Cello and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14020990

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 1999. 80 pages. Chester Music #CH58933. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020990).

ISBN 9780711923904. 5.5x7.5x0.283 inches.

If Davies's Cello Concerto has already evoked comparisons with Elgar's, that is perhaps an indication not only of its wealth of solo melody (there is hardly a page where the cello is not singing, or if not that, then dancing), and of its predominantly slow tempos, but also of its musical stature. This second Strathclyde concerto is a virtuoso piece for the entire ensemble, which is used almost throughout as a clutch of soloists rather than as a tutti block. The general tone is one of passionate but interior dialogue, especially in the opening Moderato and the slow movement; and though the finale is more extrovert, the work ends back in quietness and rumination.

Violin and Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.14008406

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 94 pages. Chester Music #CH60978. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008406).

ISBN 9780711948716.

A work for solo violin and orchestra, commissioned by Donald McDonald for the 21st birthday of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the 60th birthday of the composer. It was first performed in November 1993 in Glasgow, by James Clark and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxwell Davies. The spell is one quoted by George Mackay Brown in his book An Orkney Tapestry: 'Let not plough be put to acre except a fiddle cross first the furrow.' Davies's dancing concerto imagines the fiddler following a route from field to field, from dance to dance, accompanied by a bunch of companions in the form of an orchestra. As the music goes on, so it gets brighter and livelier, moving from the dark colouring of clarinets, bassoons and strings to full ensemble with prominent brass and (solo) tuned percussion, as if the dancers as much as the fields were beginning to glow with new life. Score (miniature). Duration c. 20mins.

Cello and orchestra

SKU: LM.JJ08132

Composed by Roger Albin. Classical: 20th Century (Contemporary). Score. Editions Jobert #JJ08132. Published by Editions Jobert (LM.JJ08132).

ISBN 9790230808132.

Cello and orchestra

SKU: LM.29232

Composed by Bruno Mantovani. Classical: 20th Century (Contemporary). Score. Editions Henry Lemoine #29232. Published by Editions Henry Lemoine (LM.29232).

ISBN 9790230992329.

Violin and orchestra (Solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.0.0 - timp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-16110

Urtext from the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag). Composed by Johannes Brahms. Edited by Linda Correll Roesner and Michael Struck. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Solo concerto; Romantic; Late-romantic. Full score. 216 pages. Duration 35'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 16110. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-16110).

ISBN 9790004214374. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Johannes Brahms's only violin concerto, one of the most important violin concertos of the 19th century, is now a central repertoire piece. This fact is all the more notable, as, by his own account, Brahms understood all too little about the instrument. The concerto was composed at Worthersee during the summer of 1878 in collaboration with Joseph Joachim, a leading contemporary violinist. The solo part is extremely demanding, with really unusual difficulties. This circumstance did not go unnoticed by the critics of the first performance: Even to Joachim, the battled-seasoned wrestler, the technically difficult and tricky solo part was to be mastered only with obvious effort. Evidencing this close collaboration between composer and performer is not only the work's genesis and publication history, together with its dedication to Joachim, but also its solo cadenza. Based on the New Brahms Complete Edition, this Urtext edition includes both the printed version of Joachim's cadenza as well as its shorter version arranged in 1885 by the violinist Marie Soldat.

Violoncelle and orchestra

SKU: LM.JJ17660

Composed by Suzanne Giraud. Classical: 20th Century (Contemporary). Score. Editions Jobert #JJ17660. Published by Editions Jobert (LM.JJ17660).

ISBN 9790230817660.