Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds) $150.00 - $375.00 Dating from 1927, the work is based on music from 18th-century and represents an attempt to transcribe birdsong into musical notation. The work is in five movements: "Prelude" (based on music of...
Bax - Tintagel, Symphonic Poem $119.50 - $450.00 EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES Tintagel is a symphonic poem composed by Arnold Bax in 1919; it is perhaps his best-known orchestral work. Bax had visited Tintagel Castle during the summer of 1917,...
Prokofiev - Sonata for Solo Violin Op.115 $28.50 It is a little-known fact that Prokofiev's Op.115 Sonata was not originally intended as a work for solo violin, but rather for a group of twenty or so violinists playing in unison, a prevalent...
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending - Romance for Violin and Orchestra $125.00 - $295.00 The orchestral version was written in 1920, dedicated to and premiered by Marie Hall. It is one of the most popular pieces in the Classical repertoire among British listeners. "The Lark Ascending"...
Honegger: Concertino for Piano and Orchestra H.55 $135.00 - $355.00 In reality a ten-minute neo-classical piano concerto in two movements, Honegger's Concertino sports severe "wrong note" harmonies and complex counterpoint within what is actually a rigid framework...
R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No.2 TrV 283 $135.00 - $355.00 The Concerto No.2 for Horn and Orchestra is infused with Strauss' singular lyricism, reflecting the clarity of the composer's Romantic vision amid the strengthening winds of twentieth century...
Ravel - Piano Concerto for Left Hand and Orchestra $130.00 - $425.00 This concerto was commissioned by the prominent Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm due to a wound sustained in World War I. The concerto negotiates several sections in...
Vaughan Williams - Partita for Double String Orchestra $85.50 Based on the piece Double Trio (1938), the composer decided its music would be better-suited to a larger instrumentation. He fashioned the piece for two string orchestras of disproportionate size,...
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.2 Op.63 $169.50 - $595.00 "The number of places in which I wrote the Concerto shows the kind of nomadic concert-tour life I led then. The main theme of the 1st movement was written in Paris, the first theme of the 2nd...
Bartok: Second Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra SZ.90 $120.00 - $365.00 Rhapsody No.2 SZ.90 is the second of two folk dances (often called "Hungarian Rhapsodies") for Violin and Orchestra that Bartók wrote in 1928. The 2nd Rhapsody is dedicated to the violinist Zoltán...
Gershwin - Cuban Overture, Rumba for Orchestra $149.95 - $595.00 Cuban Overture is a symphonic overture or tone poem for orchestra composed by American composer George Gershwin. Originally titled Rumba (named for the Cuban rumba musical genre), it was a result of...
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Suite No.1 Op.64 bis $185.00 - $695.00 Prokofiev extracted three orchestral suites and a set of ten piano transcriptions from his ballet masterpiece "Romeo and Juliet" (one of the most enduringly popular ballets). Suite No. 1 from Romeo...
Holst - Lyric Movement, for Viola and Small Orchestra H.191 $79.50 - $165.00 Written in 1933, this hauntingly beautiful "Lyric Movement" is one of Gustav Holst's last works.
Villa-Lobos Guitar Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra W501 $150.00 - $385.00 Composed in 1951, it was originally called "Fantasia Concertante". World premiere by Andrés Segovia, to whom it was dedicated, and conducted by the composer himself. W501 is the original version for...
Ives - The Unanswered Question $45.50 In Charles Ives's most famous work The Unanswered Question, a miniature he called a "cosmic drama," one finds distilled his revolutionary means, and more importantly the ends of his singular art. The...
Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé, Symphonic Suite Op.60 $179.50 - $529.95 Composed in 1933, for the film "Lieutenant Kijé". The troika is frequently used in films and documentaries for Christmas scenes and scenes involving snow. The suite, in five movements broadly...
Sibelius - The Tempest Op.109 No.1 Prelude $119.50 - $245.00 The Tempest - Incidental Music to Shakespeare´s Play, Prelude Op.109 No.1 was written in 1925-26. The music is said to display an astounding richness of imagination and inventive capacity, and is one...
R. Strauss - Oboe Concerto Op.144 for Oboe and Small Orchestra $150.00 - $495.00 Concerto in D major for Oboe and Small Orchestra, AV 144, TrV 292. Written in 1945, it was one of the last works that Richard Strauss composed near the end of his life, during an "Indian summer"...
