piano reduction with solo part. Par SHCHEDRIN RODION. Shchedrin’s œuvre spans nearly every musical genre, and it is hardly surprising that an output of such versatility contains some rather remarkable instrumental combinations, for example “Music from afar” for 2 bass recorders, or “Balalaika” for a solo violin playing pizzicato throughout. This predilection for the unusual leads the composer in “…

Handel's spectacular Oratorio was composed in 1744 from a libretto by Charles Jennens that describes the fall of Babylon. Although less successful in it's day than the popular Italian opera, this work is full of invention and dramatic skill with the Jewish, Babylonian Persian and Medes masses having their own distinctive musics that were juxtaposed to create a tense dramatic conflict. Composed in …

Felix Mendelssohn can claim the credit of having ushered in the Bach-Renaissance with his arrangement and performance of the 'St Matthew Passion?. It was revived for the first time in the Berlin Singakademie on 11 March 1829, one hundred years after its premiere in Leipzig's Thomaskirche. A second arrangement was performed in Leipzig in 1841.Originally only available on hire as part of the edition…

Piano Reduction. Par BUSSOTTI SYLVANO. Italian / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Per Gli Sponsali Di Teti E Peleo - Hwv 73. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel's three-part serenata Parnasso in festa was premiered in March 1734 for the wedding of Princess Anne and Prince William IV of Orange. The music is largely based on the English oratorio Athalia. The Italian libretto, by Giacomo Rossi, takes up the Greek myth of the wedding of Thetis and Peleus. As so often in Handel's ca…

Riduzione Per Trombone E Pianoforte. Par ROTA NINO. This edition features a Piano reduction of the original orchestral material./ Répertoire / Trombone ou Tuba et Piano

On 20 December 1823 Helmina von Chézy's 'great romantic drama? 'Rosamunde? received its premiere performance at Vienna's Theater an der Wien. Unfortunately this version of the drama with ghosts, shipwreck, pirates, attempted poisoning and other horrifying ingredients has not survived - unlike Schubert's popular incidental music which was already praised by contemporary critics. Special acknowledgm…

Par TALBOT JODY. Ink Dark Moon was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Borusan Istanbul and first performed by Miloš Karadagli with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov on 2 August 2018 in the Royal Albert Hall, London as part of the 2018 BBC Proms. This is the guitar and piano reduction. / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Guitare et Piano

Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Piano Reduction including solo part. Par DENISOV EDISON. The catalogue of Edison Denisov's works includes 16 concertos. It was a genre to which he returned time and again throughout his life, from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra of 1972 to the Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra of 1996. In Denisov's music the role of the soloist, or rather the protagonist, is extraordinarily im…