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Having considered writing a Requiem for many years, Martin finally became obsessed with its creation only shortly before his own death. A Calvinist Protestant, he had turned to Roman Catholic texts ea...

Movements: I. Andante spianato - Allegro, II. Regrets, III. Finale. Premiere: William Bolcom, piano, Seattle Symphony, Milton Katimsconducting, 1976.

Dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt, Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3 'Organ' Op. 78 in D minor is one of the most important works in French symphonic music. The piece was commissioned by the London Phi...

Brahms' first Piano Concerto began life as a design for a symphony. However, daunted by the legecy of Beethoven, Brahms' inexperience caused him to reorganise the piece as a more modest Sonata for two...

One of the greatest piano virtuosos of all time, Franz Liszt composed piano music marked by its technical brilliance, innovation, and imagination. This collection presents authoritative miniature scor...

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

Just as the Payne/Elgar Symphony No. 3 is not Edward Elgar's definitive statement, Mahler did not complete a Symphony No. 10. He did, however, leave 'a work fully prepared in the sketch, ' the complet...

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920) was an American composer, whose life was tragically cut short by influenza at the age of 35. His Poem For Flute And Orchestra (1919) was one of the last worksco...

Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955, when he was in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony, and is considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre mo...

This scholarly edition replaces the original 1958 edition, and includes detailed preliminary matter comprising a preface, sources and editorial method, and detailed textual notes. Orchestral material...

The one-act ballet Job has been described as one of Vaughan Williams's mightiest achievements. It is a work which, in a full production, combines painting, literature, music, and dance. The work was i...

Originally the title for Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love, Fat Knight was conceived as a seven-movement orchestral suite that drew upon the opera and had, as its central character, Shakespear...

This four-act comic opera celebrating Shakespeares Sir John Falstaff was given its first professional performance in 1946. The libretto, written by the composer, is based on The Merry Wives of Windsor...

In this joyous and colourful piano concerto, John Rutter both reflects, and reflects upon, the many soundworlds and styles that have inspired him. The 40-minute work, in four movements, is virtuosic f...

This edition of the Concerto for piano in E flat major is based on the manuscript D-11708 (1) of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The manuscript bundle comprises the individual parts for piano an...

This score in two parts - Prologue and Epilogue -, with a specific libretto and requiring a staging, was commissioned by the Mozarteum University in Salzburg to provide a framework for the production...

Though listed in all d'Indy catalogues and biographies, the Italian Symphony had long remained unpublished. D'Indy was just 18 when he wrote these lines. When he obtained his French literature "Baccal...

With Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck stood against more than a century and a half of Italian tradition and became the unavoidable figure of the history of opera. In collaboration with Calzabigi, he refused t...

Hérold's second, and last, symphony, the 2nd Symphony in D major, was composed in Naples in May 1814. In a letter to his mother, the composer writes: "Many greetings to Mr. Méhul. I have just written...

When Azémia ou Les Sauvages is created at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on May 3rd, 1787, the opéra comique is a genre in full development, fostered by the uprising publishing industry, the travellin...

Faced with the evolution of the symphony prompted by Beethoven at the beginning of the 19th century, many composers turned away from this genre, considering his nine symphonies as an unsurpassable ide...

The Second Concerto adopts the key of D minor for the first and third movements, and B flat major for the second. The fairly full orchestra consists of 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and strin...

During the French Revolution, the Consulate and the Empire, Méhul may have been the only major French composer to fully understand and assimilate the latest perfections of the music in his times. Taug...