Classical Sheet Music for Chamber Orchestra

In 1892, Dvorák was honored to receive a commission from New York to compose a festive cantata to mark the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America. Within a short space of tim...

In 1892, Dvorák was honored to receive a commission from New York to compose a festive cantata to mark the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America. Within a short space of tim...

„Der geistlichen Musik die Kraft zuzuwenden, bleibt ja wohl das höchste Ziel des Künstlers“, schreibt Robert Schumann im Januar 1851 - und das, obwohl er bis dato kaum als Komponist geistlicher Musik...

Mendelssohn described his 1840 work Lobgesang as “a symphony for chorus and orchestra”. It is now firmly established in the standard repertoire of the major oratorio choirs. For many choirs, Lobgesang...

Mendelssohn's St. Paul with just seven instead of the usual 18 wind instruments? Thanks to this arrangement for chamber orchestra, a performance with smaller forces is now possible, and presents an at...

Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias (Elijah) was composed at a time when large choral societies were formed and music festivals involving hundreds of singers were all the fashion. 271 singers and 125 orchest...

But, dear Beethoven, what have you done again? Even if the authenticity of this statement, which was quoted by Anton Schindler, may be doubted, it reflects quite well the confusion that the Mass in C...

While Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger composed a significant number of works for worship, his MASS IN C MAJOR, Op. 169 for soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra is the only mass to include orchestral accomp...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) began work on his version of the traditional hymn, Stabat Mater, in 1831 at the request of one Fernández Varela. As ill health kept Rossini from completing the commission...

This is the second of six Masses composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), also referred to frequently as the "Mass in G," and it remains the best known of the three shorter settings titled &q...

This is the second of six Masses composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), also referred to frequently as the "Mass in G," and it remains the best known of the three shorter settings titled "Mass." Comp...

The most famous of several Vivaldi works entitled Gloria (RV 589), this edition by Clayton Westermann includes a short preface to explain performance practice. Of the three recorded Glorias Vivaldi wr...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote numerous versions in G minor of the Magnificat canticle, making alterations to his own settings over his decades serving as director of music at the Ospedale della Pi...

KOMM, SÜSSER TOD (Come, Sweet Death) was originally written for solo voice and basso continuo as part of the 69 SACRED SONGS AND ARIAS that J. S. Bach contributed to MUSICALISCHES GESANGBUCH by Georg...

Each of the five connected movements in this choral cycle contains references to 'Light, ' assembled from various sacred Latin texts. I composed Lux Aeterna in response to my mother's final illness an...

Live performance includes rehearsal with audience. Movements may be performed separately.

Written as a ballet for small orchestra. This work lasts c. 25 minutes and was first performed on 25/1/2004 at the Royal College of Music, London by the Royal College of Music Sinfonietta, conducted b...

Music from the award-winning BBC dramatization of Jane Austen's Novel Pride and Prejudice arranged for small orchestra. Instrumentation: 1220 - 2000 – pno or fortepiano – strings

'Perfectly structured music of great beauty, fleet-footed and profound, varied and thoughtful... Benjamin possesses a passionate, almost fanatical, gift for tone colour... ' NRC Handelsblad (Joe Stack...

For Soprano and Chamber Orchestra. Six poems by Elizabeth Bishop.