Solo
concerto; Romantic. Full
score. 120 pages.
Duration 30'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 32026.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-32026).
ISBN
9790004215142. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Finally
performable again Eduard
Franck's Piano Concerto
in D minor Op. 13 is the
first major orchestral
work by this Mendelssohn
pupil. The pianist,
already celebrated at a
young age, had early
plans for the piano
concerto that he
completed at the latest
in 1846. Contemporary
critics emphasized the
catchy motives and the
balanced relationship of
solo instrument to the
orchestra. Ignaz
Moscheles was impressed
by the noble manner, the
poetic ideas, and the
orchestration. Thanks to
the kind support of the
Accademia di Santa
Cecilia, in whose library
the orchestral parts,
once thought to be lost,
are preserved, the work
can be introduced for the
first time in the present
edition.
Quintet Piano et Orchestre [Conducteur et Parties séparées] EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)
String Orchestra and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ6338 Composed by Bela Bartok. Set ...(+)
String Orchestra and
Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ6338
Composed
by Bela Bartok. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
1970. 304 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest
#EMBZ6338. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ6338).
Piano and Orchestra SKU: HL.14030961 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sal...(+)
Piano and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14030961
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 96 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00980.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030961).
ISBN
9788759857458.
English.
Score of
the Danish Composer's
Concerto for Piano and
Orchestra written in
1996. Bent Sorensen
writes: 'The title of
this piano concerto came,
as usual, very early to
me, when my thoughts
about the work had
started to circulate, but
before 'real' music was
written down. I held on
to the Italian title,
even though its
association with Vivaldi
had no influence on my
music, and even when
German, French, English,
and Danish titles
covering almost the same
content -'Nachtmusik',
'Nocturne', 'By Night',
'Om Natten', were just
about to get the upper
hand. The piano concerto
has, then, in my opinion,
something to do with
night, but to describe
this further is at least
as difficult to me as it
is to defend the final
Italian title against
those which were
rejected. The Piano
Concerto is in two
movements. The first,
swarming, is perhaps the
mystery of the night, and
the second perhaps the
dreams of the night; with
this, however, I have
already given the
concerto a more
programmatic content than
I can defend. Each
movement ends with a
cadenza and perhaps the
last of those - the
ending of the work that
is - is inspired by a
sequence from Bruce
Chatwin's wonderful book
'The Viceroy of Ouidah':
Or the Amazons howling.
'No, No, No. It was not
the leopard that killed
him. Not the buffalo that
killed him. It was night.
Night that killed
him!'.