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...
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...
Hindemith - Symphony Mathis der Maler $159.99 - $569.99 REPRINT SERIES Symphony: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) is among the most famous orchestral works of German composer Paul Hindemith. Music from the symphony was incorporated into, or...
Sibelius Symphony No.7 $135.00 - $575.00 REPRINT SERIES Notable for being a one-movement symphony, in contrast to the standard symphonic formula of four movements. The concept of a continuous, single-movement symphony was one Sibelius only...
Ibert Divertissement $150.00 - $295.00 Divertissement is the French equivalent of “diversion,” in the sense of amusement or entertainment; this title Ibert gave to the concert suite he drew from his incidental music to a 1929 production...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.2 for Orchestra W247 $160.00 - $599.95 Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 is the second of a set of nine suites (1930–45) for various combinations of voices and instruments, in which contrapuntal and harmonic techniques in the manner of J.S...
Prokofiev - Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet $99.95 - $385.00 "Montagues and Capulets", known by its proper title as "Dance of the Knights", is a work of classical music written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev for his 1935 ballet "Romeo and Juliet"...
Respighi Feste Romane - Roman Festivals $179.95 - $799.95 It is the third orchestral work in Respighi's "Roman trilogy", preceded by Fountains of Rome (1916) and Pines of Rome (1924). Each of the four movements depict a scene of celebration from Ancient...
