Concerto For Cello And Chamber Orchestra. Score And Parts

SKU: HL.14007473

8.25x11.75x0.419 inches.

Arth ur Bliss' Concerto For Violoncello. Reduction for Cello and Piano.

This work was first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival on 24th June 1970 by Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Britten.

SKU: HL.14037692

ISBN 9788759818886. 12.0x16.5x0.523 inches. English.

Momentum - Cello Concerto No. 2 for Violoncello Solo and Chamber Orchestra by Per Norgard .

SKU: BT.YE0001

It was a chance visit to a second hand bookshop in Nottingham that set me on the trail of Rossini's now well-known Duetto for cello and double bass. But the story begins earlier than that. In the 1960s I was studying the double bass at the Royal College of Music with Adrian Beers, who was at that time principal of the English Chamber Orchestra, on the front desk of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a member of the Melos Ensemble of London (then one of the leading ensembles of the world). I was working on the 'Dragonetti Concerto', as most young players do, and I wanted to find out a bit about it. My teacher said he thought the autograph manuscript might be in the British Library,which was all the encouragement I needed to secure a pass to the Reading Room so I could go and see for myself.

There, sure enough, I found a large collection of Dragonetti's autograph manuscripts, together with other bound volumes relating to his life. The papers had been lovingly collated and annotated by Vincent Novello, one of Dragonetti's closest friends, then deposited in the library before his departure to Italy in 1848, two years after Dragonetti's death. One of the volumes included a lot of letters about various engagements and music festivals, copies of orders for strings Dragonetti wanted from Italy, details about paintings he wanted to buy, and numerous invitations to private functions. The manuscript of the 'Dragonetti Concerto', of course, wasn't among the papers â?? we now know it to have been written by Edouard Nanny a century or so later.

One name that came up regularly in the documents was that of Sir George Smart. Smart had been a violinist in Salomon's orchestra and had played for Haydn at his London concerts in the 1790s. As a child he had learnt much about music from his father, who had in turn been present at many of Handel's rehearsals when he was preparing some of his major works for the first time. Smart was also a fine keyboard player, becoming organist of the Chapel Royal in 1822. As a conductor.

SKU: CF.O4963

ISBN 9780825894374. UPC: 798408094379. 9 x 12 inches.

A director of Peabody Conservatory and long-time president of the Juilliard School of Music, the very busy Mennin found time to compose a number of major works in the post-World War II American music scene, up until his untimely death at age 60. His Cello Concerto was commissioned by the Juilliard Music Foundation in 1955, one of many commissions from prestigious organizations. Enjoy a YouTube performance from Albany Records' American Archives, as performed by Janos Starker and the Louisville Orchestra (Jorge Mester, cond.).

SKU: HL.14041367

ISBN 9788759818893. 10.0x14.0x0.436 inches.

This is the Piano reduction for Momentum - Cello Concerto No. 2 for Violoncello Solo and Chamber Orchestra by Per Nørgård (2009).

Full Score: WH31033

SKU: HL.49001889

ISBN 9790001024754.

Eine uberraschende Entdeckung fur die Cello-Konzertliteratur stellt das vorliegende Werk dar, das in der 2. Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts entstanden ist und Einflusse der Mannheimer Schule zeigt, sowie auch Elemente der fruhen Romantik.