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.
Full Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Scor...(+)
Full Score.
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score Only.
Composed 2017. 80 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH32201. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.232526).
Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 1.2.0.2. - 2.0.0.0. - timp - str) <...(+)
Piano/harpsichord and
orchestra (solo: pno -
1.2.0.2. - 2.0.0.0. -
timp - str)
SKU:
BR.PB-14560
Urtext
based on the new Complete
Edition (G. Henle
Verlag). Composed by
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Edited by Hans-werner
Kuthen. Orchestra;
Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Solo
concerto; Classical. Full
score. 80 pages. Duration
24'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 14560.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-14560).
ISBN
9790004211014. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Beethoven's
autographs of the first
three piano concertos
opp. 15, 19 and 37 are
the earliest of all
orchestral scores which
have survived integrally.
Thanks to source studies,
we know today that a
first version of the
Concerto in Bb major op.
19 had already originated
in Bonn in 1790 at the
latest. It was followed
by a second version
written in Vienna most
likely in 1793 which
included the Rondo in Bb
major WoO 6 as finale. A
third version followed
most probably in 1794 and
led to the fourth and
final version, written in
Prague in October 1798,
as Beethoven sojourned
there at the beginning of
the concert season. (from
the Preface)This
autograph together with
the autograph solo part
which was made at the
beginning of 1801 and the
parts printed in the same
year, are the main
sources of the present
edition.
Piano, orchestra SKU: SA.41762 Composed by Antonin Dvorak. Edited by Berk...(+)
Piano, orchestra
SKU:
SA.41762
Composed by
Antonin Dvorak. Edited by
Berkovec. Arranged by
Vilem Kurz. Original
Works, Concerto,
Instrumental Solo.
Reprint Source: Prague:
SNKLHU, 1956. Plate H
1790. Romantic, Czech.
Study score. Composed
1876. 260 pages. Duration
38-40 minutes. Petrucci
Library Press #41762.
Published by Petrucci
Library Press (SA.41762).
ISBN 9781608741762.
9.5 x 12.5
inches.
Composed in
the late summer of 1876,
Dvorak's first effort at
a full-blown concerto
shows signs of an unusual
amount of revision in the
composer's hand -
especially for the solo
piano part. This might
explain the delay in the
concerto's premiere,
which was given at the
Provisional Theatre in
Prague on March 24, 1878
with Karel Slavkovsky as
soloist accompanied by
the Provisional Theatre
Orchestra under the baton
of Adolf Cech. The
composer himself wrote: I
see I am unable to write
a Concerto for a
virtuoso; I must think of
other things. The
ungainly solo part no
doubt also played a role
in the work's dely in
publication, which didn't
take place until 1883.
Even after this, and
despite much beauty in
the music itself,
performances were scarce
due to the difficulty and
charchter of the solo
part. The solo part was
revised heavily by the
Czech pianist Vilem Kurz
(1872-1945), whose
version was premired by
his daughter Ilona
KurzovA! and the Czech
Philharmonic on December
9, 1919 and is the one
most often performed
today. This new study
score is a digitally
enhanced reissue of the
full score first
published in 1956 by the
Czech State Publishers as
part of the Dvorak
collected works, edited
by Jiri Berkovec and
Karel Solc, which
includes both the
composer's original solo
part and the re-arranged
one made by Kurz. Unlike
so many of the on-demand
scores now available,
this one comes with all
the pages and the images
have been thoroughly
checked to make sure it
is readable. As with all
PLP scores a percentage
of each sale is donated
to the amazing online
archive of free music
scores and recordings,
IMSLP - Petrucci Music
Library.
Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (Solo: pno- 1.2.0.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp - str) S...(+)
Piano/harpsichord and
orchestra (Solo: pno-
1.2.0.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp
- str)
SKU:
BR.PB-15123
Urtext. Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Edited by Ernst
Herttrich. Orchestra;
Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
In
Cooperation with G. Henle
VerlagEB
10825 is printed in score
form; two copies are
needed for performance.
Our ed
ition EB 8579
contains a Ferrucci
Busoni cadenza for the
Piano. Solo concerto;
Classical. Full score. 88
pages. Duration 33'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
15123. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-15123).
ISBN
9790004212738. 10 x 12.5
inches.
The C major
Concerto K. 503 was held
in particularly high
esteem by Mozart, who,
for example, put it on
the program of his
subscription concert at
Leipzigs Gewandhaus in
1789, three years after
it was written. This new
edition is based on the
autograph and also takes
into account the first
edition published by
Constanze Mozart at her
own cost in 1797.The
editorial quality of the
new edition is guaranteed
not only by Schiffs
sensitive fingerings and
stylistically
well-grounded cadenzas,
but also by the Mozart
scholar Ernst Herttrich
to whom Henle has
entrusted its urtext
editions.Breitkopf/Henle
cooperation means: Each
work is edited according
to predetermined
standardized editorial
guidelines. First and
foremost among the
sources consulted were
Mozarts handwritten
scores, being the most
important sources. In
some cases they had not
been available when the
previous editions were
being prepared. Moreover,
we know today that in
addition to Mozarts own
manuscripts, early copies
in parts and prints also
contain important
information regarding the
musical text.