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.

(Chopin National Edition). Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Edited by Jan Ekier and Pawel Kaminski. For Orchestra, Piano (Full Score). PWM. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #51600026. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne

(Chopin National Edition Series A Vol. XVf). Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Edited by Jan Ekier. For Orchestra, Piano (Score). PWM. Softcover. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #51600005. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne

Chopin National Edition 18A, Vol. XVb. Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Edited by Jan Ekier and Pawel Kaminski. PWM. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #51600010. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (HL.132234).

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno- 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-32026

Urtext. Composed by Eduard Franck. Edited by James Tocco. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library).

Have a look into PB 32026.

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.

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.'.

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Study score. Opus 19 No. 2. Duration 28 minutes. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP922).

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Study score. Opus 15 No. 1. Duration 40 minutes. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP921).

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Study score. Opus 73 No. 5. Duration 38 minutes. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP925).

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Study score. Opus 58 No. 4. Duration 33 minutes. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP924).

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Study score. Opus 37 No. 3. Duration 34 minutes. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP923).

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 2(picc).2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-15164-07

Urtext. Composed by Edvard Grieg. Edited by E.-G. Heinemann. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Solo concerto; Romantic. Study Score. 108 pages. Duration 30'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 15164-07. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-15164-07).

ISBN 9790004215906. 6.5 x 9 inches.

The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg's oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg's lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto's size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death. Piano reduction and fingering by Einar Steen-Nokleberg.

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 2(picc).2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-15152

Urtext. Composed by Edvard Grieg. Edited by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann. Orchestra; Softcover. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library).

In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag

Solo concerto; Romantic. Full score. 108 pages. Duration 30'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 15152. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-15152).

ISBN 9790004215579. 10 x 12.5 inches.

The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg's oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg's lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto's size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death. Piano reduction and fingering by Einar Steen-Nokleberg.

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 and Wind Ensemble (Morgan Reflections)Piano solo with reduction

SKU: SU.94010541

For Piano and Wind Ensemble (Morgan Reflections)Piano solo with reduction. Composed by James Lee III. Keyboard, Piano/Harpsichord, Woodwinds, Woodwind Ensemble, Orchestra, Piano Reduction. Score. Subito Music Corporation #94010541. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.94010541).

Solo Piano part with piano reduction.

Instrumentation: solo pno: picc, 2fl ob 3cl,bcl bn 2asx 2tsx bsx; 4tpt 4hn 3tbn euph tba; timp 5perc; cb
Duration: 24'
Composed: 2015
Published by: Subito Music Publishing
Performance materials available on rental only from the Subito Music Rental Library.

Composed by Nancy Galbraith (1951-). For Piano and Concert Band (solo piano; 3,1 2 3,bass clarinet 2 2 alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax; 4331, euphonium; 5 percussion, contrabass). Study Score. Duration 21'. Published by Subito Music Corporation

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

(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