SKU: HL.50510086

ISBN 9790080400715. UPC: 073999621211. 5.5x8.0x0.091 inches. Hungarian, English, German. Bela Bartok.

'Dances of Transylvania is the orchestral version of 'Sonatina' (1915). In Sonatina, Bartok had arranged Romanian instrumental (chiefly bagpipe) music. The three movements of the work, 'Bagpipers', 'Bear Dance' and 'Finale' comprise five melodies. Bartok explained that each of the two melodies of the first movement had been played by two pipers, the second by a peasant violinist using the lower strings of the instrument to reproduce the sounds of a bear, and the two melodies of the 'Finale' again by two violinists. In the orchestral version Bartok was out to reproduce the original sonority created by the peasants.' (HCD 32505 Bartok New Series Vol. 5, Virag Buky).

SKU: BT.EMBZ40015

Debussy decided in 1892, at the age of thirty, to compose a work for orchestra after Mallarmé's poem, L'aprés-midi d'un faune. Originally he had thought of writing three movements (Prélude - Interlude - Paraphrase) but when the first movement was completed in September 1894 he came to the conclusion that the continuation would be superfluous.The Prélude was first performed in Paris with Gustave Doret as conductor on 22 December of the same year yet, as it achieved immediate succes it had to be repeated. Source for the present edition was the first printed score (1895) which had been revised by the composer. Debussy's original, French expressions and markings have been retained.

SKU: HL.50487546

ISBN 9790080132937. Octavo (19 x27 cm) inches. Hungarian. Istvan Vantus.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14815

In the past decade the Budapest Klezmer Band and the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra have proved in their joint concerts that the melodic world of the instrumental music of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe and an ensemble consisting of the clarinet, piano, accordion, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion can be successfully combined with the sound of the classical orchestra. Ferenc Jávori's Klezmer Suite has become part of the repertoire of both ensembles, and has scored notable success both in Hungary and abroad. The printed edition made the work accessible for other ensembles as well. The movements can also be performed separately.

SKU: BT.EMBZ40076

SKU: HL.50510026

ISBN 9790080400722. UPC: 073999679762. 5.5x8.0x0.326 inches. Gabor Darvas.

Inspired by his friend, the composer Balakirev Tchaikovsky decided in 1869 to write an overture to Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet. The work was completed the same year and received its premiere soon thereafter, on March 4th, 1870 in Moscow under the direction of Nikolay Rubinstein. Following the performance the composer worked over the piece again at Balakirev's instigation: he wrote a new introduction and altered the return and the end, too. The new version was first performed under the baton of Napravnik in St Petersburg on February 5th, 1872. By that time it had become clear that the composition was closer to the genre of symphonic poem than to that of a theatrical preludewhich is also indicated by the subtitle: 'fantasy overture'. In the 1880s Tchaikovsky carried out further changes in the score and thus the third version of Romeo and Juliet emerged that was first performed by Ippolitov-Ivanov as conductor in Tbilisi on April 19th, 1886.

SKU: BT.EMBZ8116

German.

SKU: HL.50485100

ISBN 9790080143384. UPC: 073999639308. 9.0x12.0x0.488 inches. Joseph Franz Haydn; Andras Soos.

This latest volume in the series is devoted mainly to works written by Joseph Haydn in his youth: dances, divertimento and quartet-movements, arranged for three violins and cello. Every part can be played in the first position.

SKU: HL.50488367

ISBN 9790080057292. A/5 (14,2x20) inches.

SKU: HL.50488095

ISBN 9790080400593. 5.75x8.0x0.228 inches. Karoly Goldmark.

SKU: HL.50488131

ISBN 9790080042014. A/5 (14,2x20) inches.

SKU: HL.50487187

ISBN 9790080124741. K/4 (23,5x31) inches. Zoltan Jeney.