Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

Described with terms like 'sombre' or 'melancholy', Symphony No. 3, which was to remain the last by Rachmaninov, was written in the years 1935/38. In addition to the edition in the Masterworks Library...

Rachmaninoff's set of variations, originally composed in 1931 for piano solo, are here arranged by the Rumanian conductor Corneliu Dumbraveanu for chamber orchestra. This arrangement has been programm...

This work was commissioned by the Canary Islands Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was composed in 2009 and first performed on 21 January 2010 at Audit...

Speranza ist wohl bislang Turnages bedeutendstes Orchesterwerk und kommt der Form einer Symphonie wohl so nahe, wie keine andere seiner Kompositionen. Die vier Sätze sind überschrieben mit dem arabisc...

These ten Rachmaninoff songs, transcribed in 1963 for voice and orchestra by Vladimir Jurowski (senior), were revived in Sweden in 2011 conducted by his son Michail, and songs from the collection have...

30-minute suite for orchestra with female chorus from Khachaturian’s celebrated ballet, Spartacus (1955). Scenes 4 and 5 present the dramatic turning point where Spartacus is galvanised into leading t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Celebrated military marches for full orchestra composed in 1901, 1904, 1907 and 1930. Reissue of the original Boosey editions in Hawkes Pocket Scores series

Concert overture for full orchestra composed in 1900-01, and 'Dedicated to my friends the members of British orchestras'. Reissue of the original Boosey edition in Hawkes Pocket Scores series.

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...

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Klavierdirektion und Stimmen

Klavierdirektion und Stimmen

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