Piano Excerpts

'My oboe concerto was created in 2009 and consists of the three parts Elegy, Duets and Finale con Epilogue which are played without a break. In the solo part, I wanted to express all tonal and technic...

A capricious, lyrical, and nostalgic work, it is often considered to be Vaughan Williams' most successful work in this form. The first movement is pastoral in feeling. The second movement begins with...

Oboe and Piano reduction of the concerto for Oboe and Strings op. 39. Suitable for grade 8 standard players.

A charming English neoclassical work in three movements. Concertante for Oboe and String Quartet (1947) is available in two editions: C683 This Piano Reduction (includes the Oboe part) C684 Full Scor...

A committed pacifist born into a renowned military family is met with a torrent of disapproval over his beliefs yet desperate to keep the love of his would-be bride, Owen is determined to prove his in...

Thomas Adès's Brahms for baritone and orchestra (2001) is a setting of Alfred Brendel's poem 'Brahms II' in which the malodorous ghost of Brahms stalks a house and plays the piano late at night. Adès...

Vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Rescue of Penleope , for narrator, four solo voices and orchestra. The concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza i...

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...

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...

John Milton's "Paradise lost" begins with the vision of Satan and his fainted angels in the burning lake of Hell after their vertiginous fall into the great Abyss. It is only after a few chapters that...

The ballet “Les Fêtes d'Hébé” deals with the talents that are usually the subject of the Opéra and are placed at the service of love on stage: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), song an...

Based on a short story by Judy Budnitz, Dog Days is a contemporary opera that investigates the psychology of a working class American family against a not-so-distant-future wartime scenario. It asks:...

Contains text versions in English, German and French.

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

The 28-year-old Jon Lord, with no experience at all of writing for orchestra, composed this work in only three months in the lead-up to its premiere with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Malcolm A...