Kodaly: Peacock Variations $149.99 - $595.00 REPRINT SERIES As admirers of Kodály are aware, the composer was well known for his work in ethnomusicology. The Peacock Variations falls into this vast realm of the composer's output, using a...
Prokofiev: Andante for Strings Op.50bis $199.99 REPRINT SERIES After he departed the Soviet Union in 1918, Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) spent a fair amount of time in the U.S. concertizing. On one such tour in 1930, the Library of Congress...
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite $119.95 The Pulcinella Suite, derived from the ballet, was written in 1922 and has no vocal parts. Pulcinella marked the beginning of Stravinsky's second phase as a composer, his neoclassical period. The...
Stravinsky - Concerto in D for Strings $450.00 REPRINT SERIES Concerto in D ("Basle") for string orchestra was composed in Hollywood between the beginning of 1946 and 8 August of the same year in response to a 1946 commission from Paul Sacher to...
Respighi: Fontane di Roma $120.00 - $550.00 REPRINT SERIES Fountains of Rome or Fontane di Roma is a symphonic poem written by Ottorino Respighi in 1916 and first published in 1918. It is the first orchestral work in his "Roman trilogy",...
Respighi: Metamorphoseon $150.00 - $650.00 Respighi composed Metamorphoseon in 1930, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and it is in fact something of a concerto for orchestra. The 30-minute long work consists of a...
Villa-Lobos: Uirapuru $165.00 - $685.00 Uirapuru is an orchestral piece with an elaborate program about the mythical Uirapuru bird in the Amazon jungle. It's dedicated to ballet choreographer Serge Lifar. It is characteristic of the...
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.2 $119.95 - $450.00 REPRINT SERIES This Suite No.2 was composed in 1923. It was based on pieces for lute, archlute, and viol by Fabritio Caroso, Jean-Baptiste Besard, Bernardo Gianoncelli, and an anonymous composer. It...
Prokofiev - Scythian Suite Op.20 $145.00 - $650.00 REPRINT SERIES The suite is in four movements, and lasts around 20 minutes. It is based on Prokofiev's ballet "Ala e Lolli" (Ala and Lolly).1. Invocation to Veles and Ala - barbaric and colorful...
Strauss - Dance Suite after François Couperin $85.00 REPRINT SERIES The orchestral Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin, TrV 245 consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin...
Strauss - Rosenkavalier Suite $169.99 - $795.00 The suite begins where the opera starts, famously, with the bold, erotic horn music that is "Der Rosenkavalier’s" calling card and always a welcome sound to opera lovers. The suite begins with the...
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...
Bartok: Hungarian Pictures (Sketches) Sz.97 $129.95 - $449.95 The Hungarian Pictures, also known as Hungarian Sketches, are probably Bartók's most popular orchestral transcriptions. Each of the five pieces was originally conceived for the piano. the first two,...
Rachmaninoff - 5 Etudes Tableaux orch. by Respighi $160.00 - $695.00 Serge Koussevitzky asked whether Rachmaninoff would select a group of études-tableaux for Italian composer Ottorino Respighi to orchestrate. He agreed and selected five études from Op. 33 and Op. 39...
Falla: El Amor Brujo, Ballet-pantomine 1925 REVISED EDITION $59.95 - $699.95 Revised in 1920 and finished in 1924-25, Falla transformed El Amor Brujo into a one-act 'ballet pantomímico'; it is in this version that the work is best known to this day. Movements:1. ...
Poulenc - Sinfonietta $159.50 - $495.00 The music is light, even at times satirical, and overflowing with popular turns and dance rhythms. (Ravel is said to have admitted to Poulenc that he envied his ability to “write his own folksongs...
Respighi - Sinfonia Drammatica $179.95 - $895.00 REPRINT SERIES Ottorino Respighi’s hour-long Sinfonia drammatica, which he completed just before the First World War broke out, appears to anticipate the impending tragedy. The brilliantly...
Prokofiev Wedding Suite from "The Stone Flower" Op.126 $169.50 - $895.00 REPRINT SERIES The Stone Flower was the last of Prokofiev’s Soviet ballets, dating from 1948, and is based on a folk tale from the Urals. The Suite contains music of great beauty, with soaring tunes...
