REPRINT SERIES A one-movement concerto, it is the shortest of his five complete piano concertos, lasting only around a quarter of an hour. The first and last sections have a clear thematic relationship, as the concerto begins and ends with the same...

REPRINT SERIES The concerto radiates a crisp vitality that testifies to Prokofiev's inventive prowess in punctuating lyrical passages with witty dissonances, while maintaining a balanced partnership between the soloist and orchestra. Of the five piano...

Concertino da Camera pour Saxophone Alto et Onze Instruments ("Short concerto for alto saxophone and eleven instruments") was written by Jacques Ibert during the year 1935. The work is in two movements, the first, Allegro con moto, is lively and...

Also known as Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125,  it is a reworking of the Cello Concerto Op.58.  This "Sinfonia Concertante" is a large-scale work for cello and orchestra, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich. The three movements are all...

REPRINT SERIES The Violin Concerto No.1 is a pivotal work, one which displays a maturation of the composer. If one compares this Concerto to Prokofiev's earlier piano concertos, it is easy to see that the former is decidedly more natural in its thematic...

REPRINT SERIES L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is Ravel's second opera, his...

Respighi's greatest masterpieces,  the three Roman tone poems:   Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma) Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, En.H., 2 Cl, B.Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 3 Tbn, Tba, Timp, Perc, Organ (ad lib.), Cel., 2 Harps, Strings Pines of Rome (I...

EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES Villa-Lobos wrote a total of 17 string quartets and was working on an eighteenth at the time of his death in 1959. None of the quartets appear as mere compositional exercises but rather as displays of Villa-Lobos's ability to...

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 is the second of a set of nine suites (1930–45) for various combinations of voices and instruments, in which contrapuntal and harmonic techniques in the manner of J.S. Bach are applied to themes of Brazilian origin. It...

"Montagues and Capulets", known by its proper title as "Dance of the Knights", is a work of classical music written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev for his 1935 ballet "Romeo and Juliet". Extracted from Suite No.2 Op.64ter

REPRINT SERIES The Symphonic Dances Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. It is Rachmaninoff's last composition.The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like...

Mussorgsky's inspiration for Pictures was the death of his dear friend, the architect and visual artist Victor Hartman. Having died at age 39, Hartman had not yet had the opportunity to realize any of his architectural visions, and Mussorgsky was angered...

It is the third orchestral work in Respighi's "Roman trilogy", preceded by Fountains of Rome (1916) and Pines of Rome (1924). Each of the four movements depict a scene of celebration from Ancient Rome. It is the longest and most demanding of the trilogy...

Often described as the last work of Poulenc’s early period, the composer himself wrote to the Belgian musicologist Paul Collaer: "You will see for yourself what an enormous step forward it is from my previous work and that I am really entering my...

Maurice Ravel's Boléro is one of the most iconic and mesmerizing works in the orchestral repertoire, celebrated for its hypnotic rhythm and gradual crescendo. Composed in 1928, the piece was originally written as a ballet commissioned by Russian...

REPRINT SERIES The First Rhapsody is dedicated to Hungarian virtuoso violinist Joseph Szigeti, a close friend of Bartok. Bartók evidently composed both rhapsodies purely as a personal gesture, rather than on commission, and did so without telling...

Romeo and Juliet Suite No.3 Op.101 has 6 movements and is the briefest of the three suites extracted from the Ballet, lasting just under twenty minutes. 1.Romeo at the Fountain2. .Morning Dance3.Juliet4.The Nurse5.Aubade6.The Death of Juliet

The Concerto for string quartet with orchestra was composed in Paris in 1931 for the Belgian Quatuor Pro Arte to which Béla Bartók had already dedicated his fourth string quartet. The work keeps the string quartet distinct from the...