Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties $159.95 - $649.99 REPRINT SERIES L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is Ravel's second opera, his...
Respighi Roman Trilogy - Trilogia Romana $425.00 - $1,595.00 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...
Villa-Lobos 17 String Quartets Complete Collection $50.00 - $395.00 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...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.2 for Orchestra W247 $150.00 - $545.00 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. Bach are applied to themes of Brazilian origin. It...
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". Extracted from Suite No.2 Op.64ter
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Op.45 $145.00 - $625.00 REPRINT SERIES The Symphonic Dances Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. It is Rachmaninoff's last composition.The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like...
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition orchestrated by Maurice Ravel $135.00 - $599.99 Mussorgsky's inspiration for Pictures was the death of his dear friend, the architect and visual artist Victor Hartman. Having died at age 39, Hartman had not yet had the opportunity to realize any of his architectural visions, and Mussorgsky was angered...
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 Rome. It is the longest and most demanding of the trilogy...
Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor FP 61 $159.99 - $649.99 Often described as the last work of Poulenc’s early period, the composer himself wrote to the Belgian musicologist Paul Collaer: "You will see for yourself what an enormous step forward it is from my previous work and that I am really entering my...
Ravel: Bolero $110.95 - $475.00 REPRINT SERIES Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece and is Ravel's most famous musical composition.
Bartok: First Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra SZ.87 $75.00 REPRINT SERIES The First Rhapsody is dedicated to Hungarian virtuoso violinist Joseph Szigeti, a close friend of Bartok. Bartók evidently composed both rhapsodies purely as a personal gesture, rather than on commission, and did so without telling...
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite No.3 Op.101 $169.50 - $595.00 Romeo and Juliet Suite No.3 Op.101 has 6 movements and is the briefest of the three suites extracted from the Ballet, lasting just under twenty minutes. 1.Romeo at the Fountain2. .Morning Dance3.Juliet4.The Nurse5.Aubade6.The Death of Juliet
Martinu: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra H.207 $495.00 The Concerto for string quartet with orchestra was composed in Paris in 1931 for the Belgian Quatuor Pro Arte to which Béla Bartók had already dedicated his fourth string quartet. The work keeps the string quartet distinct from the...
Prokofiev - Symphony No.5 Op.100 $179.95 - $795.00 Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, Op. 100, is his biggest, his grandest, and his greatest symphony, a massive and monumental work that celebrates the triumph of all that is decent and virtuous over all that is depraved and immoral. Fourteen years had passed...