Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

Cantabile, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, is an extensive work that makes use of many of the virtues and clichés of the viola (leisureliness, melancholy, gloominess etc.), but that also refutes t...

Henri Vieuxtemps composed the fantasia La Sentimentale in readiness for his second tour of Russia in 1839-1840. In terms of its character, the fantasia is marked by bel canto opera. Vieuxtemps himself...

Vieuxtemps' 8th Violin Concerto, dedicated to Eugène Ysaye, could not be completed by him before his death, the autograph sketches have been lost, and only a contemporary transcript of the piano reduc...

Vieuxtemps wrote these variations when he was barely 18 years old, before a concert tour to Russia. They fulfill the classical ideal of a 'pure, innocent' expression to a particular degree and can be...

Final(ment)e, Interplay of relationships for two trumpets and orchestra, was composed as an atmospheric counterpart to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Several quotations from that monumental work flowed...

At the age of 15, several years before his well-known violin concertos, Henri Vieuxtemps wrote a so far unpublished violin concerto in E major. It is an ingenious work of his youth that already reveal...

Clarinet solo with full orchestra accompaniment. This is a fun and entertaining piece. The clarinet soloist, after stating the theme, proceeds to take away pieces of the instrument until, eventually,...

A gorgeous rock ballad for solo oboe, orchestra and jazz rhythm section, Thoughts on an August Day is the perfect addition to any summer pops concert. Feature your oboe player in this tender interlude...

The Iron Horse is a musical character piece inspired by the historical and folkloric role the steam engine played in the American western frontier. This musical work began life as a four-note motive R...

A full-out gallop from start to finish, The Race Horse is a thrilling moto perpetuo that will have the audience riveted by its driving rhythmic energy and cinematic style! Includes clarinet parts in A...

A gorgeous rock ballad for solo oboe, orchestra and jazz rhythm section, Thoughts on an August Day is the perfect addition to any summer pops concert. Feature your oboe player in this tender interlude...

A full-out gallop from start to finish, The Race Horse is a thrilling moto perpetuo that will have the audience riveted by its driving rhythmic energy and cinematic style! Includes clarinet parts in A...

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.

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

With the publication of the critical commentary this edition of the 6th Symphony is now complete. It provides detailed information about the circumstances in which the work was written, documentation...

The aim of the edition is to present the composer's enormous legacy as it is known today, as exhaustively as possible. Every musical text published in this edition is an outcome of the comprehensive a...

The aim of the edition is to present the composer's enormous legacy as it is known today, as exhaustively as possible. Every musical text published in this edition is an outcome of the comprehensive a...