Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

Spanish conductor and composer Gerónimo Giménez (1854-1923) was dedicated to writing zarzuelas, the populist Spanish genre of lyric-dramatic one-act operas popular at the end of the 19th century and b...

Andalucia Suite consists of six individual compositions. Included are the immortal Malaguena and the equally beautiful Andalucia, known as the The Breeze and I. Both Malaguena and Andalucia are comple...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world’s most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 red...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

Leroy Anderson's "Jazz Pizzicato" and "Jazz Legato" stand as quintessential proof of his legendary status as a composer of light music. With a nostalgic nod toward the traditional American dance form...

Revised version by the Gustav MahlerGesellschaft, Vienna

Partitur als Klavierauszug. Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), der letztgeborene Sohn Johann Sebastian Bachs, bildete sowohl hinsichtlich der von ihm gepflegten Kunstgattungen, wie auch seiner Musiksp...

Revised version by the Gustav MahlerGesellschaft, Vienna

Francois Joseph Fetis (1784-1871) war und ist vorwiegend als Musiktheoretiker und -schriftsteller bekannt. Auf diesem Sektor leistete er Grundlegendes einerseits durch das 1844 erschienene 'Traitee co...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) Flute Concerto (2002) was initially inspired by the magnificent, enigmatic poetry of the Swede Tomas Tranströmer, but the vocal ideas nevertheless adapted themselves to the flut...

Joseph Haydn's La Canterina ('The Singing Girl') was one of the composer's earliest stage works, written in 1766 soon after Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had promoted him to first Kapellmeister. The libre...

Alcalay, herself an accomplished pianist, here combines virtuosic pianism with masterful colouristic orchestration.

Preface Composed in the mid-1860s during one of many frustrating points in the young composer's life, Pytor Tchaikovsky's TH 38 (Overture in C minor), never performed during his lifetime, is a testame...

Preface "At Tordenskjold's in Holmen's Church," "From David's Psalm 103 (or 16)," "From David's Psalm 103," "Danish Pictures," "Danish Cities," "Fanfare Symphony," "Dannebrogklänge" - there were many...

Preface Granville Bantock was a composer caught between two musical cultures. The son of a prominent London surgeon, Bantock studied at the Royal Academy of Music while Tchaikovsky was still a rising...

Preface The Romanian composer George Enescu was the only surviving child of his parents, who had lost several children as stillbirths or through illness. His father, Costache Enescu, worked as an admi...

Preface The music of Joachim Raff' has enjoyed a small renaissance in the last 20 years. For a long time, the once-famous musician was almost forgotten. When Pyotr Tchaikovsky attended the Bayreuth Fe...

Preface Arnold Bax was born and brought up in London in a wealthy and cultivated family. Showing early showed talent in music, he studied at the Royal Academy in London and in Dresden, where he first...

Preface Willem Pijper was a Dutch composer, music journalist, and teacher who rose from a humble background to become a central figure of musical life in the Netherlands. Along with his contemporary M...

Preface Historians of American music have identified two New England Schools of music, though this terminology refers to historical movements, not formal arrangements. John Knowles Paine is considered...