Full orchestra - Difficult SKU: OU.9780193683167 William Walton Editio...(+)
Full orchestra -
Difficult
SKU:
OU.9780193683167
William Walton Edition
vol. 16. Composed by
William Walton. Edited by
Michael Durnin.
Orchestral parts for
sale. William Walton
Edition. Full score. 256
pages. Oxford University
Press #9780193683167.
Published by Oxford
University Press
(OU.9780193683167).
ISBN 9780193683167. 13
x 10 inches.
This
volume contains newly
edited versions of four
important later
orchestral works by
Walton: Capriccio
Burlesco, Improvisations
on an Impromptu of
Benjamin Britten, Prologo
e Fantasia, and Varii
Capricci. The first three
works were written for
American orchestras; the
last for the opening of
the Royal Festival Hall
in
1976.
Voic
ing Cappricio
Burlesco - picc, 2 fl, 2
ob, ca, Ebcl, 2 cl, bcl,
2 bn, cbn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 2
tbn, btbn, tba, timp, 3
perc (SD, TD, BD, cast, w
blk, cym, whip, xylo,
tamb, bongo), hp, str
Improvisations on an
Impromptu of Benjamin
Britten - 3 fl
(III+picc), 3 ob
(III+ca), 3 cl (III+bcl),
3 bn (III+cbn), 4 hn, 3
tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3
perc (glock, xylo, clash
cym, sus cym, BD, tamb, 3
bongos, SD, MD), hp, str
Prologo e Fantasia - 3
fl, 3 ob (III+ca), 3 cl,
3 bn (IIII+cbn), 4 hn, 3
tpt, 3tbn, tba, timp, 4
perc (SD, cym, BD, xylo,
clash cym), hp, pn, str
Varii Capricci - 3 fl
(III+picc), 2 ob, ca, 3
cl, 3 bn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3
tbn, tba, timp, 3 perc,
cel, hp, str.
About William
Walton
Edition
In
March 2014 Oxford
University Press
published the last volume
in its magnificent
William Walton Edition,
the only complete
critical edition of a
20th-century British
composer's oeuvre. All 24
volumes are handsomely
printed and bound.
Walton's entire output is
now available to scholars
and performers in a
definitive and fully
practical edition, based
on the form in which the
composer ultimately
wished his music to be
performed. The general
editor, David Lloyd-Jones
- the eminent conductor,
English music specialist,
and founder of Opera
North - invited a
world-class expert to
edit each volume.
Carefully researched
introductory essays place
the works in their
historical context and in
the composer's oeuvre,
and there are full
critical notes.
(Baritone/Bass). By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Edited by Paolo Toscano...(+)
(Baritone/Bass). By
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791). Edited by
Paolo Toscano. For
baritone voice solo, bass
voice solo and piano
accompaniment. Universal
JV Classical. Classical
Period. Difficulty:
medium-difficult.
Collection. Vocal melody,
lyrics, piano reduction
and introductory text.
256 pages. Published by
Ricordi
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.414411630 Composed by Shulamit...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.414411630
Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
28+28+20+24+20+24 pages.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#414-41163. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.414411630).
ISBN
9781491114551. UPC:
680160089956. 9.5 x 13
inches.
EXCURSIONS
is a one-movement work
exploring two
“characters.â€
A rhapsodic, descending
passage is introduced by
the cello, followed by
a static,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello.
Their individual
developments are
separated by a slow,
contrasting middle
section. The composer has
written: “This is
analogous to situations
in life: we stand by a
crossroad, choosing one
option and forfeiting the
other. But in art, the
realm of the imagination,
we can perhaps afford to
pursue more than one
route to its ultimate
destination… or can
we? It is symbolic that
in this work both roads
eventually lead to the
same
place.â€. Excursi
ons for violin, cello and
piano, is a one-movement
work of tripartite
structure in which
materials explored in the
first of three large
sections are brought back
in the last section.Â
The traditional
statement-contrast-restat
ement form, which is
readily suggested by such
a description, is,
however, not at all in
the mold in which the
work is cast. Rather,
my aim was to subject the
essential materials of
the piece (two
“charactersâ€
–the rhapsodic,
descending passage played
by the cello in the very
opening and, later, a
static, slow moving,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello) to
two entirely different
developments separated by
a slow, contrasting
middle section. This
is analogous to an
exploration of the
ramifications that two
divergent choices made by
the same person might
lead to. In life, as
we stand by a crossroad,
choosing one option
usually means having to
forfeit the other.Â
But in art, the realm of
the imagination, we can
perhaps afford to pursue
more than one route to
its ultimate
destination…or can
we? It is, I believe,
symbolic that in this
work both roads
eventually lead to the
same place: in composing
Excursions, it seemed
absolutely inescapable
that at the end the slow,
contrasting middle
sections – both
more resigned and
peaceful than the
battling spirits of the
outer parts –
should return briefly to
end the work. The
piano trio combination
(once highly favored, but
to this composer still as
challenging today) is
approached here as a
collaborative effort of
three equal soloists
– partners. Of
the available pairings,
the two strings find
themselves occasionally
approached as a team
pitted against the
piano. The
cello-piano combination
is also not uncommon
here, and there is an
extended violin cadenza
toward the end of the
piece. The writing
for the three instruments
is closely and at times
interlinked, but the
players are all
instructed to play from
scores. Excursions was
first performed at
Brandeis University in
1982.
Violin, Viola and Orchestra SKU: BT.EMBZ14392 Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag. ...(+)
Violin, Viola and
Orchestra
SKU:
BT.EMBZ14392
Composed
by Gyorgy Kurtag. Book
Only. Composed 2005. 56
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ14392.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14392).
The 24 minutes
long work consists of a
single enormous movement
(...fantasia...) and a
coda containing two parts
(coda: recitativo ed
epilogo). The range of
tone colour in the
composition is
undoubtedly the key
element in its
effectiveness, Kurtág
luxuriates in the
possibilities offered by
the two solo instruments
and the huge orchestra.
His instrumentation is
magical, the
exceptionally big
percussion section is
enriched with the
incomparable sound of a
new instrument, the steel
drum. The concertante was
premiered in 2003 in
Copenhagen by Hiromi
Kikuchi, Ken Hakii and
the Danish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by
Michael Schonwand. In
2006, this work won the
University ofLouisville
Grawemeyer Award for
Music Composition.The
performance rights of the
violin and viola solo
parts have been reserved
for Hiromi Kikuchi and
Ken Hakii.