For 2 Pianos 4 Hands (a set of 2 scores for performance)-George Gershwin's iconic Rhapsody in Blue changed the landscape of American music at its 1924 premiere. Its irresistible fusion of classical and jazz has made it one of the most popular American concert works of all time. For this new edition all available sources at the Library of Congress were consulted including full scores for piano and orchestra as well as two-piano reductions. This edition includes a second copy of the music making it ideal for all concerto settings. Historical background and critical notes on the sources provide a fascinating window into Gershwin's composition process.

Following the Rhapsody In Blues and its instantaneous success Walter Damrosch conductor of the New York Symphony Society commissioned George Gershwin to write a Concerto for piano and orchestra. It was a supreme test but the Concerto in F resulted and was performed for the first time with Gershwin as soloist under Damrosch with the New York Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall December 3 1995.

Carl Vine's Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and first performed by Michael Kieran Harvey with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on 23 July 1997.Available here is the score for 2 pianos solo and orchestral reduction as arranged by Alexander Hanysz.

Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967) was a Czech composer who spent most of his life in the United States becoming an American citizen in 1948. He wrote over 100 works but the only one which has endured to the present day is the 1926 opera Schwanda The Bagpiper which has been preformed in 17 different languages and was performed thousands of times between the wars. The Polka is one of the two orchestral excerpts from Schwanda The Bagpiper which are still regularly performed. It has been arranged here for Piano duet by Joan Trimble. Included are separate scores for each part.

This volume contains two of Beethoven's most loved and widely performed piano concertos printed in the traditional format for two pianos: Piano I is the solo part; Piano II a piano reduction of the orchestral score. Edited by Franz Kullak.

Piano Duets edited by Michael Aston-Part of Oxford University Press' series for Piano four-hands Piano Duets: American Composers includes arrangements of celebrated Chamber and Orchestral works alongside original duets in a survey of prominent composers and styles from the USA.This collection reflects the indigenous influences of jazz ragtime and folk music and of European styles and genres. Authoritative and expertly edited the collection is designed for intermediate pianists (Grades 5-7) and includes an historical and technical commentary on every piece.

Pour récitant et piano à quatre mains-During the visit to Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1940 Poulenc sketched a little piece for the children of his cousins: Sophie Sylvie Benoit Florence and Delphine Périer Yvan Alain Marie-Christine and Marguerite-MarieVillotte and their two friends Marthe Bosredon and André Lecoeur. This took the form of a musical background to Jean de Brunhoff's popular illustrated children's story about Babar a baby elephant whose mother is killed by ahuntsman. Fortunately Babar meets a kind elderly lady who dresses him in a fine suit and gives him an impressive motor-car.However Babar feels homesick for his forests and is pleased when his cousins Arthur and Celeste find him and needs no persuasion to go home with them. Back in the forest where the King of the Elephants has eaten a poisonous mushroom Babar is elected to succeed as King. He marries Celeste and the last we hear of him isthinking of a rosy future as he dreamily looks up at a marvellously star-filled sky.Poulenc's score to which he returned and completed in 1945 is for a narrator and a Piano so written that the individualsections offer the pianist a number of self-contained descriptive pieces such as a Lullaby a Reverie a Galop a Nocturne and so on. Indeed some of Poulenc's finest Piano music isfound in these charming pages.In 1962 Jean Françaix made an orchestral version and Barbar has been enjoyed by children of all ages all over the world. An English translation of the text was made by Nelly Rieu.Thisparticular edition is arranged for Narrator and Piano duet (1 Piano 4 hands) and a separate insert with English translation is included.

Valssi nro 2 sarjasta varieteeorkesterille - Nelikätinen piano. Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. A new arrangement four piano duet (four hands) of Dmitri Shostakovich's famous Waltz no. 2 for Suite for Variety Orchestra divides melody and accompaniment equally between the two voices. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

Piano Concerto no. 4 in c minor op. 44. Despite its unusual form - a structure with two sections, each comprising two movements that are to be played without interruption - this work from 1875 enjoyed great success from the start. In its balanced proportion of solo part to orchestra, it corresponds almost perfectly to the model of the ?symphonic concerto? and numbers among the most popular concerti by this French composer. For the first edition of 1877, no less a figure than Gabriel Fauré undertook the piano transcription of the orchestral part - an optimal basis for Johannes Umbreit?s piano reduction for the first Urtext edition ever of this work. As for the Piano Concerti no. 2 and no. 5 already issued by Henle, Pascal Rogé, one of the greatest experts on Saint-Saëns? piano works, also provided the fingerings for this edition.

Tango Tzigane - Jealousy-Tango Jalousie (Tango Tzigane - Jealousy) - Jacob Gade's classic arranged for Piano Duet (four hands) by conductor Esther Bobrova Lange. From the Preface: It is a common misconception that Tango Jalousie (Tango Tzigane) was written for the movie ”Don Q”. The piece was also played at the movie premiere in Paladsteatret on September 14th 1925 but there was no jealousy-based drama in the movie. Nonetheless the melody was well suited to the Zorro legend in a Mexican setting. But in the book “Jacob Gade – et eventyr i musik” (a fairytale in music) by Jørgen GramChristensen one learns that in a 1956 interview Jacob Gade recounted the incident in 1925 which concerned him very much: “One day the magazines featured a dramatic description of a jealousy-based murder and the word “jealousy” stood for me as a title with which the music became more and more attached.”There are many different arrangements of “Tango Jalousie” but I have always found that there was a need for a piano four hands version of this wonderful piece. In the process of working out a piano four hands version I used the full orchestra score and made sure that the most essential orchestra parts were included. Also the melody parts and accompaniment are equally distributed between the primo and secondo parts. (Esther Bobrova Lange)

The Six Easy Pieces arranged by German composer, conductor, and organist Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748--1798) are inspired by the original vocal/orchestral score of The Magic Flute. These pieces are idiomatic piano duets (one piano, four hands) that remain faithful to the original composition. Filled with wit and charm, they contain many of the memorable elements of the opera: Papageno's magic bells, gentle love duets, tenderhearted trios, and lively arias. Based on the 1793 first edition, Neefe's dynamics, articulations, and phrase marks have been preserved. Editorial suggestions have been given in parentheses and footnotes to aid in performance. / Piano 4 Mains

Cotswold Hill-Tune by Charles Wilfred Orr is a wonderful pastoral tune for Piano 4-Hands that evokes imagery of the English countryside where he spent most of his life. Originally a beautiful and effective piece for string orchestra it has been wonderfully and authentically arranged for Piano Duet with the composers approval by John Mitchell.

Poursuivant la série des ' grandes transcriptions ' pour piano à quatre mains, engagée avec les ' Tableaux d'une exposition ' de Moussorgski et le ' Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ' de Debussy, Bruno Rossignol propose cette adaptation d'une oeuvre, qui est certes peu pianistique sous la plume de l'orchestrateur de génie qu'était Berlioz, mais dont on parvient à retrouver la richesse des timbres de l'orchestre malgré la réduction à un seul instrument, Il y parvient notamment grâce à l'utilisation élargie du clavier à deux interprètes, Familier de cette formation, le transcripteur n'omet rien du texte original, où dominent harpes et cordes en un tourbillon de valse, tout en permettant une exécution adaptée au piano, / Piano À 4 Mains