Bassoon and Piano SKU: HL.14020992 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. ...(+)
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.
Violin, cello, piano SKU: BR.SON-421 Complete Works. Composed by F...(+)
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.