Stravinsky: Symphony in C $145.00 - $575.00 REPRINT SERIES The Symphony was written between 1938 and 1940 on a commission from American philanthropist Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. It was a turbulent period of the composer's life, marked by illness and deaths in his immediate family. In 1937,...
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 the 19-year-old composer presenting his first symphony...
Elgar: Great is the Lord Op.67 for Mixed Chorus, Organ and Orchestra $39.95 - $450.00 REPRINT SERIES Though not readily associated with Anglican church music (despite being fully aware of its repertoire), Elgar composed two major extended anthems. The first—Great is the Lord, Op 67, a substantial multi-sectional work, begun...
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, to whom the work is dedicated. It briefly was...
Villa-Lobos: Alvorada na floresta tropical (Dawn in the tropical forest) $119.99 - $595.00 Alvorada na floresta tropical W513 was commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra and written in 1953. In form it is an overture whose performances take eight to eleven minutes.Its form is predictable, though the music itself is anything but. Hushed...
Rawsthorne: Clarinet Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra $329.99 REPRINT SERIES Composed between 1936 and 1937, Rawthorne's Clarinet Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra lasts around 19 minutes and has 4 movements: 1. Preludio2. Capriccio3. Aria4. Invention
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 15th/16th-century poet John Skelton, portraying five...
Stravinsky: Mass for Children's Chorus, Male Chorus and Wind Ensemble $45.00 - $195.00 Igor Stravinsky composed his Mass between 1944 and 1948. This 19-minute setting of the Roman Catholic Mass exhibits the austere, Neoclassic, anti-Romantic aesthetic that characterizes his work from about 1923 to 1951. The Mass also represents one of only...
Prokofiev: Symphony No.4 Op.47 First Version $169.99 - $839.99 REPRINT SERIES Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 is actually two works, both using material created for The Prodigal Son ballet. The first, Op. 47, was completed in 1930 and premiered that November; it lasts about 22 minutes. The second, Op. 112, is too...
Milhaud: Ode pour Jerusalem Op.440 $115.00 - $535.00 Three-movement work composed for the Festival Of Israel, 1972.
Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy for Narrator, Chorus and Small Orchestra $45.00 - $449.99 An Oxford Elegy is a work for narrator, small mixed chorus and small orchestra, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1947 and 1949. It uses portions of two poems by Matthew Arnold, "The Scholar Gipsy" and "Thyrsis". The first performance took place...
Prokofiev: 2 Choral Songs (2 Poems of Balmont) Op.7 for Women's Chorus and Orchestra $29.99 - $550.00 REPRINT SERIES The text to both songs comes from one of Prokofiev's favorite poets, Konstantin Balmont. The two choruses in this set were entitled "The White Swan" and "The Wave." The former was premiered in 1910, with the composer conducting a...
Honegger: Les Aventures do Roi Pausole, Symphonic Suite $125.00 - $545.00 Les aventures du roi Pausole (The adventures of King Pausole) is an opérette in three acts with music by Arthur Honegger and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on the 1901 novel by Pierre Louÿs. It was Honegger's third operatic...
Vaughan Williams: Benedicite for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra $49.99 - $650.00 REPRINT SERIESVaughan Williams often tended to focus on the composition of works in a specific genre at certain periods in his career. In 1913, for example, he wrote incidental scores to no less than seven plays (five by Shakespeare), and in 1920 he...
Rawsthorne: Street Corner Overture $89.99 - $359.99 REPRINT SERIES Rawsthorne’s perky Street Corner Overture (1944), evokes, in the composer’s words, "a Saturday night at the crossroads of a busy industrial town". This is a bubbling, infectious piece and it’s all great fun.
Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing - Ballet in One Act $195.00 - $999.95 Job: A Masque for Dancing is a one-act ballet produced in 1931. The scenario is by Geoffrey Keynes, the choreography by Ninette de Valois, and the music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ballet is based on the Book of Job from the Hebrew Bible and was...