Hawkes Pocket Scores

Erstveröffentlichung der Orchesterversionen der folgenden Werke Gerald Finzis: > Lo, the full, final sacrifice, op. 26 - Festival Anthem für Chor und Orchester (14 Minuten) > Magnificat, op. 36 - für...

Composer's Notes In writing this work I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title (Sacred Songs) is therefore slightly misleading as the...

Neuausgabe dieses enigmatischen, einsätzigen, 13-minütigen Werkes für Orchester, das in den frühen 1930er Jahren entstand. In seinem Vorwort kommentiert Gerard McBurney: Trozt der modernistischen Ober...

First publication of the orchestral cycle Songs of Travel, setting poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. Three of the nine orchestrations are by the composer, dating from 1905; the remainder were scored by...

New edition, with preface by Gerard McBurney. The work was composed in 1933-38 for one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century, Gregor Piatigorsky. McBurney explains that, somehow this concerto h...

The Death of Oscar (2012) is a miniature tone poem drawing upon the legend of the bardic poet Ossian and the death of his son Oscar. In the legends of Ossian, Oscar challenged the High King Cairbre to...

Die Komposition Er Huang wurde von der Carnegie Hall, New York, in Auftrag gegeben, wo 2009 die Uraufführung mit Pianist Lang Lang und dem Juilliard Orchestra unter der Leitung von Michael Tilson Thom...

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s take on the Koranic angel Israfel, "whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures", Mark Simpson was motivated to write a piece th...

17-minute work for full orchestra commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. First performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 1997. The composer comments:'The...

A major addition to the concertante trombone repertory, this single-movement work lasting 30 minutes was premiered in 2017 by Jörgen van Rijen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Iván...

TEMPUS FUGIT was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Finnish independence on 6 December 2017 and it received its first performance in Helsinki on that day, given by the Finnish Radio Symphony O...

This work was commissioned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in honour of Silvia Tóth and dedicated to Hans Werner Henze. It was composed in 2012-13 and first performed on 10 October 2013 at De...

Dieses charakteristisch sich entfaltende, aus einem einzigen Satz von 29 Minuten Länge bestehende Werk trägt den bemerkenswerten Titel: Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, (Antworten...

Scored for soprano saxophone and string orchestra, the composer states that this short concerto is based on archetypes of Scottish traditional music. The first movement, March, Strathspey and Reel, fo...

Dating from 2015, this work was a commission from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio France and New York Philharmonic. Its ded...

Das Stück startet mit einem Satz im eruptivsten und scharfkantigsten Stil des Komponisten und setzt sich fort mit einer Musik von prahlerischer Überschwänglichkeit, deren eigensinnige Lyrik Turnages c...

This work was composed in 2013 to a commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. It was first performed that year at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, by Anssi Karttunen (cello) and th...

This 25 minute work was jointly commissioned by Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Essen and the Trans-Siberian Art Festival. It was first performed on 19 October 2017 at the Lutfi...

Berserkers were special warriors common to the Vikings and the ancient Celtic tribes who would work themselves into a frenzy with mead, mushrooms and hyperventilation to achieve performances of feroci...

Composed in 2008-09, GRAFFITI is Lindberg's first work for chorus and orchestra, and it earned him the 2009 Finnish Composer Society's Award. The libretto for the half-hour work is compiled from ancie...

New, corrected edition of MacMillan's breakthrough work, a sensation at the 1990 BBC Proms. The work is now firmly established in the contemporary orchestral repertoire worldwide and championed by lea...

Commissioned by China National Centre for The Performing Arts, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie de Paris – Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Ne...

This suite was made by Prokofieff from the score of his third ballet for Diaghilev. Gerard McBurney comments that the ballet was "a highly entertaining product of that 1920s fashion for making art abo...

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and co-commissioned by Radio France and Norddeutscher Rundfunk, this work was composed in 2020. It was first performed the following year at...