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Johann Christian Bach: ‘Figli addio’, aria from Carattaco, Warburton G7/21b, for soprano, 2 violins, viola and cello
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Copyist’s score, in ink. The opera seria Carattaco (words, Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli) was first performed at the King’s Theatre, London on 14 February 1767. The present version of the aria differs in its scoring from the version preserved in J.C. Bach’s autograph score (Conservatoire royal de B...
Autograph full score for Symphonie Partitur by Havergal Brian. Although the work is not numbered in the manuscript, it is Brian's Symphony No. 18. Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1 also piccolo), 2 oboes (1 also cor anglais), 2 clarinets (1 also bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (1 also contra), 4 horns, 2...
Autograph full score, in black ink , 68 ff. (pp. 1-38). With some additions in pencil and performance markings in red pencil. Signed on p. 1, and dated 'Cap Ferrat / 1934' at the end of the work. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 2,3,4 (two corrections), ff. 6, 7, 9, 10 (two corrections), ff. 11, 13...
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Introduction and Allegro for two pianos and orchestra, Op.11
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Autograph full score, in black ink, 43 ff. (title-page and pp. 1-61), with occasional additions and deletions in pencil and blue pencil (e.g. ff. 11v, 15, 30r, 32r). Pasted-down corrections: ff. 18, 20, 21 (two corrections), ff. 23, 24, 25 (two corrections), ff. 29, 39, 41. Folios 33v and 36...
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Serenade for string orchestra, Op.12
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Autograph full score, in black ink, 27 ff. (title-page and pp. 1-20). With markings in pencil, particularly the bars deleted on f. 19v which are re-scored on f. 22v. Signed on f. 2. Dated 'Sept - Nov 1939' at the end of the work. Dedicated (f. 2): 'To John and Clement Davenport'. With pasted-d...
Two scores: (1). ff. 1-60. Autograph full score, black and blue ink and pencil (title-page and pp. 1-87). Signed on the title-page and on f. 2. Dated '1939' at the end of the work. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 3, 4 (two corrections), ff. 11, 13, 17, 18 (two corrections), ff. 25, 30, 43, 44 (two ...
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Symphony No. 1 (manuscript score, dyeline copy)
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Dyeline copy of manuscript score, ff. i, 56 (pp. 1-111). Signed on f. 1, and dated '1940-41' at the end of the work. Performance markings in pencil. On the front fly-leaf, a pencil note of a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Stanford Robinson (date of performance not indicated).
Two bound scores: dyeline copy of manuscript score (1940-41), and the published score (Chester, 1951). First performance: London, Royal Albert Hall, 8 July 1943. London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Lennox Berkeley.
