Orchestra (2 flutes,
oboe, english horn, 2
clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4
horns, trumpet, timpani,
strings) - Moderately
Difficult to Difficult
SKU:
OU.9780193399396
Composed by Ralph Vaughan
Williams. Edited by James
Francis Brown. Orchestral
parts for sale. Study
score. 40 pages. Duration
4.5'. Oxford University
Press #9780193399396.
Published by Oxford
University Press
(OU.9780193399396).
ISBN 9780193399396. 10
x 7
inches.
Originally
intended as the first
piece in a cycle of four
impressions entitled In
the New Forest, Burley
Heath was written in 1902
but never finished. The
manuscript represents a
168-bar fragment, which
James Francis Brown, the
editor of this edition,
has completed by
inserting a
recapitulation of the
initial material.
Orchestra SKU: AP.12-0571539092 For Ten Players. Composed by Tom C...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
AP.12-0571539092
For Ten Players.
Composed by Tom Coult.
Chamber Ensemble; Larger
Works; Masterworks;
Performance Music
Ensemble. Faber Edition.
20th Century; Masterwork.
Score. Faber Music
#12-0571539092. Published
by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571539092).
ISBN 9780571539093.
English.
These
mature and well-crafted
pieces for an ensemble of
ten players showcase Tom
Coult's ear for
beguiling, burnished
sonorities and his
ability to harness the
most complex of technical
devices to rich emotional
ends. Whilst his musical
schemas are often
audacious and innovative,
the security and light
touch with which Coult
carries them out ensures
that his Four Perpetual
MotionsM are always as
expressive as they are
impressive. Coult was one
of the winners of the
2012 Royal Philharmonic
Society Composition Prize
and was consequently
commissioned to write
this 13-minute work for
the Philharmonia's Music
of Today Series.
Orchestra SKU: BA.BA06861 Sinfonie (1923-1928). Composed by Leos J...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
BA.BA06861
Sinfonie
(1923-1928). Composed
by Leos Janacek. Arranged
by Leoš Faltus and
Miloš Štedron. This
edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Complete Critical
Edition of the Works of
Leos Janacek H/3.
Complete edition, Score,
Set of parts. Duration 40
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA06861_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA06861).
ISBN 9790260104211.
34.3 x 27 cm
inches.
Leoš
Janácek’s
symphonic fragment Dunaj
(The Danube) dates from
the period of the
composition of
“Katya
Kabanovaâ€. The
composer was not
concerned with a
musical-picturesque
description of a river
landscape, but with the
mythical link between
women’s destinies
and
water.
“Pale
green waves of the
Danube! There are so many
of you, and one followed
by another. You remain
interlocked in a
continuous flow. You
surprise yourselves where
you ended up – on
the Czech shores! Look
back downstream and you
will have an impression
of what you have left
behind in your haste. It
pleases you here. Here I
will rest with my
symphony.†Thus
Leoš Janácek
described the idea behind
the composition project
which occupied him in
1923/24. However, after
further work, it remained
incomplete in 1926. His
“symphonyâ€
entitled Dunaj has
survived as a
continuously-notated,
four-movement bundle of
sketches in score form.
It is one of the works
which occupied him until
his death. The scholarly
reconstruction by the two
Brno composers Miloš
Štedron and Leoš
Faltus closely follows
the original
manuscript.
A
whole conglomeration of
motifs stands behind the
incomplete work. What at
first seems like a
counterpart to
Smetana’s Vltava,
in fact doesn’t
turn out to be a musical
depiction of the Danube.
On the contrary, the
fateful link between the
destiny of women, water
and death permeates the
range of motifs found in
the work. It seems to be
no coincidence that
Janácek, whilst
working on the opera
Katya Kabanova, in which
the Volga, as the river
bringing death plays an
almost mythical role,
planned a Danube
symphony, and that its
content was linked with
the destiny of women: in
the sketches, two poems
were found which may have
provided the stimulus for
several movements of the
symphony. He copied a
poem by Pavla
Kriciková into the
second movement, in which
a girl remarks that
whilst bathing in a pond,
she was observed by a
man. Filled with shame,
the young naked woman
jumps into the water and
drowns. The outer
movements likewise draw
on the poem
“Lola†by the
Czech writer Sonja
Špálová,
published under the
pseudonym Alexander
Insarov. This is about a
prostitute who asks for
her heart’s
desire: she is given a
palace, but then goes on
a long search for it and
is finally no longer
wanted by anyone. She
suffers, feels cold and
just wants a warm fire.
Janácek adds his
remark “she jumps
into the Danube†to
the inconclusive
ending.
To these
tangible literary models
is added Adolf
Veselý’s verbal
account which reports
that the composer wanted
to portray “in the
Danube, the female sex
with all its passions and
driving forcesâ€.
The third movement is
said to characterise the
city of Vienna in the
form of a
woman.
It is
evident that in his
composition, Janácek
was not striving for a
simple, natural lyricism.
The River Danube is
masculine in the Slavic
language –
“ten Dunajâ€
– and assumes an
almost mythical
significance in the
national character,
indeed often also a role
bringing death. The four
movements are motivically
conceived. Elements of
sound painting, small
wave-like figures in the
first movement, motoric,
driving movements in the
third are obvious
evocations of water. And
the content and the
literary level are easy
to discover. The
“tremolo of the
four timpaniâ€,
which was amongst
Janácek’s first
inspirations, appears in
the second movement. It
is not difficult to
retrace in it the fate of
the drowning bather. The
oboe enters lamentoso
towards the end of the
movement over timpani
playing tremolo, its
descending figure is
taken over by the flute,
then upper strings and
intensified considerably.
The motif of drowning
– Lola’s
despair – returns
again in the fourth
movement in the clarinet,
before the work ends
abruptly and
dramatically.
One
special effect is the use
of a soprano voice in the
motor-driven third
movement. The singer
vocalises mainly in
parallel with the solo
oboe, but also in
dialogue with other parts
such as the viola
d’amore, which
Janácek used in
several late works as a
sort of “voice of
loveâ€.
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Urtext
based on the Complete
Edition Jean Sibelius
Works (JSW). Composed
by Jean Sibelius. Edited
by Tuija Wicklund.
Orchestra; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Symphony; Early modern;
Late-romantic. Full
score. 96 pages. Duration
40'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5694.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.PB-5694).
ISBN 9790004216316. 10
x 12.5 inches.
In
the fall of 1909 Sibelius
wrote in his diary: At
Koli! One of the greatest
impressions in my life.
Plans [for] 'La
Montagne'! These plans
proved to be for the
Fourth Symphony. The
composition process was
not an easy one and in
the end - according to
his diary - Sibelius was
struggling with God! and
only just able to finish
the work in time for the
premiere in spring 1911:
My new symphony is a
total protest against
present-day compositions.
Nothing - absolutely
nothing of the circus [in
it]. This extraordinary
work was at first found
difficult to understand
although its technical
brilliance was
recognized. The
appreciation of the
Fourth has, however,
grown in the course of
years.
Cello; Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.280392 Cello and Orchestra Stud...(+)
Cello; Orchestra (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.280392
Cello
and Orchestra Study
Score. Composed by
Brian Elias. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 68 pages.
Duration 1500 seconds.
Chester Music #CH83886.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.280392).
UPC: 888680971069.
8.5x11.75x0.281
inches.
The Cello
Concerto is in four main
sections that are played
without a break. As with
most of my work, the
music throughout is
generated from the ideas
presented in the fi rst
few bars, and these ideas
and their variants appear
freely in the different
sections. Recurring
material and references
to earlier sections are
used deliberately to
create not only a sense
of unity but also an
impression of familiarity
that aspires to induce a
dream-like perception of
the passing music, a kind
of spiral. The piece
opens with a slow
introduction that
gradually quickens into
the first main section,
an allegro. The form of
the second section, which
is in a lighter mood, is
based on an early 13th
century verse form, the
Sestina, which consists
of six stanzas of
sixlines each, followed
by an envoi. The words
that end each line in the
first stanza are rotated
in a strictly prescribed
pattern* to give the
line-endings of the
remaining stanzas; in
this adaptation, each
line consists of four
bars, and the repetitions
ensue according to the
plan. The intricate
repetition inherent in
this form can also be
seen as a form of spiral.
The third section is an
extended slow movement
interrupted by a quicker
episode that refers to
the fi rst section.
Generally lighter and in
a similar vein to the
second section, the final
section includes a
reference to the slow
movement before returning
to the lighter music that
ends the piece. This work
is dedicated to Natalie
Clein.
Tone Poem - Urtext based on the Complete Edition Jean Sibelius Works (JSW). C...(+)
Tone Poem - Urtext based
on
the Complete Edition Jean
Sibelius Works (JSW).
Composed by Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957). Edited by
Timo
Virtanen. Full score.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#PB-
5658. Published by
Breitkopf
and Haertel
Orchestra
(picc.2.2.2.2.dbl bsn -
2.2.3.0 - timp - str)
SKU: BR.PB-14615
Urtext based on the
Complete Edition (G.
Henle Verlag).
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven. Edited by Jens
Dufner. Orchestra;
Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
The
study score
(,,Studien-Edition) is
available at G. Henle
Verlag.
Symphony;
Classical. Full score.
120 pages. Duration 36'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
14615. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-14615).
ISBN
9790004214909. 10 x 12.5
inches.
The Famous
One in the Leading
EditionBeethoven spent a
relatively long time on
his 5th Symphony. Thus,
first sketches can
already be found from as
early as 1804, four years
before the work was
premiered in Vienna in
December 1808. Not only
impressive is its
striking opening theme,
letting everyone know
immediately that this is
Beethoven being played,
but also its nickname
symphony of fate. Nothing
in the sources prefigures
the much-cited fate,
musically knocking here
at the door. The
autograph of the score
and the set of parts
prepared from it,
including Beethoven's
revisions, serve as the
main sources of this
Urtext edition, together
with the missing copy of
the score, now extant
only incomplete in
photographs, and the
original edition of the
parts authorized by
Beethoven. The new
performance material is
based on the recently
published volume of the
New Beethoven Complete
Edition.