2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1287203

Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. 21st Century,Contemporary. Score. 72 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #878214. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.1287203).

TWO PIANOS/FOUR HANDS (Piano 2 is Orchestral Reduction)  The fifth of 21st century,  Moonlight on the Seas, American composer James Nathaniel Holland’s Piano Concertos.  This colorful piece evokes moonlight and the sea. Movement one evokes a tempestuous storm with crashing and churning waves against the rocky coast.  Movement is maritime serenity and three returns to tempestuous emotions. (License or permission to perform may apply.)

Instrumentation:  Fl 1.2., Ob, EH, Cl Bb 1.2., Bsn 1.2., Hrn 1.2.3., Tpt 1.2.3., Trom 1.2., Tba, Timp, Perc. (Cymbal w/soft mallet, Crash Cymbals, Splash cymbal,Snare, Bass Drum, Glockenspiel ) PIANO SOLOIST, Hrp., Strings

Two Pianos/Four Hands, Full Score only, and Full Score with Instrument Parts, all sold separately.

Total Duration:  Approximately 30 minutes.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.800632

Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Arranged by Richard Simm. Romantic Period. Score. 4 pages. Richard Simm #5888483. Published by Richard Simm (A0.800632).

This arrangement by Richard Simm for two pianos is based upon Rachmaninoff's orchestral version in E minor. The work was originally part of a set of 14 Romances for voice and piano, but its popularity has led to it being arranged for many combinations of instruments. The composer himself orchestrated the accompaniment both in its original key, with a singer as soloist, and in this higher key, scored for violin soloists. Its haunting beauty is best captured by playing softly, as if in the distance.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1175185

By Paul Posnak & Anita Castiglione. By George Gershwin. Arranged by Paul Posnak. 20th Century,Classical,Jazz,Standards. Score. 10 pages. Paul Posnak #775326. Published by Paul Posnak (A0.1175185).

Arrangement for 2 pianos, 4 hands of Swanee by George Gershwin.


Foreword by the arranger:

George Gershwin, since his days as a teenage song-plugger in Tin Pan Alley, loved the medium of two pianos. A consummate improviser with a harmonically sophisticated, jazz-influenced,
orchestral approach to the treatment of melody, he was born into the great age of touring duo piano teams, such as Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, Josef and Rhosina Levine, Luboshutz and Nemenoff, and Gershwin's favorite team, Arden and Ohman. Gershwin loved the multi-voiced orchestral color, power and range of two pianists playing and improvising together. In his first major show written with brother Ira, the 1924 Lady Be Good, he incorporated the renowned team of Phil Ohman and Victor Arden into the musical theater pit orchestra, not only to add to the orchestra's sound and rhythmic drive, but also to play during breaks in the action and during Intermission. They even played encores! This successful formula was repeated for the 1926 show, Oh, Kay, and for the 1927 show, Funny Face.
Gershwin's own bravura improvisations on his songs sound, even to the trained ear, like two pianos. I have transcribed (and digitally re-recorded) a number of these improvisations note-for-note from the old LP-remastered 78 rpm records and radio broadcasts. I have tried to capture his own two-fisted orchestral keyboard style: his love of inner voices, contrapuntal runs, jazz figurations, sophisticated chordal textures, and swing.
These arrangements resulted from my appearance in 2003 as one of two soloists in several all-Gershwin concerts with The National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marvin Hamlisch. Marvin suggested that I also play a couple of my Gershwin improvisation transcriptions, and we thought it would be a perfect touch for Lorin Hollander, the other soloist, and me to play a short two-piano piece. I was surprised to find very few two-piano arrangements of Gershwin's songs. I became inspired to fill this void in the duo piano repertoire. It is my hope that these settings will offer a worthy challenge and musical reward for intermediate and advanced piano students and amateurs, and a unique addition to the duo piano literature for professional pianists and duo piano teams the world over.

Paul Posnak.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1321769

Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 52 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #910236. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.1321769).

2 PIANOS/4 HANDS (Piano 2, Reduced Orchestra)  Number 6 of 21st century, American composer James Nathaniel Holland’s Piano Concertos for smaller orchestra and piano soloist.  This lively piece contains three distinct movements.   Movement one giggles and bubbles with triumphant glee;  movement 2, a quiet rocking; ending with movement 3, a neo-classical style with modern sensibilities.  Good for smaller hand, intermediate advanced level. (License or permission to perform may apply.)

Instrumentation:  Fl, Ob, Cl Bb 1.2., Bsn, Hrn 1.2, Tpt, Trom, Timp, Perc. (Cymbal w/soft mallet, Crash Cymbals, Splash cymbal, high hat, bass drum, wood block) PIANO SOLOIST, Strings

Two Pianos/Four Hands, Full Score only, and Full Score with Instrument Parts, all sold separately.

Total Duration:  Approximately 30 minutes.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.730503

Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. Contemporary. Score. 57 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #5866929. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.730503).

American classical music composer James Nathaniel Holland brings you the fourth of his piano concertos, a two movement piece called The Bells The first is the lonely chime ringing from a cathedral over the city or countryside, a style reminiscent of Debussy and Ravel, and a beautiful 2nd singing theme in right hand. The second movement transports us to the mystic Italian castle high on the mountain. Instrumentation in the orchestral is: Picc/Fl1, fl2, ob12, cl Bb 12, Bsn 12, Hrn 123,Tpt Bb 1.2.3. (sometimes with mute), trmb 12, tba, timpPercussion Player #1 and #2, Bass Drum/Glockenspiel/Chimes, Piano Soloist, Strings This publication is for 4 hands and 2 pianos (orchestra reduction) to be used for rehearsal. Duration: 25 minutes. One of the easier piano concertos in the repertoire.

2 pianos - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q5862

Based on Hindustani themes. Composed by Erik Chisholm. This edition: piano reduction for 2 pianos. Downloadable, Piano reduction. Duration 30 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q5862. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q5862).

The Piano Concerto No.2 was first performed in Cape Town in 1949 and in the following year was broadcast on the BBC Radio Third Programme. It was enthusiastically received by the critics, Ernest Newman writing of it ’I was particularly intrigued by the skill with which the composer has managed to fuse Hindustani modes of expression and European ways of thought and factors of design into a single organic whole. I was greatly intrigued by it’. It had many performances and broadcasts in the composer’s life time but after his death, was not heard again until 2007 when it was specially recorded for broadcast one evening in ‘Scotland’s Music�, a BBC Radio Scotland’s series of weekly programmes. John Purser, writer and presenter of the series which ran for a year, comments ‘The Concerto emerges as a major achievement in terms of over-all conception, technical innovation and brilliance and superb handling of the orchestra’. The soloist, Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam, said of his experience “It is a great privilege to be working on such a wonderful Concerto! I have completely fallen in love with the piece. The work is definitely challenging, but the wealth of musical ideas, the refinement of the slow movement, the humour and boisterousness of the finale make one forget that at times fingers need to be scraped off the keyboard’.