Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

Music to My Ears is an educational program for ages 5-10 commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts for the Evansville Philharmonic. With a script written by the composer, it teaches about mu...

Written with the same intent as Benjamin Britten's 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', this piece of educational music serves as something new for conductors to program for young audiences. A...

Written with the same intent as Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, this piece of educational music serves as something new for conductors to program for young audiences. The...

Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Premiere: January 15, 1986, Edmonton, Alberta; Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Glenn Mossop, conductor. The composer describes Crim...

Robert Sieving's arrangement of Allegro for Double Strings by Antonio Vivaldi, RV593, originally a motet featuring the vocal settingof Psalm 69 for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 SATB choirs, and double string o...

Commissioned by the Reston Community Orchestra, conducted by Dingwall Fleary, with a generous gift by John and Sue Adney.

Commisioned by the Eugene Symphony to honor the memory and celebrate the legacy of Steve Prefontaine. Movements: I. Terrain, II. School Days, III. 5k.

Based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. Movements: 1. When Horror and Death stalked the Countryside; 2. The Entrance of Prince Prosperoand his Courtiers; 3. Prince Prospero's Dance; 4. Jugglers, Jesters,...

Peng-Peng Gong's 8th Symphony was commissioned by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. The symphony was composed with a cultural ideal of blending world folk music into a single unity, expressing the...

This work is one of three pieces of educational programming by composer David Ott. Each begins with a video hosted by the composer explaining the relationship of music to other subjects or describing...

Premiered by the Northwest Florida Ballet, David Ott, Music Director conducting the Northwest Florida Ballet Orchestra on March 3 and 4, 2018 with choreography by Katia Garza of Mexico. Additional mus...

Peter Pan: Suite No. 1 is derived from the Peter Pan Ballet composed by David Ott. From the ballet, six separate dances describe various characters or actions from the story. The suite captures the es...

Peter Pan: Suite No. 2 is derived from the Peter Pan Ballet composed by David Ott. The energy and beauty and adventures associated with the wild tales of Peter Pan are brought to life in this descript...

This setting of the famous Christmas poem is for narrator with orchestra. Full Score

Commissioned by the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Peng-Peng Gong's 7th Symphony is described by the composer as being an almost Brahms-Dvorak piece. Instrumentation: 2+1.2.2.2: 4.3.2+BsTbn.1: Timp.Pno....

THREE TO GET READY by David Ott combines seven pieces, three by Ott and four from the wider repertoire, to serve as an educational work for school students, with THE WAY MUSIC BEGINS including educati...

This powerful symphonic poem by the master composer Yevhen Stankovych describes symbolism of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) River in Ukraine. A large river, it has long been a symbol of strength, stability a...

The continuing popularity of Eric Whitacre's dramatic and evocative music is evident in concert programming everywhere, with his symphonic, choral, and operatic works. October is arguably his most not...

Drake's libretto deftly weaves together a wide variety of texts, from actual communications sent on the morning of 9/11 to passages from the Latin Requiem Mass.

Instrumentation: perc(4): 3 gong/cel/vib/glsp/mar/5 bongo/timb/congas/timp/5 tom-t/BD/4 cencerro/3 tgl/musical saw/glasschimes/wood chimes/2 tam-t/3 susp.cym/4 tpl.bl/crot -harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2.picc.3.3.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): SD/cyms/BD- harp - strings or 2.2.2.1.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): SD/cyms/BD -strings