Sheet Music for Orchestra

Das erste große Orchesterwerk des australischen Komponisten Brett Dean in einer exemplarischen Studienpartitur. In diesem Auftragswerk des Melbourne Symphony Orchestra aus dem Jahr 1995 werden die ein...

The two versions of Stravinsky's Pétrouchka constitute separate and parallel incarnations of one of the cardinal masterworks of 20th-century music. Arguably the 1911 original version is the work of a...

Britannia was written in 1994 as a celebration of a major force in our musical life, the British orchestra. The work fulfils a commission from British Telecommunications plc with the Association of Br...

Commissioned by ROCHE for the 2004 Lucerne Festival as a companion piece to The Shadow of Night, this latest addition to the Hawkes Pocket Score Series takes its title from the text of the John Dowlan...

A 16-minute orchestral tribute to the city of Chicago commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation as part of the composer's residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and first performed in 2...

This work in three movements was commissioned by The Juilliard School, New York, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2005. It was first performed by the Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in...

Die 35-minütige Orchestersuite Book of Visions wurde vom Orchestre National de Belgique, dem NHK Symphony Orchestra und dem Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben und erlebte ihre Urauff...

Concert overture for orchestra, first performed in 2007 by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The Times described the five-minute piece as 'an irreverent deconstruction of th...

The Sacrifice is my second opera, written for WNO and premiered in 2007. It is based on one of the Mabinogian stories, a collection of ancient Welsh myths. It is a tale of love set amidst a civil or c...

Chorale (2001-02), for orchestra, is a kind of musical meditation on the chorale Es ist genug from Bach's cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, itself a harmonisation of J R Ahle's 1662 hymn. Nick Kimber...

Composed in 1991 this London Sinfonietta commission was first performed by them in May 1992 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Scored 'for orchestra or chamber orchestra' the instrumentation compris...

Commissioned by the BBC and first performed in September 2003 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, to critical acclaim. Scored for large orchestra and cast in a single, thou...