Overtures for Orchestra

Although Mozart wrote with incredible versatility in every musical genre, his operas, for many, stand highest among his achievements. This volume contains the composer's greatest operatic overtures, e...

This overture was written for and premiered by the Saint Andrew Orchestra in Edinburgh, which I was conducting at the time. The opening theme has a strong Scottish character, but the later material re...

This overture was written for and premiered by the Saint Andrew Orchestra in Edinburgh, which I was conducting at the time. The opening theme has a strong Scottish character, but the later material re...

This junior level full orchestra piece explores three tableaus of human/equestrian collaboration: one dignified and martial, a second festive and light-hearted, and a third tranquil and thoughtful. Al...

This junior level full orchestra piece explores three tableaus of human/equestrian collaboration: one dignified and martial, a second festive and light-hearted, and a third tranquil and thoughtful. Al...

This junior level full orchestra piece explores three tableaus of human/equestrian collaboration: one dignified and martial, a second festive and light-hearted, and a third tranquil and thoughtful. Al...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes (2nd doubles piccolo), Oboe, 2 Clarinets in A & Bb (or only Bb), Bassoon 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 2 Trombones Timpani, Triangle, Bass drum & Cymbal [1 player] Strings (V...

George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) loved to read, a fact well-represented by his Don Quixote Suite: Ouverture in G No. 10, TWV 55:G10 (Burlesque de Quichotte) for strings. Introducing his subject wit...

George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) loved to read, a fact well-represented by his Don Quixote Suite: Ouverture in G No. 10, TWV 55:G10 (Burlesque de Quichotte) for strings. Introducing his subject wit...

Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) opéra comique in two acts, Béatrice et Bénédict, was completed in 1862. The French libretto was completed by Berlioz, after a subplot from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Noth...

Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) opéra comique in two acts, Béatrice et Bénédict, was completed in 1862. The French libretto was completed by Berlioz, after a subplot from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Noth...

Written between October 1809 and June 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Egmont, Op. 84 is a set of ten incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....

The comic operetta DIE FLEDERMAUS (The Bat) by Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) is the composer's best known operetta, though "The Waltz King" is perhaps better remembered yet for his contribut...

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) wrote Barbe-bleue (Bluebeard, Eng.; Blaubart, Ger.) while travelling in 1865. An opéra bouffe in three acts, with a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ba...

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) composed Overture on Jewish Themes (or Overture on Hebrew Themes), Op. 34, in 1919 for the uncommon combination of clarinet, string quartet, and piano, and this original v...

Ernst Toch's (1887-1964) CIRCUS: AN OVERTURE, written in 1953 is meant to evoke the atmosphere of a circus and recalls some of the most common types of music heard there. The piece opens and closes wi...

Unlike Bach and Chopin, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) wrote his twenty-four PRÉLUDES for solo piano without a clearly organized pattern of key relationships. They were written from December 1909 to April...

Born in Venezuela, but raised in Paris, Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) was drawn early in life to fashionable salons, singing his own songs from the piano. There he mingled with such luminaries as Mallarme...

The overture to THE SONG OF HIAWATHA was composed in 1899 for the Norwich Triennial Musical Festival performance of HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST, then published separately from any of the three Hiawatha c...