Orchestra Study Scores

The complete study score of Arthur Bliss' 1937 ballet, Checkmate. With its theme of a war based in the game of chess, it never fails to spark the imagination with its depiction of the struggle between...

This work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and it was completed in January 2004. First performance by the Boston Symphony, conductor Grant Llewellyn, April 1, 2004.

Sir Malcolm Arnold's Second Symphony was commissioned by the Winter Garden's Society, Bournemouth, and is dedicated to Charles Groves and the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, in celebration of the Dia...

Gaudiana was first performed at L'Auditori Barcelona, Spain, on 2, 3 and 4 December 2005, by the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya conducted by Rumon Gamba.

Malcolm Arnold's ever popular set of by turn lusty and lyrical reels and strathspeys, now in study score format, newly engraved and corrected for the first time since its publication in 1957.

Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the 2012 BBC Proms. First performed on 5th August 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Donald Runnicles. Instrume...

Malcolm Arnold's ballet in one act Electra is presented here as a full study score. Based on a reduced version of Sophocles' play, Arnold's ballet was commissioned by the Royal Ballet, and first perfo...

For a man who achieved so much in his own field, Bliss's wide-ranging, undogmatic appetite for the whole arts scene was extraordinary. While he had a profound knowledge and understanding of American a...

An orchestral work that imitates the sounds of the technological society that we live in

Written for orchestra. Commissioned by the City of Glasgow to mark the opening of a new International Concert hall on 19 October 1990, and to celebrate the city as cultral capital of Europe. Rainbow i...

J S Bach composed the Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor in approximately 1723 when he was in Weimar. Elgar proposed an Orchestration of the work dividing the work into two parts with Richard Strauss in th...

Falstaff (Symphonic study in C minor) in miniature score. Time of performance- 30 minutes.

Miniature score of Elgar's Enigma Variations.