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.
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.
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.
Quintet Piano et Orchestre 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/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 2.2.2.2. - 4.2.3.0. - timp - str) <...(+)
Piano/harpsichord and
orchestra (solo: pno -
2.2.2.2. - 4.2.3.0. -
timp - str)
SKU:
BR.PB-4960
Composed
by Pjotr Iljitsch
Tschaikowsky. Orchestra;
Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Solo
concerto; Romantic. Full
score. 120 pages.
Duration 32'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 4960.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.PB-4960).
ISBN 9790004207451. 10
x 12.5 inches.
The
roller coaster of
opinions - worthless,
absolutely unplayable
(claims Nikolaj
Rubinstein, basically
Tchaikovsky's desired
pianist for his Concerto
in B flat minor);
brilliant, magnificent
(Hans von Bulow, then
first performer and
dedicatee of the work) -
demonstrates the work's
initially ambivalent
reception. Tchaikovsky's
Piano Concerto No.1 is
one of the most powerful
and popular compositions
of the classical music
repertoire altogether;
and it is also quite
unconventional and runs
counter to the norms of
the time. Though it may
seem strange to us today,
let us recall that during
his lifetime, Tchaikovsky
was regarded disputable
abroad (and especially in
Germany), was considered
an ultra-modern Russian
composer, and was even
accused of being a
musical nihilist and
primitivist. But one
glance at the score of
the piano concerto
suffices to reveal its
truly amazing character
...