SKU: HL.49047271
The names of George Gershwin (1898-1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) are synonymous across the globe with American musical creativity. The Gershwin family estates, their publishers, and the University of Michigan have joined forces to produce The George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition?the first-ever scholarly edition of the Gershwins' music and lyrics. This all-new practical edition facilitates both study and performance, giving a wide audience of musicians, scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike greater insight into the Gershwins? art. The goal is to create clear and definitive publications that achieve the most accurate representations possible of the Gershwin brothers' unique and pioneering creativity. This all-new critical edition of the original 1924 arrangement of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue presents an authoritative transcription of arranger Ferde Grofé's handwritten holograph score preserved in the collection of the United States Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The edition represents as best as possible the piece as premiered by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra at his ??Experiment in Modern Music? concert on February 12, 1924. Grofé prepared the score for the specific talents and timbres of the Whiteman Orchestra, largely from an ink fair copy of Gershwin's two-piano short-score manuscript. Gershwin continued to modify the piano solo portion of this short score during rehearsals and, most likely, even after the premiere of the piece.
SKU: HL.49007357
ISBN 9790001079341.
SKU: HL.49044938
ISBN 9790220126758.
Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music.'Dance works' was written specifically for dance theatre and originally scored for the Steve Martland band. Martland's own arrangement for 2 pianos retains all the rhythmic power of the ensemble version but opens up new possibilities for concert performance or small scale or touring dance companies.
SKU: HL.49030270
ISBN 9790220129476. 8.5x11.5x0.06 inches.
SKU: HL.49019554
ISBN 9790001176033. UPC: 884088924362. 9.0x12.0x0.439 inches.
Advanced Level. Includes 2 copies of score.
SKU: HL.49047047
UPC: 196288111061.
Igor Stravinsky originally wrote the Danses concertantes for a California-based entertainment orchestra. However, the five movementsare more than purely orchestral dances. The piece is reminiscent of a ballet suite. The two marches at the beginning and end mark the entrance (prologue) and departure (epilogue) of the dancers, with two of the middle movements - 'pas d'action' and 'pas de deux' obviously alluding to the ballet. The arrangement for two pianos by Ingolf Dahl is not just a reduction of the orchestral writing,but deliberately intended as an independent concert version.
SKU: HL.49030419
ISBN 9790220119507. UPC: 884088053000. 9.0x12.0x0.426 inches.
SKU: HL.49015094
ISBN 9790001050579.
SKU: HL.49004763
ISBN 9790001050494. UPC: 073999861679. 9.0x12.0x0.096 inches.
SKU: HL.49008209
ISBN 9790001124126. UPC: 073999875478. 9.0x12.0x0.199 inches.
Despite its seemingly sparse texture, this is a large-scale, virtuosic concerto in an expressive tonal idiom, full of memorable rhythmic detail. It was premiered in 1992, 32 years after its composition, by Konrad Richter and Israel Yinon. Their recording for Bayer Records won an important award by German critics. A further recording by Igor Ardasev and Gerd Albrecht is available on Orfeo.
SKU: HL.49033177
ISBN 9790001134385. UPC: 073999928334. 9.0x12.0x0.136 inches.
The two pianos introduce the bass motif one after another. Every new entry brings an increase in tempo. Only when they play together, though, is the real 'Vivace unleashed. From then on, it is only in the 'largamente' sections and a lyrical middle section (cantabile) that the racing bass figure pauses for a while. The motif weaves its way through the course of the 'Toccata' like a 'perpetuum mobile', bringing ever more complex layering to the structure of the movement. The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has described himself as a 'musician from the periphery' on account of his geographical and cultural background. His music full of emotional rigour continues to bring him towards the centre of contemporary composition, as is evident in his instrumental chamber works.
SKU: HL.49004649
ISBN 9790001048767. UPC: 073999699548. 9.25x12.0x0.263 inches.
SKU: HL.49045284
ISBN 9790001161268. UPC: 841886029767. 9.0x12.0x0.232 inches.
Suite No. 1 is a hymn to the divinity of the dance. The piece explores all possibilities of extreme rhythm, harmony and orchestration in order to place special emphasis on the piano as a solo instrument with all its possibilities: from percussion instrument to lyric simplicity. At the end, the composer quotes the style of his scores together with the ancient tragedies in an epilogue with prominent signals from the wind section.
SKU: HL.49005580
ISBN 9790001060103. UPC: 884088048556. 9.0x12.0x0.161 inches.
SKU: HL.49003486
ISBN 9790001034272. UPC: 073999353303. 9.0x12.0x0.23 inches.
String orchestra piano, piano reduction for two pianos. Theme * First Variation: Melancholie * Second Variation: Sanguinic * Third Variation: Phlegmatic * Fourth Variation: Choleric.
SKU: HL.49004103
ISBN 9790001042215. UPC: 073999562934. 9.0x12.0x0.179 inches.
