Second Concerto In D Minor, Op. 22

Three of the most beloved Romantic piano concertos are now available in one volume: Schumann's Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, Grieg's Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, and Rachmaninoff's Concerto #2 in C minor, Op. 18. The orchestra parts for transcribed for a second piano, making these ideal for private study or preparation for competitions. Two copies are necessary for performance. / 2 Pianos

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. 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 877 / Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre

Orchestral reduction for second piano. Together for the first time are two of the most performed and recorded concertos of all time. Both of these Russian works have achieved unrivaled worldwide popularity and are essential in the repertoire of every serious pianists.

En tant que pianiste et compositeur, Saint-Saëns se trouva tout naturellement confronté de bonne heure au genre du concerto pour piano. Il refusa clairement le type du 'concerto brillant', alors prédominant en France: 'Le solo de concerto est un rôle qui doit être conçu et rendu comme un personnage dramatique'. Composé en 1868, son second concerto pour piano illustre parfaitement ce concept du 'concerto symphonique'. La partie de soliste est techniquement très difficile tout en se fondant étroitement à la pâte orchestrale. La réduction pour piano est de Johannes Umbreit. Elle repose sur la version pour deux pianos réalisée par le compositeur lui-même. Les doigtés de la partie de soliste sont de Pascal Rogé. / 2 Pianos

Collection de 47 ?uvres de Tchaikovsky. Une sélection de symphonies, concertos, opéras, ballets et ?uvres pour piano. Partitions pour piano solo du niveau intermédiaire à celui d'avancé. / Classique / Partition /

a cura di Federico Maria Sardelli. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Among Vivaldi’s many flute and recorder concertos, two, both for transverse flute, were known until a few years ago only in incomplete form: RV 431 and 432. Both are written in the comfortable and expressive key of E minor, are transmitted inautograph manuscripts and lack their second movement (RV 432 also lacks its third movement). The seemingly enigmatic instruction “Grave sopra il libro” replacing the second movement has given rise to the most fanciful hypotheses. The discovery in Edinburgh, in 2010, of a concerto for transverse flute in D minor entitled “Il gran Mogol” suddenly shed light on the situation: this was an earlier version of RV 431, now complete with its middle movement, a “Larghetto” that is verypossibly identical with the one missing in RV 431. This “Gran Mogol”, which belonged to Robert Kerr, a Scottish nobleman and amateur flautist, was already known by name to scholars on account of its listing in an eighteenth-century catalogue as partof a set of Vivaldi concertos bearing geographical titles: more recently, there has come to light a letter written by Vivaldi three months before his death in which the composer describes this set in detail. It is very likely that RV 431 and RV 432belonged to this group of works, the last known collection of its kind in Vivaldi’s oeuvre. This critical edition places these closely related works side by side for the first time, placing them in their historical context and making them performable through its reconstruction of some lost parts. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Date parution : 1905-07-09/ Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Cordes et Basse Continue

The tenth concerto in B minor in L'Estro Armonico (best translated as The Harmonious Inspiration) which is edited here in A minor - for four solo guitars - is one of the most famous in the entire collection -- indeed inVivaldi's entire output. Scored for four solo violins two solo violas solo violoncello and an strings orchestra. Johann Sebastian Bach not only admired Vivaldi's Opus 3; he copied it openly. In a general sense the Vivaldipieces gave impetus to much that is in the German master's Brandenburg Concertos. More particulary six concertos of Vivaldi's Opus 3 were copied by Bach as the basis for six of his concertos: two for 0rgan (BWV 593 and 596 basedon Opus 3 nos. 8 and 11 respectively) three for solo harpsichord ) BWV 978 972 and 976 based on Opus 3 nos. 3 9 and 12 respectively) and one for four harpsichords and orchestra in A minor (BWV 1065 based on Opus 3 no. 10).Bach frequently rewrote concertos scored for one kind of instrument substituting another. It is evident that Bach thought not so much in terms of the violinistic nature of the originals but in their harmonic and rhythmicpotential which could be realized on any instrument. Since Bach has already justified an arrangement of Opus 3 number 10 by the great aesthetic success of his four-harpsichord version it serves to reason that an arrangementfor four guitars is equally valid. Just as Bach preserved everything of the original Vivaldi and added only a few doubling to accomodate the left hands of the harpsichordists so in this version the substitution of guitars is donewith little or no change of original-notes. The arpeggios especially prominent in the second movement lend themselves ideally to guitar playing and the ability of the guitar to play both lyrical lines as well as passage worksuits the violinistic lines and passages of the original.

2-CD Set-Performed by Raluca Stirbat piano Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Nayden Todorov Chopin's most magnificent piano concerto is now available from MMO. The Polish-French master's F-minor concerto is a remarkable composition filled with soaring passages and a heart-melting Larghetto of unmatched lyricism. A masterpiece which holds a very special place in Chopin's oeuvre and in the entire concerto repertoire. This deluxe 2-CD pack includes a printed music score on high-quality ivory paper with informative historical liner notes; a digital stereo compact disc featuring a complete performance of the concerto with orchestra and soloist and a secondperformance minus you the soloist; and a second compact disc containing a full-speed version of the complete version as well as a special -20% slow-tempo version of the accompaniment for practice purposes. The concerto is voluminously indexed for your practice and performance convenience.