Violin and Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.14008406

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 94 pages. Chester Music #CH60978. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008406).

ISBN 9780711948716.

A work for solo violin and orchestra, commissioned by Donald McDonald for the 21st birthday of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the 60th birthday of the composer. It was first performed in November 1993 in Glasgow, by James Clark and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxwell Davies. The spell is one quoted by George Mackay Brown in his book An Orkney Tapestry: 'Let not plough be put to acre except a fiddle cross first the furrow.' Davies's dancing concerto imagines the fiddler following a route from field to field, from dance to dance, accompanied by a bunch of companions in the form of an orchestra. As the music goes on, so it gets brighter and livelier, moving from the dark colouring of clarinets, bassoons and strings to full ensemble with prominent brass and (solo) tuned percussion, as if the dancers as much as the fields were beginning to glow with new life. Score (miniature). Duration c. 20mins.

For Cello and String Orchestra. By Julian Lloyd Webber. By Eric Whitacre (1970-). Arranged by Julian Lloyd Webber. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. 16 pages. Chester Music #CH79376. Published by Chester Music

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: 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.

Violin and Orchestra (Violin)

SKU: HL.14036352

Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 94 pages. Chester Music #CH55051. Published by Chester Music (HL.14036352).

8.5x11.75x0.5 inches.

Work for Violin and Orchestra commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Gulbenkian Foundation. Premiered by Manoung Parikian.

Cello and Orchestra

SKU: BT.EMBZ13292

Composed by Janos Decsenyi. Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 1988. 72 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ13292. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ13292).

English-German-Hungari an.

(for Cello and Orchestra). By Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Study Score. Study score. 54 pages

Cello and Orchestra

SKU: BT.WHVI00909

Composed by Erling Brene. Score Only. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WHVI00909. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (BT.WHVI00909).