Scores for Orchestra

A kaleidoscopic showpiece for orchestra entirely worthy of its name. The piece bristles with contrast and energy. Within the first few minutes we journey from a mellifluous woodwind pastorale to a fan...

For string orchestra.

While Promenade Overture can be performed with the orchestra seated throughout, in traditional fashion, it is engineered to allow the players to enter playing, building the orchestra from an almost em...

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...

for SATB and orchestra. Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerfu...

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...

This piece was written for Denis Comtet who gave its first-ever performance at Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral on January 3rd, 2015. The contiguous piece is nonetheless articulated in 5 clearly defined par...

This piece was written for Denis Comtet who gave its first-ever performance at Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral on January 3rd, 2015. The contiguous piece is nonetheless articulated in 5 clearly defined par...

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...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, Ivanhoé belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de R...

My first contact with Brazil was Salvador de Bahia. From the beginning of my stay, the capital of the State of Bahia generated two emotional shocks. Walking through its historic center quickly led me...

The mandala, a medium used primarily for Buddhist meditation, is a diagram painted or traced on the ground with grains of rice or coloured powders, giving it an ephemeral character. As a symbol of the...

My first contact with Brazil was Salvador de Bahia. From the beginning of my stay, the capital of the State of Bahia generated two emotional shocks. Walking through its historic center quickly led me...

The mandala, a medium used primarily for Buddhist meditation, is a diagram painted or traced on the ground with grains of rice or coloured powders, giving it an ephemeral character. As a symbol of the...

During my stay in Argentina, particularly in Buenos Aires, I attended a tango show. My seat was in the front row. Being so close to the dancers and musicians gave me an intense feeling that I hadn't e...

During my stay in Argentina, particularly in Buenos Aires, I attended a tango show. My seat was in the front row. Being so close to the dancers and musicians gave me an intense feeling that I hadn't e...

Missa Deo gratias - for children choir, mixed choir, two organs, two trumpets, two trombones and percussions - was premiered on Sunday, June 25, 2000, at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, in the pres...

Details: 3 flutes (1st and 2nd playing the small flute), 1 oboe, 1 oboe d'amore, 1 English horn, 1 clarinet, 1 basset horn, 1 contrabassoon clarinet, 2 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets,...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, the Chœur de sylphes (Chorus of sylphs) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of t...

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...

Confronting the night is probably the first time a child feels destabilised. The familiar outlines of the bedroom fade away into the darkness, the comforting face of the mother disappears behind the d...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, Hymne belongs with L'Été, Sous-Bois and Pendant la tempête to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the competition fo...

The Piano Concerto in B minor op. 3 (MoszWV 160) was composed during his time in Berlin at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst where Moszkowski became a teacher in 1872 while he was still a student. Togeth...