Orchestra Study Scores

Byron Adams writes about his orchestral work *Midsummer Music*: *Midsummer Music* was inspired by a painting titled *Summer*, which the American Impressionist Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938) complete...

Co-commissioned by The Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras.

Shadows of a Changing Land takes inspiration from a book of photography by Peter Freeman depicting the Lake District National Park.

First performance give by Huw Watkins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen at the Barbican hall, London on 20 January 2017.

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate its 40th birthday. The first performance took place in June 1986 at St. Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall, as part of the tenth St...

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki's career spans more than 40 years, dating from the post-Stalinist era of the mid 1950s and embracing a catalogue of more than 70 acknowledged works. It was not, however, until t...

This piece was first performed in April 1977. This is the Chester Music edition but the original publishers were Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.

Full study score of ' Cinq Reflets De L'Amour De Loin ' by Kaija Saariaho, for Soprano, Baritone and Orchestra. Cinq Reflets was commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philarmonic Orchestra - Stockholm C...

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...

Study Score. Based on the famous medieval tapestries called La Dame à la Licorne, D'OM LE VRAI SENSE is a Clarinet Concerto commissioned by The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to clarin...

Study score for Britten's early and ambitious three-movement work (1932) for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, brought to light and edited by Colin Matthews for it first performance at the 1997 Aldeburgh F...

Trans, for harp and orchestra, premiered in Japan in 2016 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and harpist Xavier de Maistre. It was a co-commission between the Suntory Foundation for Arts, the Finnish R...

A WEDDING BOUQUET is undoubtedly Berners' most original and successful work. Some might say unique, since choral ballets are rare indeed. It is based on the opening pages of Gertrude Stein's play, The...

Iain Bell’s "Aurora" is a concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It premiered at the BBC Proms in 2018 with soprano...

Study Score for baritone and orchestra. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by Marcus Farnsworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins on 30th November 2018 at the Ba...

The original version of Kaija Saariaho’s Saarikoski-laulut for voice and piano (CH88086) was written for the soprano Anu Komsi, to whom the songs are dedicated. The song cycle is based on a collection...

Study score. Commissioned by the New Edinburgh Orchestra in celebration of Buzzy Murray. First performed on 19 March 2022 by the New Edinburgh Orchestra, conducted by Tim Paxton. Duration: c. 16 minut...

A reflection of her inscrutable attention to detail and fine musical sensibility, HUSH is Saariaho's final concerto, written for trumpet player Verneri Pohjola in 2023 and revisiting material from the...