgenstein did not understand...
Villa-Lobos: Fantasia for Saxophone and Small Orchestra $135.00 - $295.00 This concerto, written in 1948 for the French virtuoso Marcel Mule, stands as the cornerstone of the rather limited repertoire for soprano saxophone. It is without a doubt the most popular piece for this member of the saxophone family.