Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits $75.00 - $1,199.95 Five Tudor Portraits (1935), by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is a work scored for contralto (or mezzo-soprano), baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra. It sets several poems, or extracts from poems, by the 15th/16th-century poet John Skelton, portraying five...
Stravinsky: Mass for Children's Chorus, Male Chorus and Wind Ensemble $45.00 - $195.00 Igor Stravinsky composed his Mass between 1944 and 1948. This 19-minute setting of the Roman Catholic Mass exhibits the austere, Neoclassic, anti-Romantic aesthetic that characterizes his work from about 1923 to 1951. The Mass also represents one of only...
Prokofiev: Symphony No.4 Op.47 First Version $169.99 - $839.99 REPRINT SERIES Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 is actually two works, both using material created for The Prodigal Son ballet. The first, Op. 47, was completed in 1930 and premiered that November; it lasts about 22 minutes. The second, Op. 112, is too...
Milhaud: Ode pour Jerusalem Op.440 $115.00 - $535.00 Three-movement work composed for the Festival Of Israel, 1972.
Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy for Narrator, Chorus and Small Orchestra $45.00 - $449.99 An Oxford Elegy is a work for narrator, small mixed chorus and small orchestra, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1947 and 1949. It uses portions of two poems by Matthew Arnold, "The Scholar Gipsy" and "Thyrsis". The first performance took place...
Prokofiev: 2 Choral Songs (2 Poems of Balmont) Op.7 for Women's Chorus and Orchestra $29.99 - $550.00 REPRINT SERIES The text to both songs comes from one of Prokofiev's favorite poets, Konstantin Balmont. The two choruses in this set were entitled "The White Swan" and "The Wave." The former was premiered in 1910, with the composer conducting a...
Honegger: Les Aventures do Roi Pausole, Symphonic Suite $125.00 - $545.00 Les aventures du roi Pausole (The adventures of King Pausole) is an opérette in three acts with music by Arthur Honegger and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on the 1901 novel by Pierre Louÿs. It was Honegger's third operatic...
Vaughan Williams: Benedicite for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra $49.99 - $650.00 REPRINT SERIESVaughan Williams often tended to focus on the composition of works in a specific genre at certain periods in his career. In 1913, for example, he wrote incidental scores to no less than seven plays (five by Shakespeare), and in 1920 he...
Rawsthorne: Street Corner Overture $89.99 - $359.99 REPRINT SERIES Rawsthorne’s perky Street Corner Overture (1944), evokes, in the composer’s words, "a Saturday night at the crossroads of a busy industrial town". This is a bubbling, infectious piece and it’s all great fun.
Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing - Ballet in One Act $195.00 - $999.95 Job: A Masque for Dancing is a one-act ballet produced in 1931. The scenario is by Geoffrey Keynes, the choreography by Ninette de Valois, and the music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ballet is based on the Book of Job from the Hebrew Bible and was...
Finzi: A Severn Rhapsody Op.3 $275.00 REPRINT SERIES With its evocative pastoral opening, A Severn Rhapsody which was clearly written under thrall of George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad and Bridge’s Summer. Blue skies, birdsong, sunny fields, cool coppices and shaded brooks...
Bacewicz: Divertimento for String Orchestra $339.99 REPRINT SERIES Composed in 1965, the Divertimento was written on commission from conductor Karol Teutsch. It was also he, together with the National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra led by him, who gave its premie re performance at a concert on 21...
Szymanowski: Symphony No.1 Op.15 in F minor $139.99 - $799.99 It is fair to say that Szymanowski’s First Symphony (1906–07) was something of a reverse in his creative fortunes and is best regarded as a flawed if valiant attempt to write on a larger orchestral scale. The pre-eminent writer on...
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...
Prokofiev: On the Dnieper, Sur Le Borysthène - Symphonic Suite Op.51a $159.99 - $745.00 Prokofiev extracted an orchestral suite from the On The Dnieper Op. 51, using six of its twelve movements. This Symphonic Suite is sometimes identified as Op.51a or Op.51bis depending on the catalog, but it's the same work. On the Dnieper (На Днепре),...