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.

Piano, Orchestra

SKU: FG.042-08428-1

Composed by Usko Merilainen. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08428-1).

ISBN 979-0-042-08428-1.

Kinetic Poem is, after two piano concertos and Dialogues for piano and orchestra, Merilainen's fourth and latest work (1981) in which the piano plays a concertante role. The piano-orchestra relationship is synergetic: small motifs, which draw their material from the spectacular solo part, are rotated by the orchestra and change their form, only to he absorbed back into the relentless solo stream.

(Piano Solo And Chamber Ensemble). By Jason Eckardt (1971-). For piano solo, flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet in Bb, violin, violoncello. Full score. 40 pages. Published by Carl Fischer

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).

Béla Bartók composed his Piano Quintet while at grammar school in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava), and it still shows the influence of Brahms in its melody and harmony. The work was always resoundingly successful at his youthful concerts. When on 7 January 1921 the Waldbauer Quartet wanted to repeat the programme of a concert given ten years previously, Bartók was displeased that this early work of his should be performed once again. Finally he consented to the performance, and played the piano part himself. The quintet was greeted with tumults of applause, unlike the other pieces on the programme, which were written later. According to a communication by Márta Ziegler,Bartók threw away the score in anger, and for many years it was believed to have been destroyed. In 1963, the editor Denijs Dille received a package inside which were the score and parts, which had been thought lost. Denijs Dille wrote: 'In preparing the text of this edition for practical purposes, I used the autograph score, and Bartók's own handwritten parts for the first and second violins, viola, and cello. [...] Bartók made so many deletions and significant changes in the score that the resulting version was somewhat different from the original. In this edition we give the last version, supplemented with the minor changes and signs that can be found in the string parts.'.

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) - 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..

By Witold Lutoslawski. For Piano Solo, Orchestra. 20th Century. Sheet Music. 128 pages. Published by Chester Music.

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).

11.5x16.5x0.26 inches.

By Witold Lutoslawski. For Piano Solo, Orchestra. 20th Century. Sheet Music. 44 pages. Published by Chester Music.

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. Sheet music. Full score. Op.1. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #DOHR 28906. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.DOHR-28906).

ISBN 9790202019061.

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).

ISBN 9790203918219.

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).

ISBN 9790203917946.

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).

ISBN 9783795772604. UPC: 841886021464.

Schum ann: Concerto in A minor, Beethoven: Concerto No. 3, Brahms: Concerto No. 2, Grieg: Concerto in A minor, Mozart: Concerto No. 23, Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1, Beethoven: Concerto No. 4, Chopin: Concerto No. 1, Chopin: Concerto No. 2, Liszt: Concerto No. 1.

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).

ISBN 9790048003439.

Piano and orchestra (2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Klar, 2 Fg, 2 Ventil-Hr, 2 Ventil-Tr, Ten.-Pos - Pauken - Str.) - difficult

SKU: HL.49018984

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).

ISBN 9790001171373.