Contents: Quiet City • Lincoln Portrait • Danzón Cubano • Clarinet Concerto • Three Latin-American Sketches.
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Full Orchestral Score
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from: Anton Bruckner: Sämtliche Werke • Kritische Gesamtausgabe Band IX
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Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8 was composed within a period of only a few weeks in 1943. Its unusual formal structure, with five very unevenly balanced movements, was not the only thing to alienate the critics at first: above all, the expected triumphant final movement was missing, which would have symbolised the turning point of the on-going war after the Battle of Stalingrad. While it was officially agreed that this symphony reflected the horror of war, the conductor Kurt Sanderling, a friend of Shostakovich, said that it was a representation of the “horror of an intellectual's life at that time”.
This volume is part of the revised and corrected new edition of all 15 symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski as large format study scores for optimal legibility. All scores and the related orchestral parts have been newly computer typeset, and the orchestral parts are also compatible for performance use with scores in 'The New Collected Works of Dmitri Shostakovich'.
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A symphony in one movement, composed by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) in 1924. The work lasts approximately 22 minutes.
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This suite was made by Prokofieff from the score of his third ballet for Diaghilev. Gerard McBurney comments that the ballet was “a highly entertaining product of that 1920s fashion for making art about the brave new world of machines and heavy industry and strong-muscled men engaged in hard labour. For good measure Prokofieff and his collaborators threw in a light-hearted sub-plot as well, about a sailor and his girl. The result is one of his most poster-paint scores, filled with bright and brittle imagery, breezy optimism and pulsing motor-rhythms.” When Prokofieff extracted the symphonic suite he cut and reordered the material and altered quite a few passages, to give the piece more of a symphonic feel and make it more effective in the concert hall. He ends the suite with the most exciting and original music in the score, an apotheosis of the life and sounds of an early 20th-century factory. He makes marvellous use of the orchestra to describe the humming and whirring of machinery, complete with spinning cogs and flywheels and the thunder of hammers and chains.
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Critical Edition. Revision approved by The Ives Society, 2001.
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Performance time - ca. 7:30
Includes: County Galway, June 1892; The Fighting Donnellys; Joseph and Shannon; Blowing Off Steam; Finale
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Performance time - ca. 7:30
Includes: County Galway, June 1892; The Fighting Donnellys; Joseph and Shannon; Blowing Off Steam; Finale
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