Shostakovich: Symphony No.2 Op.14 $129.99 - $675.00 The symphony is a short (about 20 minutes) experimental work in one movement; within this movement are four sections, the last of which includes a chorus. In a marked departure from his First...
Waxman: Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani $699.95 In the words of the composer, The Sinfonietta was written on board the S.S. Christoforo Coloumbo en route from New York to Europe. I was going to Europe for a conducting tour which included an...
Bacewicz: Partita for Orchestra $119.99 - $650.00 REPRINT SERIES The Partita dates from 1955, after Bacewicz had recovered from a serious car accident in the fall of 1954 that led to a lengthy hospital stay. The neoclassical traits apparent in her...
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana Seconda, Divertimento for Violin and Orchestra $475.00 Luigi Dallapiccola was spurred to write his Tartiniana seconda, for violin accompanied by either piano or orchestra, by violinist Sandro Materassi; hoping for a sequel to Dallapiccola's...
Vaughan Williams: Coastal Command Suite $199.95 - $849.99 Coastal Command is a 1942 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command.Coastal Command is a...
Herrmann: Sinfonietta for Strings $499.95 Herrmann, for all his Angst, was a New Yorker born and bred. His Sinfonietta was composed in 1936, just before his film career took off. It contains what Steven Smith, Herrmann's biographer,...
Shostakovich: Symphony No.1 Op.10 $135.00 - $699.99 While Shostakovich wrote this piece as his graduation exercise from Maximilian Steinberg's composition class, some of the material may have dated from considerably earlier. The immediate parallel to...
Villa-Lobos: Alvorada na floresta tropical (Dawn in the tropical forest) $119.99 - $595.00 Alvorada na floresta tropical W513 was commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra and written in 1953. In form it is an overture whose performances take eight to eleven minutes.Its form is...
Prokofiev: Symphony No.4 Op.47 First Version $169.99 - $839.99 REPRINT SERIES Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 is actually two works, both using material created for The Prodigal Son ballet. The first, Op. 47, was completed in 1930 and premiered that November; it...
Milhaud: Ode pour Jerusalem Op.440 $115.00 - $535.00 Three-movement work composed for the Festival Of Israel, 1972.
Prokofiev: 2 Choral Songs (2 Poems of Balmont) Op.7 for Women's Chorus and Orchestra $29.99 - $550.00 REPRINT SERIES The text to both songs comes from one of Prokofiev's favorite poets, Konstantin Balmont. The two choruses in this set were entitled "The White Swan" and "The Wave." The former was...
Honegger: Les Aventures do Roi Pausole, Symphonic Suite $125.00 - $545.00 Les aventures du roi Pausole (The adventures of King Pausole) is an opérette in three acts with music by Arthur Honegger and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on the 1901 novel by Pierre...
Vaughan Williams: Benedicite for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra $49.99 - $650.00 REPRINT SERIESVaughan Williams often tended to focus on the composition of works in a specific genre at certain periods in his career. In 1913, for example, he wrote incidental scores to no less than...
Szymanowski: Symphony No.1 Op.15 in F minor $139.99 - $799.99 It is fair to say that Szymanowski’s First Symphony (1906–07) was something of a reverse in his creative fortunes and is best regarded as a flawed if valiant attempt to write on a larger orchestral...
Prokofiev: On the Dnieper, Sur Le Borysthène - Symphonic Suite Op.51a $159.99 - $745.00 Prokofiev extracted an orchestral suite from the On The Dnieper Op. 51, using six of its twelve movements. This Symphonic Suite is sometimes identified as Op.51a or Op.51bis depending on the catalog,...
Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra W524 $545.00 In 1955, Heitor Villa-Lobos was commissioned by John Sebastian to write a harmonica concerto, and the piece was premiered in in Jerusalem on October 27, 1959, a month before Villa's death...
