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Scored for 12-piece symphonic brass ensemble this 13-minute work was commissioned for MusicNOW, the new music series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed by the brass of the Chica...

Lied ohne Worte wurde vom Klavierfestival Ruhr anlässlich des 75. Geburtstages von Alfred Brendel in Auftrag gegeben. Sein Sohn Adrian (Cello) führte es (unter dem Title Lied) am 9. August 2009 zusamm...

Unsuk Chin komponierte ihr Violinkonzert 2001 als ein Auftragswerk des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters in Berlin, bei dem sie Composer in Residence war. Die Uraufführung erfolgte im Januar 2002 in Berl...

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...

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...

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...

Composed in 2021 and dedicated to the soloist Nicola Benedetti, this work was written as a memorial tribute to the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died the previous year and was a major musi...

The composer explains that, in psychology, an ‘idée fixe’ is an obsessively held belief or preoccupation that is often impervious to attempts to correct or modify it. But it is also a musical term, fi...

The title of this piece, written in 2005 to a commission from the Hampstead & Highgate Festival, refers not only to the number of instrumental ‘parts’ involved (i.e. the violin and the two hands of t...

Composer's note:Several years ago I attended The Percussive Arts Society National Convention. There I witnessed a ninety-minute clinic on state of the art techniques for playing crash cymbals. I confe...

Louis Andriessen celebrates his 70th birthday in 2009. This volume in the Hawkes Pocket Score series brings together two major works for string quartet, Garden of Eros (2002) and ...miserere... (2004)...

Cello Counterpoint (2003) ist für acht Violoncelli geschrieben, die von einem Solo-Cello in Kombination mit zuvor aufgenommen Stimmen gespielt werden können. Eine entsprechende Einspielung ist in der...

This publication presents under one cover various short works for sundry orchestral scorings.Larghetto for Orchestra is MacMillan's orchestration (2017) of his celebrated Miserere for a cappella mixed...

Chorale (2001-02), for orchestra, is a kind of musical meditation on the chorale Es ist genug from Bach's cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, itself a harmonisation of J R Ahle's 1662 hymn. Nick Kimber...

Completed in short score in 2006 the composer played the symphony to his son Mikolaj on the piano that summer, commenting on many details. It fell to Mikolaj to complete the orchestration following hi...

New edition of this hitherto unpublished 13-minute work, which was first performed in 2002 by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. The title clearly suggests a parade; but, as...

Aus 'Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud'.