Poulenc: 4 Poèmes de Max Jacob FP 22 $99.95 The Quatre poèmes de Max Jacob, composed in 1921, show Poulenc at his most avant-garde. To the already edgy ensemble of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and trumpet Poulenc adds lines of dissonant counterpoint punctuated by knotty chords, to the...
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments 1947 revision $89.95 REPRINT SERIES The Symphonies of Wind Instruments (French title: Symphonies d'instruments à vent) is a concert work written by Igor Stravinsky in 1920, for an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. The piece is in one movement, lasting about...
Hindemith: Symphony in B Flat Major for Band $99.95 REPRINT SERIES The contrapuntal textures used by Hindemith throughout the symphony highlight many instruments individually. This writing takes advantage of the vast color palette that this combination of instruments offers. The Symphony is scored...
Weill - Violin Concerto Op.12 $135.00 REPRINT SERIES Kurt Weill: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op.12 The scoring, for an orchestra of winds with prominent percussion, suggests the brilliant, biting sonorities of Weill’s theater music. It was dedicated to the violinist...
Honegger - Concerto da Camera $79.50 Concerto da camera (H 196) is a concerto in three movements for the unusual combination of flute, English horn, and string orchestra written by Arthur Honegger late in his career in 1948. Honegger described the movements as such: "The first part is based...
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta $129.95 Bartók divides the strings into two groups which he directs should be placed antiphonally on opposite sides of the stage, and he makes use of antiphonal effects particularly in the second and fourth movements.The piece is in four movements, the...
Antheil - Ballet Mécanique $89.50 - $195.50 EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES George Antheil musical masterpiece Ballet Mécanique (1924) was originally written for the film. In concert performance, the Ballet Mécanique is not a show of human dancers but of mechanical instruments. Among...
Ives - The Unanswered Question $45.50 In Charles Ives's most famous work The Unanswered Question, a miniature he called a "cosmic drama," one finds distilled his revolutionary means, and more importantly the ends of his singular art. The piece is a kind of collage in three distinct layers,...
Poulenc: Suite française d’après Claude Gervaise FP 80 for Orchestra $65.50 This charming suite bears the subtitle d'après Claude Gervaise (16e siècle) and displays Poulenc's inimitable blend of the archaic and the anarchic. The suite lasts approximately 12 minutes and has 7 movements:1. Bransle de Bourgogne2...
Milhaud: Symphonie de Chambre No.2 Op.49 $99.95 The Little (Chamber) Symphony No. 2, Op. 49, by Darius Milhaud (not to be confused with Symphony No. 2) is a three movement piece written for chamber orchestra, consisting of flute, English horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Milhaud...
