Respighi: Fontane di Roma $120.00 - $550.00 REPRINT SERIES Fountains of Rome or Fontane di Roma is a symphonic poem written by Ottorino Respighi in 1916 and first published in 1918. It is the first orchestral work in his "Roman trilogy",...
Respighi: Metamorphoseon $150.00 - $650.00 Respighi composed Metamorphoseon in 1930, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and it is in fact something of a concerto for orchestra. The 30-minute long work consists of a...
Bartok: Piano Concerto No.3 Sz.119 $195.00 - $750.00 Bartók composed the piece in 1945 during the final months of his life, as a surprise birthday present for his second wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók. It consists of three movements.Piano Concerto No. 3...
Villa-Lobos: Uirapuru $165.00 - $685.00 Uirapuru is an orchestral piece with an elaborate program about the mythical Uirapuru bird in the Amazon jungle. It's dedicated to ballet choreographer Serge Lifar. It is characteristic of the...
Hindemith: Symphony in B Flat Major for Band $99.95 REPRINT SERIES The contrapuntal textures used by Hindemith throughout the symphony highlight many instruments individually. This writing takes advantage of the vast color palette that this...
Bartok: Piano Concerto No.2 Sz.95 $149.95 - $675.00 Bartók’s less hair-raising, but longer, companion to the 1926 concerto. He said he wanted a work “less bristling with difficulties for the orchestra and whose thematic material would be more...
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.2 $119.95 - $450.00 REPRINT SERIES This Suite No.2 was composed in 1923. It was based on pieces for lute, archlute, and viol by Fabritio Caroso, Jean-Baptiste Besard, Bernardo Gianoncelli, and an anonymous composer. It...
Prokofiev - Scythian Suite Op.20 $145.00 - $650.00 REPRINT SERIES The suite is in four movements, and lasts around 20 minutes. It is based on Prokofiev's ballet "Ala e Lolli" (Ala and Lolly).1. Invocation to Veles and Ala - barbaric and colorful...
Weill - Violin Concerto Op.12 $135.00 REPRINT SERIES Kurt Weill: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op.12 The scoring, for an orchestra of winds with prominent percussion, suggests the brilliant, biting sonorities of Weill’s...
Szymanowski - Violin Concerto No.1 Op.35 $189.95 - $750.00 REPRINT SERIES Considered one of the first modern violin concertos, it rejects traditional tonality and romantic aesthetics. The work is dedicated to the violinist Pavel Kochański. This work is the...
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.40 3rd version (1941) $149.95 - $595.00 This is the 3rd version revised and republished by Rachmaninoff himself in 1941. It is the most performed version of this work. Following its unsuccessful premiere (1st version), the composer made...
Strauss - Dance Suite after François Couperin $85.00 REPRINT SERIES The orchestral Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin, TrV 245 consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin...
Strauss - Rosenkavalier Suite $169.99 - $795.00 The suite begins where the opera starts, famously, with the bold, erotic horn music that is "Der Rosenkavalier’s" calling card and always a welcome sound to opera lovers. The suite begins with the...
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.5 $179.50 - $795.00 In style it represents a shift away from the violent dissonance of the Fourth Symphony, and a return to the more romantic style of the earlier Pastoral Symphony. It is also noteworthy as perhaps the...
Prokofiev - Symphony No.6 Op.111 $169.50 - $795.00 The symphony, written as an elegy of the tragedies of World War II, has often been regarded as the darker twin to the victorious Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major.The symphony is in 3 movements (rather...
Hindemith - Konzertmusik for Brass and Strings Op.50 $89.95 REPRINT SERIES Hindemith - Konzertmusik für Streichorchester und Blechbläser Op.50 It was one of a large group of pieces commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by...
Bartok: Hungarian Pictures (Sketches) Sz.97 $129.95 - $449.95 The Hungarian Pictures, also known as Hungarian Sketches, are probably Bartók's most popular orchestral transcriptions. Each of the five pieces was originally conceived for the piano. the first two,...
Rachmaninoff - 5 Etudes Tableaux orch. by Respighi $160.00 - $695.00 Serge Koussevitzky asked whether Rachmaninoff would select a group of études-tableaux for Italian composer Ottorino Respighi to orchestrate. He agreed and selected five études from Op. 33 and Op. 39...
