Ensemble

Rejoice, East and West pairs two of the most popular holiday pieces. 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel' is one of the staples of music for the season of Advent. Its plaintive melody represents the subdued tone...

String teachers are always trying to encourage their students to play with more bow. Composer Joseph Compello gives very beginning students the chance to do just that in his piece, Arco-ology. There i...

Your beginning string orchestra is bound to sparkle with this delightful new composition from composer George Sweet. The piece uses very simple rhythmic figure that will make that very first concert f...

First appearing in Novello’s Album for the Organ, No. 3, this plaintive Elegy dates from 1898, the same year as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Opus 33 Ballade for Orchestra and his Opus 30 cantata Song of...

Originally scored for strings and a pair of oboes, this energetic sinfonia comes from Handel's oratorio "Solomon." Offered here in the more accessible key of G major, this particular string orchestra...

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) was a gifted French composer whose amazing talent became evident at an early age. Cortège is the third movement in "Trois Morceaux," a set of pieces first composed for solo...

Franz Schubert's ninth symphony was known as "The Great" C major symphony, and this string orchestra arrangement remains faithful to the original, yet accessible with minimal shifting. From the first...

This furioso arrangement blends two iconic themes: the stormy presto from Summer in Vivaldi’s legendary "Four Seasons" and Dance of the Furies from Act II of Christoph Gluck's opera, "Orfeo ed Euridic...

This first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201, this lighthearted "Allegro moderato" follows the sonata form typical of his early symphonies. Its graceful, yet playful first theme...

G Major

In the Sun has a lite atmospheric sound; the music is full of energy and spirit. Composed in rondo form, the main theme appears repeatedly, alternating with contrasting sections. A peaceful section wi...

At night you see the moon up in the sky shining in silver color. The radiance is both beautiful and tranquil. Although in triple time, the evocative Silver Moon sort of feels like it is in duple time...

Canzone, pronounced 'can-zone-ay,' is the Italian word for 'song. ' It offers young students the opportunity to work on tone production, 3/4 time, staccato to legato articulations, and dynamic contras...

Streicher-Ergänzungssatz - 2 Violinen I; 2 Violinen II; Viola; 2 Violoncelli/Kontrabässe

Muffat, pupil of Lully and Corelli, composed his concerto 'Victoria Maesta' ('Sad Victory') in 1689 as organist and chamber musician in the court of the archbishop of Salzburg. The title refers to the...

Pietro Nardini was the most important pupil of Tartini regarding both violin playing and composition. Like his teacher, he attached special significance to the beauty of sound and the -suitability for...