Stravinsky: Praeludium for Jazz Ensemble $199.95 REPRINT SERIES About half of Praeludium was composed in Paris, the remainder having been worked out during one of Stravinsky's trips to the United States in early 1937. With a work as concise and...
Finzi: Farewell to Arms Op.9 $299.95 Perhaps one of Finzi's finest compositions, this pacifist masterpiece is all too rarely performed. The beautiful music, scored for tenor and small orchestra, was composed over a span of about 20...
Poulenc: Litanies a la Vierge Noire $9.95 - $250.00 REPRINT SERIES Litanies à la Vierge noire (French pronunciation: [litani a la vjɛʁʒ nwɑʁ]; "Litany to the Black Virgin"), FP 82, is a piece of sacred music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1936 for a...
Prokofiev Symphony No.2 Op.40 $199.95 - $895.00 REPRINT SERIES Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, in Paris in 1924-25, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and...
Bartok: Viola Concerto $750.00 REPRINT SERIES The Viola Concerto in A minor, Sz. 120, BB 128 (also known as Concerto for Viola and Orchestra) was one of the last pieces written by Béla Bartók. He began composing his viola...
Stravinsky: Scherzo à la Russe $349.99 REPRINT SERIES The Scherzo à la russe was first conceived as a work for film use, as it was intended to be featured in The North Star. When the film project was aborted,he arranged this symphonic...
Finzi: Romance Op.11 $199.99 Highly passionate in character and rich in its melodic invention, Finzi’s writing here is characteristically open-hearted and approachable. From the stillness of the opening, the music unfolds,...
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto $189.99 - $799.99 REPRINT SERIES Igor Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D is a neoclassical violin concerto in four movements, composed in the summer of 1931 and premiered on October 23, 1931. It lasts approximately...
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète $549.99 REPRINT SERIES Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between...
Sibelius: Cassazione Op.6 $149.99 - $495.00 Cassazione, Op. 6, is an orchestral composition by Jean Sibelius, composed in 1904 for the programme that introduced his Violin Concerto. Its title refers to the cassation, a genre similar to the...
Dupré: Cortège et Litanie Op.19 No.2 $379.99 REPRINT SERIES First published as Op. 19, No. 2 (one of a set of four piano pieces), it was used as incidental music for a play in 1922, and eventually arranged by the composer for organ and...
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...
Finzi: Introit for Violin and Orchestra $249.99 Finzi, who constantly revised his own work, could not bring himself to rest contentedly with the outer movements of his Violin Concerto. However, the central section became established during the...
Tomasi: Ballade for Saxophone and Orchestra $495.00 REPRINT SERIES Ballade for Alto Saxophone and Piano was composed in 1938 by the French composer Henri Tomasi (1901-1971). Introduced by a poem by Suzanne Mallard, his wife, Ballade is a 15-minute...
Finzi: Prelude for Strings $99.95 REPRINT SERIES Finzi's Prelude for String Orchestra Op.25, was originally conceived in the 1920s as the opening movement of a (subsequently uncompleted) chamber symphony, to be entitled The Bud, the...
Finzi: Cello Concerto Op.40 $795.00 The last phase of Finzi’s output following the 2nd World War saw a series of larger scale works culminating in the completion of the Cello Concerto, the work which dominated his final year and was...
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...
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.2 Op.61 $159.95 - $595.00 REPRINT SERIES This concerto came about because of Szymanowski’s long-standing partnership with the legendary violinist Paweł Kochański, who’d previously collaborated with him on his D Minor Violin...
