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.
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.
Composed by Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805). Edited by Alessandro Bares. Paperback....(+)
Composed by Luigi
Boccherini (1743-1805).
Edited by Alessandro
Bares. Paperback. Minghen
dal Viuluzel. Baroque,
Galant. Score and set of
parts (strings: 3/3/2/4).
Published by Musedita
Edizioni Musicali
(M8.BO-4-478).
Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Orchestra;
Softcover.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
From
a letter sent by Leopold
Mozart to his son, it
would appear that
Wolfgang Amadeus
delivered this Adagio
as a single movement
to the Salzburg violinist
Antonio Brunetti in 1776
after Brunetti found the
original middle movement
too scholarl. Solo
concerto; Classical. Full
score. 8 pages. Duration
8'. Breitkopf and Haertel
#PB 4854. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-4854).
ISBN
9790004206522. 9 x 12
inches.
There is
considerable evidence to
support the claim that
the present Adagio in E
major is an alternative
middle movement intended
for the well-known
A-major Violin Concerto
K. 219. Ultimately,
Mozart decided to leave
the work (written in
1775) as it was, without
change.The violin part of
the present edition
contains - also in the
tutti sections - the
upper part of the
orchestra, thus leaving
it up to the soloist to
decide whether he should
pause here or join
in.
From a letter
sent by Leopold Mozart to
his son, it would appear
that Wolfgang Amadeus
delivered this Adagio as
a single movement to the
Salzburg violinist
Antonio Brunetti in 1776
after Brunetti found the
original middle movement
too scholarly..
Cello and Orchestra SKU: HL.14023249 Composed by Arne Nordheim. Music Sal...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14023249
Composed by Arne
Nordheim. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 46 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH29746.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14023249).
ISBN
9788759861981.
11.75x16.5x0.45 inches.
English.
Tenebrae
(1982), a single-movement
cello concerto,
commissioned and
premiered by Rostropovich
who praised the composer
for his fine
understanding and command
of the rich timbre of the
instrument. It is a
convincing and almost
nightmarish work
containing music which
leaves a tremendous
impact on the listener.
Not least in the central
section where ghastly and
terrifying apparitions
are invoked out of the
darkness. The final
poetical section of the
work is directly inspired
by the description of the
closing movement of
Leverkuhn's Cantata in
Thomas Mann's Doktor
Faustus.
Cello and Orchestra SKU: BT.ALHE32207 Composed by Henri Dutilleux. Classi...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: BT.ALHE32207
Composed by Henri
Dutilleux. Classical.
Score Only. 137 pages.
Heugel & Cie #ALHE32207.
Published by Heugel & Cie
(BT.ALHE32207).
French.
Henri
Dutilleux (1916-2013) was
greatly influenced by his
contemporaries, Ravel,
Debussy and Roussel, yet
implemented his own,
unique style. His Cello
Concerto, Tout un monde
lointain, is considered
to be one of the most
important20th century
additions to the
instrument's repertoire.
This Dutilleux Concerto
comprises five movements
which run seamlessly in
to one-another, each
inspired by the poetry of
Charles Baudelaire. The
movements are: 1)
Énigme(Enigma), 2)
Regard (Gaze), 3) Houles
(Surges), 4) Miroirs
(Mirrors), and 5) Hymne
(Hymn). Tout un monde
lointain was first
performed in July 1970 by
Russian cellist, Mstislav
Rostropovich with the
Orchestre de Paris. The
pieceremains popular to
this day, and including
the entire orchestral
score, this edition is
essential to the advanced
cellist's repertoire.
Cello and Orchestra SKU: HL.14020990 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14020990
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Composed
1999. 80 pages. Chester
Music #CH58933. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14020990).
ISBN
9780711923904.
5.5x7.5x0.283
inches.
If Davies's
Cello Concerto has
already evoked
comparisons with Elgar's,
that is perhaps an
indication not only of
its wealth of solo melody
(there is hardly a page
where the cello is not
singing, or if not that,
then dancing), and of its
predominantly slow
tempos, but also of its
musical stature. This
second Strathclyde
concerto is a virtuoso
piece for the entire
ensemble, which is used
almost throughout as a
clutch of soloists rather
than as a tutti block.
The general tone is one
of passionate but
interior dialogue,
especially in the opening
Moderato and the slow
movement; and though the
finale is more extrovert,
the work ends back in
quietness and
rumination.