Violin and Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.14008396 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwe...(+)
Violin and Orchestra
(Score)
SKU:
HL.14008396
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 112 pages. Chester
Music #CH55780. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14008396).
ISBN
9780711921337.
8.5x12.0x0.533
inches.
This work
was commissioned by the
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra to celebrate
its 40th birthday. The
first performance took
place in June 1986 at St.
Magnus' Cathedral,
Kirkwall, as part of the
tenth St. Magnus
Festival. Written for and
first performed by Isaac
Stern, Davies's Violin
Concerto brings together
two streams in his music:
symphonism and
folk-fiddling. In its
strongly developed
substance, it asks to be
measured in the company
of Beethoven, Brahms and
Sibelius, while there is
also, particularly in the
middle movement, a strong
element of the Scots
lament. The orchestra is
generally muted in
colour, though there is a
dramatic role for the
timpanist. There are
three movements, played
without a break - this is
only one of many
connections with the
Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto. Duration c.
30mins.
Violin and orchestra (Solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.0.0 - timp - str) SKU: BR.PB-1...(+)
Violin and orchestra
(Solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 -
4.2.0.0 - timp - str)
SKU: BR.PB-16110
Urtext from the new
Complete Edition (G.
Henle Verlag).
Composed by Johannes
Brahms. Edited by Linda
Correll Roesner and
Michael Struck.
Orchestra; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Solo
concerto; Romantic;
Late-romantic. Full
score. 216 pages.
Duration 35'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 16110.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-16110).
ISBN
9790004214374. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Johannes
Brahms's only violin
concerto, one of the most
important violin
concertos of the 19th
century, is now a central
repertoire piece. This
fact is all the more
notable, as, by his own
account, Brahms
understood all too little
about the instrument. The
concerto was composed at
Worthersee during the
summer of 1878 in
collaboration with Joseph
Joachim, a leading
contemporary violinist.
The solo part is
extremely demanding, with
really unusual
difficulties. This
circumstance did not go
unnoticed by the critics
of the first performance:
Even to Joachim, the
battled-seasoned
wrestler, the technically
difficult and tricky solo
part was to be mastered
only with obvious effort.
Evidencing this close
collaboration between
composer and performer is
not only the work's
genesis and publication
history, together with
its dedication to
Joachim, but also its
solo cadenza. Based on
the New Brahms Complete
Edition, this Urtext
edition includes both the
printed version of
Joachim's cadenza as well
as its shorter version
arranged in 1885 by the
violinist Marie
Soldat.
Cello and Orchestra SKU: BT.EMBZ14893 Composed by László Dubrovay. ...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: BT.EMBZ14893
Composed by László
Dubrovay. EMB
Contemporary Music.
Contemporary Music. Book
Only. Composed 2016. 68
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ14893.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14893).
The concerto
was inspired by István
Várdai's play and is
dedicated to him. The
triple movement structure
and the character of the
movements follow the
patterns of classical
concertos, while the
thematic connections
spanning the movements
rather reflect the
structural principles of
Romantic symphonies. In
the first movement, which
resembles the form of a
sonata, the characters of
the themes are
spectacularly separated.
The motif of the main
theme, constructed with
glissandos, is
supplemented by a theme
the composer refers to as
a motif of fate, and the
two together form a
significant contrast with
the minor theme with its
lyrical tone and the
playful, ending
themeresembling a
children's song. The
contrasts between depth
and height, as well as
darkness and light, have
a significant role in all
three movements. The
music of the first
movement gradually rises
to increasingly bright
and higher regions, the
gloomy atmosphere of the
marginal parts in the
second movement is offset
by the tune's
transcendental light in
its central part, while
the rondo theme of the
third movement with its
6/8 metre dance-like
character is supplemented
with motifs of a
contrasting nature from
the earlier
movements.