A miniature symphony by the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) in a highly programmatic style. The work consists of four movements played without interruption and is based on The Noon Witch sto...
Reverie is one of Scriabin's earliest orchestral works, dating from 1898. Its languid movement and drifting chromatics straight away establish the atmosphere of dreamy sensuality, which permeates so m...
We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...
The intermezzo is the fifth movement of the original suite of Aram Khachaturian's music to Lope Felix de Vega Carpio's Spanish comedy The Valencian Widow.A somber dramatically opening leads to a slowe...
Complete transcription by Erik Somers of Tolga Kashif's masterpiece The Queen Symphony. Performance material only for hire (www.batonmusic.nl)
Complete transcription by Erik Somers of Tolga Kashif's masterpiece The Queen Symphony.
In the Love Scene from Hero and Leander the oboe and bassoon introduce the Love Theme. The lovemaking begins softly, but sensually, as the theme expands, it is taken up as a give-and-take dialogue by...
The Havanaise in E major Opus 83, is a composition for violin and orchestra based on the habanera rhythm, written in 1887 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The havanaise (habañera in Spanish) is a dance in 2/4...
Paul Dukas (1865-1935) wrote his 'Villanelle' as a demanding exam piece for the horn class of the Paris Conservatoire in 1906. The title, referencing a cheerful traditional vocal genre that originated...
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28 (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), is a tone poem written in 1894 and 1895 by Richard Strauss. It chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peas...
Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. Rhapsody in blue is...
(Wind Ensemble (2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bs, 3 hn, cello, string bass))
(Wind Ensemble (solo oboe, 2 fl, 2 cl, 2 bs, 3 hn, cello, string bass))
(Voice and Wind Ensemble (2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bs, 2 hn and soprano))
(Voice and Wind Ensemble (solo voice, picc, fl, ob, engl. hn, 2 cl, 2 bs, 4 hn, string bass, harp))
After his masterpiece "The Queen Symphony", Tolga Kashif composed "The Genesis Suite" in 2011. This suite is inspired by the music of the world acclaimed English rock group Genesis and is partly Kashi...
Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l"oye (Mother Goose) as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had ded...
