Sheet Music for Orchestra

Thomas Adès's Brahms for baritone and orchestra (2001) is a setting of Alfred Brendel's poem 'Brahms II' in which the malodorous ghost of Brahms stalks a house and plays the piano late at night. Adès...

Scored for the same ensemble as Benjamin's Palimpsests (with the addition of a cor anglais), this ingenious transcription of one of the jewels of Baroque organ music succeeds in capturing the spirit a...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(1): glsp/crot 2 harp (2nd ad lib) - cel - strings

Score to Claude Debussy's Les Tierces Alternées (Prelude 5), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2): susp.cym/glsp/3 pairs crot/BD/tam-t - 2 h...

Score to Claude Debussy's Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. (Prelude 6), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/SD/ta...

Score to Claude Debussy's La Danse De Puck (Prelude 7) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.3(III=bcl).2.cbsn - 4031 - timp - perc(2): glsp/3 pairs crot/tgl/susp.cym/tam...

Score to Claude Debussy's Minstrels (Prelude 8) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): tamb/tgl/SD/TD/BD - 2 harp - strings

Rinaldo and Armida was written for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Company (UK). Duration: c.9 minutes. Orchestra 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-fla...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4131 - timp - perc(2): glsp/tam-t/crot - 2 harps - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.1.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4330 - perc(3): susp.cym/tam-t/BD - 2 harp - cel - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4030 - timp - perc(1):crot - 2 hp - cel - strings Orchestral parts available for hire from Faber Music Limited.

orchestrated by Colin Matthws, this work was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society, and written for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(3): xyl/cast/tg...

orchestrated by Colin Matthws, this work was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and was written for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(3): glsp/tgl/susp.cym...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Bruyères (Prelude 14) was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society in 2006 and first performed by the Hallé Orchestra and conducted by Mark Elder at the Bridgewater H...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4030 - timp - perc(3): glsp/tubular bell(E)/tam-t - 2 harp - cel - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society, this was written for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2): glsp/xyl/susp.cym/cra...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): tamb/siz.cymb/tgl/BD - 2 hp - cel - strings Orchestral parts available for hire from Faber Mu...

La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune (Prelude 18 ) by Claude Debussy, orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4230 - timp - perc(2): glsp/crash.cym/tg...

Score to Claude Debussy's Des Pas Sur La Neige (Prelude 19) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.ca.ssax.2 - 4130 - perc(1): tam-t - 2 harp - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.asax.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(3): xyl/susp.cym/crash.cyms/tgl/tamb/SD/BD - harp - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(1): tgl/BD - 2 harp - cel - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society, this is arranged for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): susp.cym/cast/tamb/BD...

La Cathédrale Engloutie (Prelude 24) by Claude Debussy, orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(both=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.cbcl (ad lib).2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(4): glsp/t.bells/2 pairs...

Postlude Monsieur Croche was composed as an afterword to Matthews's orchestrations of the Debussy Preludes, it was written as a gift for and a thank you to Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé, and is...

Britten's setting of Edith Sitwell's poem 'Praise We Great Men', was left unfinished at his death. It was being written for Mstislav Rostrpovich to include in his first season with the National Sympho...