Stravinsky - Petrushka 'Orchestral Score'

[perfect_pitch]

Okay... First of all - I'm not planning to perform this piece with an orchestra since I'm NOT a conductor.

I'm after the score since I'm performing the '3 Movements from Petrushka' in September next year and my teacher insists that I have a look at the orchestral score to try and find out which instruments are playing which lines etc... so that I can try and imitate them on the piano. Get a better understanding of how the textures work in the orchestral score so I can try and convincingly convey them when I perform it on the piano.

I've already shelled out more than a couple of hundred bucks worth of books, DVD's and sheet music so far in preparation for this exam, I would rather not pay another huge sum to get the orchestral score.

Does anyone know where to get it??? I am interested in the score, purely for revision.

[retrouvailles]

Boosey and Hawkes has a very good edition. I would post it, but I can't for obvious reasons.

[furtwaengler]

A piece as substantial as this...surely there's a library near you which carries it. It's an exact situation for which libraries are made.

[perfect_pitch]

I don't think so - I haven't seen the orchestral score in a while - Having said that - this is Perth, Australia where Culture has been beaten to death with a stick and it's sad lifeless body dumped out of town.

I had to order all of the literature on my Fellowship Exam pieces from America and other countries because they could not be found in Australia... No book store sold any of them...

I'll double check, but so far I haven't had much luck.

[thalbergmad]

this is Perth

I think you are beyond help then old chap

Regretfully, I have no orchestral scores at all, so cannot assist.

Thal

[retrouvailles]

i wouldn't mind sending it to you privately (pdf file). Perhaps you could just contact me and something could be arranged?

[mikey6]

There should be a dover edition available which is cheap and readily available. It's the 1911 version but should be adequate for what you want to do.

[perfect_pitch]

Retrouvailles...

Let me know if you got my PM... it doesn't seem to save any of my sent messages in the outbox...