Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

Illustrated Guide to the Orchestra provides a fascinating insight into the world of music by looking at it from a very difference angle. Maps are used to introduce composers while instruments of the o...

I responded to this exciting but rather daunting commission by writing a very lively and I hope very accessible piece, which, I decided before I started composing, should be full of tunes. I wrote it...

Richard Rodney Bennet's Symphony No. 3 commissioned for the 1987 Three Choirs Festival by the Elgar Foundation with additional funds from West Midlands Arts is now published in a facsimile studyscore....

Arthur Bliss's first orchestral compositions, his studies for Full Orchestra, are believed to have been composed in 1920. The first performance in 1921 was conducted by Arthur Bliss. Orchestration: 2...

Opus 68a; Overture to the opera The Palace (1994). The libretto (by Irene Dische and Hans Magnus Enzenberger) is strongly influenced by Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and it alludes to the ori...

Aulis Sallinen's Symphony No. 7 is related to J. R. R. Tolkien's great novel 'The Lord of the Rings. ' The symphony does not actually depict the events in the novel; rather it is a musical expression...

This Symphony, McCabe's fourth, was commissioned by the BBC as part of an exchange scheme with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The first performance was given by the Melbourne Symphony Orches...

Composed in 1986

Modern Liverpudlian composer Giles Swayne's 'Murder Of Gonzago' score gains inspiration from Shakespeare's scene in 'The Tempest. '