John Corigliano

The Red Violin Caprices (duration: ca. 10 min.) are derived from John Corigliano's music for The Red Violin, which received the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Score. The Caprices were composed e...

Originally composed in 2011 for Anne Akiko Meyersa and her daughter Natalie, it was later orchestrated for Marin Alsop's 20th season at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and has been transc...

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barbe...

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barbe...

Soprano and Piano In this extremely emotional aria from Corigliano's popular opera, the ghost of Marie Antoinette relives the unbearable memory that forever haunts her: the final moments of agony and...

Duet for Two Sopranos (Or Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano. From John Corigliano's stunning opera, The Ghost of Versailles, with a libretto by William M. Hoffman.

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Parts available GS34503.

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music! This landmark, five-movement string symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall in that ci...

John Corigliano (b. 1938) is an American composer. One of his most enjoyable compositions is The Mannheim Rocket, commissioned by the Mannheim orchestra in the year 2000. It takes inspiration from the...

First performance in 1990 with Stephen Hough, Piano and Daniel Barenboim, Conductor.

The title Gazebo Dances was suggested by the pavilions (often seen on village greens in towns throughout the countryside) where public band concerts are given on summer evenings. The delights of that...

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Two Playing Scores Quarter-tone work with eerie effects and dissonances that are both expressive and startling. In three movements: I. Light, II. Shadows, III. Strobe. ca. 12 minutes.

Kaleidoscope was first performed at the festival Of Two World at Spoleto, Italy, 1961.

Suggested by La Mère coupable of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Libretto by William M. Hoffman. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Company for its 100th anniversary.

Includes: Dodecaphonia, Marvelous Invention, and End of the Line.

She Must Stay is the final soprano aria from Corigliano's 1991 opera 'The Ghosts of Versailles', sung by Marie Antoinette. The aria is extracted from the newly published first edition of the vocalscor...

Song Number 2 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Song Number 4 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Reduction from the work for Tenor and Orchestra.

With Baritone solo. Text by Dylan Thomas.