From Janos Starker: DON QUIXOTE by Richard Strauss is based on Cervantes's saga of the adventures of the Don, and is one of our major cello works. When I first performed it with Fritz Reiner and the C...
As suggested by the title, this short suite is an ideal recital piece for the developing cellist. It features various essential techniques and consists of three short movements. The first, entitled Ra...
A gentle and poignant work originally written for Solo Bassoon and Orchestra, the Romance for Bassoon was composed in 1910, during one of Elgar's most creative periods, between his Violin Concerto and...
The five pieces that comprise Domesticities: Five Short Pieces for Flute and Piano by Jon Jeffrey Grier, are designed to evoke everyday events and activities, humorous (at least in hindsight!), invigo...
While scored by Franz Lachner for eight wind instruments (flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons), this work is considered to be symphonic in scope.
American composer and folk music specialist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), was a prominent voice in the emerging modernist aesthetic in the early 20th century, and she became a central member of a...
A rare chamber music gem in the Romantic idiom written by Arthur Foote in 1920. This edition carefully follow the autograph score which is found in the Harriet M. Spaulding Library of the New En...
The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ride" is often...
This Scherzo is included in Chaminade's Orchestral Suite and was later transcribed for piano solo. It fits the orchestra like a glove, sparkling color from all sections.
This march in C major begins with a stately melody with dotted-note rhythms, which is shared between the winds and strings. No section is ignored in Philip Clark's orchestration; every instrument has...
