Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

Interludes and Aria from ‘Lessons in Love and Violence’ (2024) is a 15-minute montage of excerpts for soprano and orchestra from  Benjamin and Crimp’s celebrated 2018 opera. Premiered by Sir Simon Rat...

Vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Rescue of Penleope , for narrator, four solo voices and orchestra. The concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza i...

The Oboe Concerto was commissioned by the BBC for the 1996 BBC Proms. The first performance was given by Nicholas Daniel and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert in the Royal Albert...

Purcell composed six of his finest odes to honour the birthdays of Queen Mary in successive years from 1689. Come, ye sons of art (1694) followed recent stage successes and contains some of the compos...

Composed for Steven Isserlis in 2004, Carl Vine's Cello Concerto is an exhilarating 20-minute work that traverses a vast emotional palette. The Concerto begins arrestingly, with soloist pitted against...

Carl Vine's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of 3 large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind - the others being his first two piano sonatas. Its composer describes it as '...

First performed Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Carl Vine's vibrant Piano Concerto No.2 (2012) is an attractive 25-minute work comprising 3 movements. A Rhapsody and Nocturne lead to a f...

Rich, colourful and multi-layered, Carl Vine's Symphony No.7 (2008) is subtitled 'scenes from daily life'. The first two 'scenes' mirror the same idea from opposite sides: the first allowing competing...

Carl Vine's atmospheric Violin Concerto (2011) creates a rich and multi-faceted relationship between soloist and orchestra. Unfolding over two finely-crafted movements of roughly equal length, the 23-...

A kaleidoscopic showpiece for orchestra entirely worthy of its name. The piece bristles with contrast and energy. Within the first few minutes we journey from a mellifluous woodwind pastorale to a fan...

For string orchestra.

While Promenade Overture can be performed with the orchestra seated throughout, in traditional fashion, it is engineered to allow the players to enter playing, building the orchestra from an almost em...

Winds, percussion, keyboard and strings (6-6-3-3-3). Includes full score.

Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955, when he was in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony, and is considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre mo...

This scholarly edition replaces the original 1958 edition, and includes detailed preliminary matter comprising a preface, sources and editorial method, and detailed textual notes. Orchestral material...

for SATB and orchestra. Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerfu...

for SATB and orchestra. Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerfu...

In this joyous and colourful piano concerto, John Rutter both reflects, and reflects upon, the many soundworlds and styles that have inspired him. The 40-minute work, in four movements, is virtuosic f...

This edition of the Concerto for piano in E flat major is based on the manuscript D-11708 (1) of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The manuscript bundle comprises the individual parts for piano an...

If Ferdinand Herold owes his reputation largely to his operas, of which Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre (1831) remains a reference until today, there are works from the beginning of his life that we sp...

The Second Concerto adopts the key of D minor for the first and third movements, and B flat major for the second. The fairly full orchestra consists of 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and strin...

Faced with the evolution of the symphony prompted by Beethoven at the beginning of the 19th century, many composers turned away from this genre, considering his nine symphonies as an unsurpassable ide...

This piece was written for Denis Comtet who gave its first-ever performance at Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral on January 3rd, 2015. The contiguous piece is nonetheless articulated in 5 clearly defined par...

This piece was written for Denis Comtet who gave its first-ever performance at Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral on January 3rd, 2015. The contiguous piece is nonetheless articulated in 5 clearly defined par...