Alba Second-Hand Music - Scores Wanted
We are always interested in purchasing libraries of classical music. Traditional folk music, particularly pipe music is always welcome.
We are searching for the following items:
- Elgar
- Another copy required of Elgar Piano Quintet op84
- Hamish MacCunn
- Any music by this composer would be most welcome, particularly the full-score or vocal score of 'Jeanie Deans'. Also by McCunn:
- 'Highland Memories'
- 'In the Ingle Neuk'
- 'Six Scotch Dances' op 28
- 'Valse'
- 'Songs and Ballads of Scotland, with pianoforte accompaniment' published by Paterson in Glasgow
- The opera, 'Diarmid', quite a number of individual songs, and I believe some pieces for piano & cello
- Gustav Holst
- Wind Quintet
- John Purser
- Scotland's Music - published by Mainstream
- Missing manuscripts of Thomas Wilson, Scottish composer
- 'Magne Pater Augustine' written for St.Augustine's Secondary School at Milton, near Glasgow, and 'Supplications' sent to Ely Cathedral and subsequently lost
- The Clarinet Concerto performed by Harry Morrison in Edinburgh with Eric Roberts
- Francis Collinson
- The Bagpipe Fiddle and Harp pub Lang Sygne 1983
- Arthur Sullivan
- vocal score for "The Beauty Stone"
- Obscure 19th-century compositions based on Goethe's Faust
- Eg. the incidental music by Henry Hugo Pierson, the composition by Litolff, and so on. (not Berlioz, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner). Also Hervé, Le Petit Faust, would be of great interest
- Robert Kahn
- Opus 73, Serenade. This is a trio for Oboe, Horn (or Viola) and Piano. It was published by Simrock
- Christmas carols by blind composers
- Published in the 1920s. There were five or six, produced by Novello for the National Institute for the Blind between 1923 and 1928. They contained the best entries from an annual competition and were distibuted free (I think) to choir masters etc. on request
- Piano duet arrangements
- Peters Edition or other of Haydn string quartets vol.2
- Mozart string quartets, Mozart quintets, Mendelssohn string quintets, the Brahms Piano quintet, the string quintets and the Schumann Piano quintet
- Solo Piano Arrangement of the Enigma Variations
- Also PIANO DUET version of the Introduction and Allegro for strings
- Alfred Hollins' Polonaise
- A duet for piano and pipe organ
- Ernest John Moeran
- Concerto for violoncello & orchestra (Novello;piano score and/or miniature score)
- Sonata for violoncello & piano (Novello)
- Sonata for violin & piano (Chester)
- Sterndale Bennett
- Fantasy in A Op. 16 and other works
- Moscheles
- In particular Sonata melancolique, Op. 49
- Rutland Boughton
- "Queen of Cornwall"
If you can help, please contact Robert. email preferred.