Piano and orchestra SKU: FG.55011-372-5 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Stu...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU:
FG.55011-372-5
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Study score.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-372-5. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-372-5).
ISBN
9790550113725.
Imag
es of the sea figure
prominently throughout my
life and memories: from
holidays on the Atlantic
coast during my Canadian
childhood to my current
Baltic home, and the
imagined, only later
experienced Mediterranean
of my ancestral heritage.
As an immigrant (son of
an immigrant) bound to
two northern countries,
the sea is emblematic of
my twin homelands, from
the expanses of water
surrounding them to those
separating them. A Mari
usque ad Mare. The sea is
also an enduring image of
the unknown, of expanses
unexplored, of the raw
power of nature and, for
too many currently, of
terror holding a hope of
refuge - or the pain of
loss. Such disparate
ideas were captured for
me in the seascapes of
the New York painter
MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom
I met in 2008 during a
residency on the Gulf of
Mexico. Her vast,
abstract, nearly
monochromatic depictions
of imaginary seas in
wildly varying moods were
the catalyst for a
concerto where the piano
is frequently far from a
hero battling a
collective, but rather
acts as a channel for
elemental forces surging
up from the orchestra,
floating - sometimes
barely so - on its
constantly shifting
surface. There are few
themes to speak of,
beyond a handful of
iconic ideas that
periodically cycle
upward. Rather, the
piano's material is
largely an ornamentation
of the more primal
rhythmic and harmonic
impulses from the
orchestra below - a
poetic interpretation, if
you will, of the more
immediate experience of
facing the vastness of
some unknown body of
water. The title
Nameless Seas is borrowed
from one of Thielhelm's
exhibitions, as are those
of the four movements,
which are bridged
together into two halves
of roughly equal weight -
one rhapsodic and free,
the other more
single-minded and direct,
separated only by a short
breath. The opening
movement, Nocturne, is
predominantly calm, if
brooding, darkness and
light alternating
throughout. Lyrical
arabesques sparkle over
gently lapping
cross-currents in the
strings and mirrored
timpani, the piano's full
power only rarely
deployed. The waves
gradually build, drawing
in the full orchestra for
a meeting of forces in
Land and Sea, a brighter,
more warmly lyrical scene
that unfolds in series of
dreamlike, sometimes even
nostalgic visions, which
for me carry strong
memories of sitting on
rocks above surging
Atlantic waves. The third
movement, Wake, is a
fast, perpetual-motion
texture of glinting,
darting rhythms and
sudden shafts of light,
with a prominent part for
the steel drums, limning
the piano's quicksilver
figurations. An ecstatic
climax crashes into a
solo cadenza that grows
progressively calmer and
more introspective rather
than virtuosic. Much of
the tension finally
releases into Unclaimed
Waters, a drifting,
meditative seascape in
which the piano is
progressively engulfed by
a series of ever-taller
waves, ultimately
dissolving into a
tolling, rippling
continuum of sound.
It has been a great
privilege to realize such
a long-held dream as this
piece, and to write it
for not one, but two
great pianists.
Risto-Matti Marin and
Angela Hewitt, both of
whose friendship and
support have been
unfailing and humbling,
share the dedication.
Nameless Seas was
commissioned by the
PianoEspoo festival and
Canada's National Arts
Centre, with the
premieres in Ottawa and
Helsinki led by Hannu
Lintu and Olari Elts.
Thanks are due also to
the Jenny and Antti
Wihuri fund, whose
generous grant provided
me with much-needed time,
and Escape to Create in
Seaside, Florida, the
source to which I
returned to do a large
part of the work.
Eulenburg Audio Score Series, Vol. 97. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar...(+)
Eulenburg Audio Score
Series, Vol. 97.
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791). Edited by
Paul Badura-Skoda. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music with
CD. Eulenburg Audio
Score. Classical. Study
score CD, Softcover
with CD. Composed 1785.
197. 136 pages. Duration
29'. Eulenburg Edition
#EAS197. Published by
Eulenburg Edition
(HL.49045171).
Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (picc.2.2.cor ang.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp - perc(4)...(+)
Piano/harpsichord and
orchestra (picc.2.2.cor
ang.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp
- perc(4) - hp - str)
SKU: BR.PB-15160
Urtext. Composed
by Sergej Rachmaninow.
Edited by Norbert
Gertsch. Orchestra;
Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Variations; Solo
concerto; Late-romantic;
Early modern. Sheet
Music. Duration 22'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
15160. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-15160).
ISBN
9790004215654. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Paganini's
Capricci served as
inspiration for many
composers. In addition to
Brahms, Schumann and
Liszt, Rachmaninoff was
also inspired by the
idea. His Rhapsody on a
Theme by Paganini has
since become one of his
best known and most
popular works and was an
immediate success. In
1934, between two intense
concert seasons,
Rachmaninoff took
advantage of the peace
and quiet at his villa on
Lake Lucerne to compose
the Variations.
Paganini's virtuosity and
joy of playing are
juxtaposed with the
Gregorian sequence Dies
irae. A symbol of the
evil spirit to which
Paganini sold his soul?
At least that is how
Rachmaninoff wrote it in
a letter to the
choreographer Fokine. For
the demanding piano part,
the composer and
celebrated pianist
himself had to start
practicing very early:
The composition is very
difficult, and I should
really start practicing
now, but I get lazier
with my finger exercises
year after year.The
editor, Norbert Gertsch,
presents with this
edition for the first
time an Urtext edition of
the work that Joachim
Kaiser described as
Rachmaninoff's most
spiritual, witty, elegant
work for piano..
Piano and orchestra (2(picandafl).1.2(2.bcl). 1(cbsn)-0.2.3.0-2(or4)per c(2tam-t...(+)
Piano and orchestra
(2(picandafl).1.2(2.bcl).
1(cbsn)-0.2.3.0-2(or4)per
c(2tam-t, tub bells,
2cym.ant, 6trgl, b.d,
3rins on timp, 2gongs,
vib,
s.d)-2hp-str(24.0.10.8.4)
)
SKU: HL.49044458
Concerto for piano and
orchestra. Composed
by Toshio Hosokawa. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Softcover. Composed
1998-1999. Duration 17'.
Schott Music #SJ10028.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49044458).
Piano and orchestra SKU: HL.49011963 Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited ...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: HL.49011963
Composed by Robert
Schumann. Edited by Akio
Mayeda and Bernhard R.
Appel. This edition:
Full-cloth binding. Sheet
music. Robert Schumann -
Neue Ausgabe samtlicher
Werke. Classical. Score.
Op. 54. 305 pages.
Schoenberg #RSA1007-10.
Published by Schoenberg
(HL.49011963).
ISBN
9783795793197. UPC:
073999799019.
10.0x13.25x1.268
inches.
Schumann's
Piano Concerto is known
all over the world, yet
despite its popularity it
remains in a certain
sense an undiscovered
work. The aim with this
edition is not only to
provide a critical score
of the work, but at the
same time to indicate
what questions of detail
should form the focus of
future research. The
critical analysis offered
here thus offers
discussion of the
relationship between the
one-movement Fantasia
version and the
three-movement concerto
version, the problem of
the transition from the
second to the third
movement and a series of
questions relating to the
version completed in
1853. A booklet of
facsimiles completes the
volume.
Piano and orchestra SKU: M7.DOHR-28906 Composed by Norbert Burgmuller. Sh...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: M7.DOHR-28906
Composed by Norbert
Burgmuller. Sheet music.
Full score. Op.1. MDS
(Music Distribution
Services) #DOHR 28906.
Published by MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
(M7.DOHR-28906).
Piano and orchestra SKU: M7.AV-5946 Composed by Heinz Schreiter. Edited b...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: M7.AV-5946
Composed by Heinz
Schreiter. Edited by Joe
Edwards. This edition:
Saddle-wire stitching.
Sheet music. Piano
reduction, for 2 pianos.
27 pages. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#AV 5946. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) (M7.AV-5946).
Piano and orchestra SKU: M7.AV-5914 Composed by Christian Schmitz-Steinbe...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: M7.AV-5914
Composed by Christian
Schmitz-Steinberg and
Hans Vlig van der Sys.
Edited by Erich Borschel.
This edition: Saddle-wire
stitching. Sheet music.
Piano reduction, for 2
pianos. 20 pages. MDS
(Music Distribution
Services) #AV 5914.
Published by MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
(M7.AV-5914).
Piano and orchestra SKU: HL.49019951 This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. ...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: HL.49019951
This edition:
Paperback/Soft Cover.
Sheet music with CD.
Eulenberg Audio plus
Score. Softcover with CD.
1288 pages. Eulenburg
Edition #EAS11. Published
by Eulenburg Edition
(HL.49019951).
Concerto Piano et Orchestre Music Distribution Services
Piano and orchestra SKU: M7.BMEA-15303 Composed by Francis Poulenc. Sheet...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: M7.BMEA-15303
Composed by Francis
Poulenc. Sheet music.
Piano reduction, for 2
pianos. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#BMEA 15303. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services)
(M7.BMEA-15303).
Viola
Part. Composed by
Robert Schumann. Edited
by Ute Baer. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 1853. Op. 134.
Duration 14'. Schott
Music #ED20816-13.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49018984).
Piano and orchestra SKU: M7.BNOT-15452 Paraphrase über das Dies irae<...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU: M7.BNOT-15452
Paraphrase über das
Dies irae. Composed
by Franz Liszt. Sheet
music. Score. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#BNOT 15452. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services)
(M7.BNOT-15452).