Bassoon and Piano

SKU: HL.14020992

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 60 pages. Chester Music #CH60945. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020992).

ISBN 9780711936805. 9.0x12.0x0.185 inches.

Unusually for him, Davies starts his Bassoon Concerto not with slow music but with speed and brilliance: the opening is a Presto, initiated by the strings, and only at the entry of the soloist does the tempo relax to that of a real introduction. Out of this grow a big dancing Allegro. The slow movement begins and ends with a simple song, around fantastical ornamentation from the soloist. The finale is again a recitative and dance, with a slow coda. The whole work is an immense show of stamina, poetry and athleticism for the bassoon, set against an orchestra coloured by low wind (alto flute, clarinet in A, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horns). Bassoon part with piano reduction of the orchestral score.

For Bassoon and Piano. By Scott Joplin. Arranged by Wolfgang Birtel. This edition: ED20464. Woodwind. Book only. 18 pages. Published by Schott.

Violin, cello, piano

SKU: BR.SON-421

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Salome Reiser. Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. 292 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 421. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-421).

ISBN 9790004802663. 9 x 12 inches.

Nearly an entire decade lies between the first mention (1831) and the printing (1840) of the Trio op. 49. Mendelssohn kept trying to set it to paper, but he was probably again making too many demands on this work, his first in the piano trio genre. Yet his efforts were immediately rewarded: It is the master trio of the present, and Mendelssohn the Mozart of the 19th century, proclaimed Robert Schumann, who was also to compose a landmark D minor Trio seven years later. Mendelssohn's second Trio op. 66 was composed with a relatively light hand in 1845. Over and beyond the familiar Trios opp. 49 and 66, the corresponding volume of the Leipziger Mendelssohn-Ausgabe contains sketches and drafts in the same scoring, which were not further developed.