Ensemble

Gesangssolisten und Ensemble oder Orchester 2.2.2.2 2.2.0.0 PERC XYLO HP PERC ET CORDES from the age of 5 Musical tale for narrator, 3 percussionists and electronics Text based on the tale Le tailleur...

The approach is mainly based on audition, from all angles, with a strong emphasis on the formal structure, which is disclosed by very practicals 'instructions for use' ; then comes a wide range of aud...

Musical comedy, 6 solo voices and orchestra Exact instrumentation: 6 solo singers (Goose, Peacock, Raven, Hare, Cock, Fox). Orchestra: 1.(+ picc.).1(+ EH).2(+ Eb-Kl. / + BKl.).1(+ Kfg.) - 1.1.0.0. - T...

First performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in April 1978 by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer. Duration c. 15 mins.

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1979 work for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra, commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra, who gave the first performance in May 1992 at the Royal Festival Hall, with Simon...

Elias: I first came across Irina Ratushinskaya's poetry when the collection 'No, I'm Not Afraid' was published in England in early May 1986. The poems, the various circumstances in which they were wri...

Song cycle for soprano and orchestra with poems by Robert Desnos. First performed at the BBC Proms in August 1991 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, with Solveig Kringleborn. Dur...

A balletic pantomime in two tableaux.

A ballet in two acts, written between 1917 and 1919. Words by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Edited by Yvan Nommick.

The fifteenth full Opera from the prolific Hans Werner Henze, and the first to feature a self-penned libretto. After the poems he wrote for his Songs from the Arabian, Henze has produced this unusal t...

Rapsodie Nègre is the work with which Poulenc made his compositional début in Paris. It utilizes an unusual grouping of instruments and draws on African/Oriental exoticism and pentatonic melodies, cou...

Quatre Instants for Soprano and Orchestra is an arrangement of the composer's own Quatre Instants for Soprano and Piano, and was commissioned by the Finnish Chamber Orchestra Association and the Leipz...

For Mezzo Soprano and Orchestra. Libertto by Amin Maalouf. Adriana Songs was commissioned by the Auftakt Festival, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, Musical Director and t...

A score with orchestration for two Flutes, two Oboes, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Percussion and Strings. Rodrigo's Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios was written for the soprano Lola Rodriguez Aragon, who gave...

A score with orchestration for two Flutes, two Oboes, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Percussion and Strings. Rodrigo's Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios was written for the soprano Lola Rodriguez Aragon, who gave...

Kaija Saariaho's Leino Songs were commissioned by the Osaka International Festival, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Casa da Musica, Porto. First performances: 5 April 2008 at Festival Hall in Os...

Full score for Emilie, opera in 9 scenes by Kaija Saariaho. Kaija Saariaho's Emilie was commissioned by Opéra de Lyon, Barbican Centre, London and Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. It was first p...

The Love Duet From Krishna is a work by John Tavener for Soprano, Tenor and Orchestra. Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the work was first performed on 7th July 2013 at Bridgewater H...

Jocelyn Pook's Hearing Voices was commissioned by BBC3 for the BBC Concert Orchestra, who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 3 December 2012, with Melanie Pappenheim, m...

Kaija Saariaho's True Fire for Baritone Solo and Orchestra was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre national de France....

Includes 3 hardback scores (Maskarade 1, 2 and 3) and a critical commentary in English.

Jeronimus' Song from the Opera Maskarade / Masquerade by Carl Nielsen.