Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

The previously available performance material for Dvorák's sunny, cheerful Symphony No. 8 is notorious for its errors. The editor Jonathan Del Mar has taken on this comprehensive task of correction. H...

This separately published Critical Commentary offers extensive information on the genesis, reception, sources, and readings of the works included in the music volume.

The symphony "From the New World", a jewel of symphonic literature, is finally available in a reliable, scholarly-critical edition. Once again, editor Jonathan Del Mar brings clarity to the complex we...

Composed in 1876, Dvorák's only piano concerto has been overshadowed by his other two concertos, for violin and violoncello, respectively. Performers and editors have often attempted to upgrade this p...

> First Urtext edition of the original piano reduction<br>> Variants in the solo part rendered as ossia passages<br>> Foreword on the work’s genesis (Ger/Cz/Eng) and detailed Crit...

The first four symphonic poems from Smetana's six-part cycle Má vlast (My Country) were written in 1874-75 and arranged for piano duet shortly after the completion of the fourth part, From Bohemia's W...

Smetana composed the first four symphonic poems from the six-part cycle My Fatherland in the years 1874-1875 and, after completing the fourth part - From Bohemia's Grove and Field - he soon arranged a...

Since 2014, the six symphonic poems of the cycle "My Fatherland" by Bedrich Smetana have been published individually in new Urtext editions edited by Hugh Macdonald. Now all six parts of this unique w...

Since 2014, the six symphonic poems of Bedrich Smetana's cycle "My Fatherland" have been published individually by Bärenreiter in new Urtext editions, edited by Hugh Macdonald. The present edition com...

'I can't remember when another work made a more lively, beautiful impression on me' - this is what a very enthusiastic Felix Mendelssohn wrote to Niels Gade in January 1843. On March 2nd he premiered...

Gade composed the cantata 'The Crusaders' op. 50 for soloists, choir and orchestra (termed as 'Dramatic Poem' in the original print) in the summer of 1865; it was premiered on 24 April 1866. Together...

Psyches Liebe und innige Hingabe und Treue führen sie durch Leid und Tod zu einer höheren Welt und zu einem höheren, reineren Leben – es schmeckt doch immer nach Vogel, auch wenn man bloß den Flügelsc...

In the style of commedia dell'arte In 1918 Gabriel Fauré, then 73 years old, received a commission from Prince Albert I of Monaco to write stage music invoking the atmosphere of the 'commedia dell'art...

> First Urtext edition > Based on 'Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works' > Score and orchestral parts in a large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm) ncidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne' Fauré wrote 'Pelléas e...

> First Urtext edition > Based on 'Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works' > Score and orchestral parts in a large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm) ncidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne' Fauré wrote 'Pelléas e...

> First scholarly-critical edition of this famous symphony based on 'Camille Saint-Saëns - Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works' > Now with separate parts for all winds > Orchestral parts in a l...

I gave everything I could give in this work. [...] What I have done here, I will never do again. Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Third Symphony in C minor op. 78, dedicated to the mem...

Saint-Saëns was a great admirer of the symphonic poems by Franz Liszt. His own symphonic poem 'Danse macabre' reflects not only his affinity to medieval superstitions but also constitutes a tribute to...

Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is the first major Romantic work of this genre not to have been composed by a cellist. Nevertheless, Schumann, who worked on this late composit...

Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is the first major Romantic work of this genre not to have been composed by a cellist. Nevertheless, Schumann, who worked on this late composit...

Robert Schumann's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is the first major Romantic work in this genre that was not composed by a cellist. Nevertheless, Schumann, who worked on this late composition...