By Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). Arranged by Douglas McLain. For piano and concert band. Baton Music Instrumental Series. Opus 10. Grade 5. Full score and parts. Duration 16:00. Published by Baton Music

(study score). By Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924). Edited by Antony Beaumont. For Piano, Orchestra and Men's Choir. Breitkopf Full Scores. Study score. 336 pages

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.

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Transcribed by Peter Schmalz. For solo piano and concert band. Solo With Concert Band Accompaniment. Full score and set of parts. Published by Phoebus Publications.

Piano and orchestra

SKU: FG.042-08243-0

Composed by Pekka Kostiainen. Parts. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08243-0).

ISBN 979-0-042-08243-0.

This is a fully-fledged concerto in three movements specially aimed at the young soloist and school/youth orchestra.

(Opus 102). By Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Arranged by Marco Pontini. For piano and concert band. Baton Music Instrumental Series. Grade 4. Full score and parts. Duration 19:00. Published by Baton Music

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 2.2.2.2. - 2.2.1.0. - timp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-4485

Composed by Frederic Chopin. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library).

Frederic Chopin's Piano Concertos in e minor op. 11 and f minor op. 21 were written when the composer had just barely entered his twenties.

EB 3942 is printed in score form; two copies are needed for performance.Have a look. Solo concerto; Romantic. Full score. 68 pages. Duration 30'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 4485. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-4485).

ISBN 9790004203910. 9 x 12 inches.

Frederic Chopin's Piano Concertos in e minor op. 11 and f minor op. 21 were written when the composer had just barely entered his twenties. Since he needed effective, virtuoso works for his major concert appearances with orchestral accompaniment, he decided to simply write them himself. Although it is clear that the piano part always holds center stage in these pieces, Chopin never degrades the orchestra by turning it into a stereotypical cue-giver. This is confirmed by the imaginatively orchestrated tutti transition in the first movement, the lengthy string tremolo in the middle movement and the col legno passage in the finale.The first performance of the f-minor concerto took place in Warsaw on 17 March 1830. The first edition of the score was published in 1879 by Breitkopf & Hartel in Leipzig. The present edition for two pianos by Ignaz Friedmann was first issued in 1913 in the framework of the 12-volume Chopin edition for which the Polish pianist undertook a careful evaluation of the sources.

Frederic Chopin's Piano Concertos in e minor op. 11 and f minor op. 21 were written when the composer had just barely entered his twenties.

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!'.

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/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 3(picc).3(cor ang).2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.perc - hp - cel - str)

SKU: BR.EB-11450

Impresiones sinfonicas - Urtext. Composed by Manuel de Falla. Edited by Ullrich Scheideler. Orchestra; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf.

In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag

Solo concerto; Symphonic poem; Late-romantic; Early modern. Piano reduction. 68 pages. Duration 23'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 11450. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-11450).

ISBN 9790201814506. 9.5 x 12 inches.

Composed by Manuel de Falla during his lengthy residence in Paris, these three symphonic impressions for piano and orchestra are an expressive work bringing the southern Spanish gardens, which are laid out in the European and Arabic-Moorish tradition, to life. The influence of contemporary French music is noticeable in this composition. Despite many modifications, involving among other things, the scoring, number of movements, as well as layout and content, the basic idea of a nocturnal impression is retained from the outset. The work was finished - and likewise the orchestral material - only shortly before its premiere on 9 April 1916, which was a great success. World War I prevented its publication, though further performances followed, played then from manuscript material. The Urtext edition presented by Ullrich Scheideler takes as the main source the first edition of the score. The Critical Report gives detailed information about the source situation.

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 3(picc).3(cor ang).2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.perc - hp - cel - str)

SKU: BR.PB-15153

Impresiones sinfonicas - Urtext. Composed by Manuel de Falla. Edited by Ullrich Scheideler. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library).

In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag

Solo concerto; Symphonic poem; Late-romantic; Early modern. Full score. 92 pages. Duration 23'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 15153. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-15153).

ISBN 9790004215586. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Composed by Manuel de Falla during his lengthy residence in Paris, these three symphonic impressions for piano and orchestra are an expressive work bringing the southern Spanish gardens, which are laid out in the European and Arabic-Moorish tradition, to life. The influence of contemporary French music is noticeable in this composition. Despite many modifications, involving among other things, the scoring, number of movements, as well as layout and content, the basic idea of a nocturnal impression is retained from the outset. The work was finished - and likewise the orchestral material - only shortly before its premiere on 9 April 1916, which was a great success. World War I prevented its publication, though further performances followed, played then from manuscript material. The Urtext edition presented by Ullrich Scheideler takes as the main source the first edition of the score. The Critical Report gives detailed information about the source situation.

String Orchestra and Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ14253

By Lajos Vigh. By Arpad Pejtsik. EMB Music for Beginners. Educational Tool. Book Only. Composed 2000. 92 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ14253. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ14253).

Hungarian-English-Germ an-French.

The volume comprises works by classical and romantic masters for beginners. The chamber ensemble includes violin, viola, violoncello and piano, but if the viola is missing, its part can be played by a second violin from the version enclosed in the appendix. The string parts do not go beyond the first position. As opposed to the basso continuo part that children are less fond of, the piano assumes a soloistic role alternating with the strings. A certain part of the pieces can already be played after two years of serious studies. The colourful music containing dance movements and larger forms alike offers possibilities of common music making for string players andpianists.