8 miniatures: I. Andantino = 76 II. Vivace = 126 (orig. No.7) attacca III. Lento = 63 (orig. No.6) IV. Allegretto = 126 (orig. No.3) V. Moderato alla breve = 84-88 (orig. No.5) VI. Tempo di Marcia [no marks] (orig. No.2) VII. Larghetto = 68-69 (orig. No...

Ibert: Symphonie Marine is a vivid orchestral composition by French composer Jacques Ibert, composed in 1929. The work is an impressionistic portrayal of the sea, characterized by its vibrant orchestration and contrasting moods. Divided into three...

REPRINT SERIES The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street, is a short composition by American composer Charles Ives. This revised orchestrated version premiered in 1934 and is scored for a chamber orchestra, consisting of a flute,...

"Specter of the Rose" is a 1946 film noir thriller written and directed by Ben Hecht. It stars Judith Anderson, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Michael Chekhov, and Lionel Stander, with choreography by Tamara Geva, and music by George Antheil.

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 years from the 1920s to 1944, as memories and realities...

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 three-part choir of women (or children) and...

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 version in 1945. The defining characteristics of...

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 orchestra. Cortège consists simply of an opening...

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 composer’s lifetime as a piece in its own right. It...

The Interlude for oboe and strings was composed during the mid 1930s, originally for string quartet; later Finzi created an expanded instrumentation for string orchestra as an alternative. It is a 13-minute work of considerable substance,...

REPRINT SERIES Ionisation (1929–1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists. It was among the first concert hall compositions for percussion ensemble alone, although Alexander Tcherepnin had composed...

The Clarinet Concerto, Finzi’s most widely performed and recorded orchestral work, shows his particular empathy for this solo instrument. Here the clarinet’s equal facility for sustained legato melody and rapid virtuosic figuration is...

Poulenc's Organ Concerto has become one of the most frequently performed pieces of the genre not written in the Baroque period. The piece uses such comparatively small forces, relative to Poulenc's other concertos (the Concert champêtre used a...

Fritz Kreisler's Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) is one of his most beloved compositions, originally written for violin and piano and later arranged for violin and orchestra. A poignant reflection on lost love, the piece is imbued with a bittersweet lyricism...

This spiky neo-Classical Concerto for Harpsichord defies everyone's expectations. Most listeners anticipate the Impressionism of Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain or the Romantic Spanish color of The Three-Cornered Hat. Harpsichordist Wanda...

Respighi's greatest masterpieces,  the three Roman tone poems:   Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma) Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, En.H., 2 Cl, B.Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 3 Tbn, Tba, Timp, Perc, Organ (ad lib.), Cel., 2 Harps, Strings Pines of Rome (I...

EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES Villa-Lobos wrote a total of 17 string quartets and was working on an eighteenth at the time of his death in 1959. None of the quartets appear as mere compositional exercises but rather as displays of Villa-Lobos's ability to...

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