Herrmann: Sinfonietta for Strings $499.95 Herrmann, for all his Angst, was a New Yorker born and bred. His Sinfonietta was composed in 1936, just before his film career took off. It contains what Steven Smith, Herrmann's biographer,...
Shostakovich: Symphony No.1 Op.10 $135.00 - $699.99 While Shostakovich wrote this piece as his graduation exercise from Maximilian Steinberg's composition class, some of the material may have dated from considerably earlier. The immediate parallel to...
Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 Op.65 $199.99 - $1,199.95 The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4 November of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky,...
Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits $75.00 - $1,199.95 Five Tudor Portraits (1935), by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is a work scored for contralto (or mezzo-soprano), baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra. It sets several poems, or extracts from poems, by the...
Milhaud: Ode pour Jerusalem Op.440 $115.00 - $535.00 Three-movement work composed for the Festival Of Israel, 1972.
Rawsthorne: Symphony No.1 $149.99 - $750.00 Alan Rawsthorne's First Symphony is a thunderous, bounding, jagged affair, relieved by quieter moments of irony.
Martinu: Échec au Roi, Jazz-Ballet in One Act H.186 1930 $189.99 - $995.00 The scenario of Martinu’s 1930 “Echec du Roi” (Checkmate) anticipates that of Stravinsky’s “Jeu de Cartes” (1937), with dancing chessmen taking the place of dancing poker chips. The score mixes...
Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra W524 $545.00 In 1955, Heitor Villa-Lobos was commissioned by John Sebastian to write a harmonica concerto, and the piece was premiered in in Jerusalem on October 27, 1959, a month before Villa's death...
Honegger: Napoléon Symphonic Suite H.64a $169.99 - $799.95 The soundtrack of the 1927 film Napoléon, directed by Abel Gance, was the first film soundtrack ever composed. Published in 1927, Honegger made a selection of movements from the soundtrack of the...
Stravinsky: Renard, histoire burlesque chantée et jouée K023 $499.95 Renard: histoire burlesque chantée et jouée, or The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played, is a chamber opera-ballet for four male voices and 16 instrumentalists written in 1916 by Igor Stravinsky. Its...
Milhaud: Service Sacré for Baritone, Narrator, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra Op.279 $149.95 - $695.00 Milhaud’s Service sacré for baritone (cantor), narrator, mixed chorus and organ or orchestra is one of the few authentic masterpieces of twentieth century liturgical music. Composed in 1947 for San...
Respighi: Belkis, Regina di Saba - Ballet in 7 Scenes $275.00 - $1,499.99 Given Ottorino Respighi’s outstanding mastery in handling the modern orchestra and his superb gifts for impressionist tone-painting (the very qualities cited by the many detractors and adversaries of...
