Prokofiev's last piano concerto dates from 1932 and is in five short movements.The longest, a Larghetto, is around seven minutes in length. The remaining four movements are all in a fast tempo and feature virtuoso keyboard writing; the third movement,...

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931. The concerto has four movements, lasting around 24 minutes. Wittgenstein did not understand...

Reprint Series "Cinderella" is a ballet composed by S. Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. Ten Pieces for Piano from...

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...

EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES The piece is a set of 24 variations on the twenty-fourth and last of Niccolò Paganini's Caprices for solo violin, which has inspired works by several composers. The whole composition would take about 22–24...

In reality a ten-minute neo-classical piano concerto in two movements, Honegger's Concertino sports severe "wrong note" harmonies and complex counterpoint within what is actually a rigid framework. Two movements further subdivide into four, and the...

This concerto was commissioned by the prominent Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm due to a wound sustained in World War I. The concerto negotiates several sections in various tempi and keys without pause. Towards the end of...

"Cinderella" is a ballet (Op.87) composed by S. Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. This arrangement by the composer was...

Piano Score Based on William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", it is today on of the most enduringly popular ballets. Prokofiev reduced selected music from the ballet in 1937 for piano, which he premiered himself later that year. 10 Movements: 1...

Piano score. "Night on the Bare Mountain" is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky, and this piano transcription by C.Tchernow is based on N. Rimsky-Korsakov's version. Night on Bald Mountain is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky that exists in at least...

Piano Score A cycle of three descriptive pieces for piano, inspired by a fragment from a Walt Whitman poem: 'In cabin'd ships at sea The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large, impervious waves, Or...