Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. The Homage March is one of the...
The name 'Pathetique' for the last of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's six symphonies was suggested by the composer's brother the day after its premiere in 1893. And indeed the 'Finale' of this symphony is...
Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. Also available as seperate edi...
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. His popularity was overshadowed by that of his...
The oratorio 'Mors et Vita' (Death and Life) is the continuation of 'The Redemption' and was the second of a proposed trilogy of oratorios written on commission by Charles Gounod for the Birmingham Fe...
Franz Schubert's 'Symphony No. 8' in B minor, D 759, commonly known as the 'Unvollendete' ('Unfinished Symphony'), is a composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements - tho...
Anton Bruckner composed his 'Kleine Orchesterstücke' in 1862 as a first attempt in that field which later he was to make his very own: orchestral music. These four pieces are melodious little 'moments...
