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Martinu: Échec au Roi Jazz-Ballet in One Act, score and parts

Martinu: Échec au Roi, Jazz-Ballet in One Act H.186 1930

$189.99 - $995.00
The scenario of Martinu’s 1930 “Echec du Roi” (Checkmate) anticipates that of Stravinsky’s “Jeu de Cartes” (1937), with dancing chessmen taking the place of dancing poker chips. The score mixes Stravinskyan...
Villa-Lobos Harmonica Concerto full score & orchestral parts

Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra W524

$545.00
In 1955, Heitor Villa-Lobos was commissioned by John Sebastian to write a harmonica concerto, and the piece was premiered in in Jerusalem on October 27, 1959, a month before Villa's death. Villa-Lobos was one of a number of eminent composers...
Kodaly: Missa Brevis score and parts

Kodaly: Missa Brevis

$39.99 - $549.99
REPRINT SERIES Composed during the Second World War (most of it at a Budapest monastery) and completed in 1944, Missa Brevis was first performed in 1945, just after the end of the war, at the Budapest Opera House (where Kodály and his wife had...
Honegger: Napoléon Symphonic Suite score and parts

Honegger: Napoléon Symphonic Suite H.64a

$169.99 - $799.95
The soundtrack of the 1927 film Napoléon, directed by Abel Gance, was the first film soundtrack ever composed. Published in 1927, Honegger made a selection of movements from the soundtrack of the silent movie Napoléon, and presented it as a...
Villa-Lobos: Symphony No.9 score and parts

Villa-Lobos: Symphony No.9

$195.00 - $995.99
Villa-Lobos composed his Ninth Symphony in Rio de Janeiro in 1952. It was first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The score is dedicated to Mindinha (Arminda Neves d'Almeida), the composer's companion for the last 23...
Prokofiev: Cello Concerto Op.58 Score & Parts

Prokofiev: Cello Concerto in E minor Op.58

$145.00 - $599.99
The concerto was premiered on 26 November 1938 in Moscow by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra. Alexander Melik-Pashayev was the conductor and Lev Berezovsky played the cello.The premiere of Prokofiev's Cello Concerto (Op. 58) was generally thought to...
Stravinsky: Renard score and parts

Stravinsky: Renard, histoire burlesque chantée et jouée K023

$499.95
Renard: histoire burlesque chantée et jouée, or The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played, is a chamber opera-ballet for four male voices and 16 instrumentalists written in 1916 by Igor Stravinsky. Its original Russian text, by the composer,...
Martinu: Sinfonietta La Jolla score and parts

Martinu: Sinfonietta La Jolla H.328

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REPRINT SERIES In 1950, the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California, commissioned a work from Martinu that turned out to be his farewell to neoclassicism. The Musical Arts Society had requested a ‘tuneful and approachable’ orchestral...
Prokofieff Chant Symphonique Op.57 score and parts

Prokofiev: Symphonic Song Op.57

$149.99 - $699.99
Sergei Prokofiev's Symphonic Song (Russian: Симфоническая песнь), Op. 57, was written in 1933. It's a work demonstrating Prokofiev's transition from Parisian modernism to Soviet lyricism. Prokofiev had described of it as "a serious piece of work, and I...
Respighi Symphonic Variations for orchestra, score an parts

Respighi: Variazioni Sinfoniche for Orchestra P.28

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REPRINT SERIES The Variazioni sinfoniche evidently won the approval of Rimsky-Korsakov, to the extent that he accepted Respighi as a student. The work consists of a number of passacaglia-like variations after the manner of Brahms or Franck.
Alfvén: En skärgårdssägen Op.20  Score and Parts

Alfvén: En skärgårdssägen Op.20

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REPRINT SERIES The large collection of rocky islands in the Baltic off Stockholm, known as the "Skerries" in English, inspired special affection in Alfvén, who spent many fine days there in his youth. In 1903, after writing Midsummer Vigil, the...
Vaughan Williams: Serenade in A minor score and parts

Vaughan Williams: Serenade in A minor (1898)

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First composed between 1897-1898, it was premiered in April 1901 and is considered one of Vaughan William's earliest orchestral works. This attractive work already shows evidence of the composer's emerging musical style and sure grasp of orchestral...