Boosey-and-Hawkes - Piano and Orchestra

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1190-This wonderful piece was composed in 1951 and first performed on 16th June of the same year in the Aldeburgh Parish Church by Noel Mewton-Wood (Piano) with the Strings of the Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra. This is the Hawkes Pocket Score edition.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 Opus 102 is presented here in miniature score format as part of the highly respected Boosey & Hawkes catalogue.

Interestingly there are two different versions of Prokofiev’s second piano concerto the first written between 1912 and 1913 the second written in 1923. However during the Russian Civil War the original manuscript of the Concerto was destroyed in a fire in Prokofiev’s apartment in St. Petersburg. In 1923 he recreated the score from memory effectively composing the second edition of the work which was very different. Prokofiev wrote to a friend: I have so completely rewritten the second concerto that it might be considered the fourth (his third piano concerto having been written in the meantime).At the time of composition the concerto's wild temperamentleft some exalted whereas others were horrified by the jarring and at the time futuristic sound. Today however it is generally recognised as a masterpiece and is one of the most virtuosic works in the piano concerto repertoire.Available here is the Hawkes Pocket Score edition (No.877) of Prokoviev’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor Op.16 and is ideal for study and perusal usage.

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 610-Study Score - Hawkes Pocket Score 610. Strawinsky I

The Mysteries of Light-Sub-titled 'The Mysteries of Light? the composer states that this work attempts to revive the ancient practice of writing music based on the structure of the Rosary. The most famous example of this is the collection of the Rosary (or Mystery) Sonatas for violin by Heinrich Biber written in the late 17th century. MacMillan?s concerto is based on a set of five meditations introduced by John Paul II in 2002 the Luminous Mysteries. In spite of this rather than being devotional the work proceeds in quasi-dramatic fashion not too distant in concept from a tone poem. Commissioned by Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on the occasion of the Orchestra?s Centennial and firstperformed with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in April 2011. Performance materials available on hire.