Scores for Orchestra

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts fr...

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels 12th October 2001. Composer's Notes: I have been very familiar with the flute since my earli...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's first large scale orchestral work is this Concerto for saxophone and orchestra ('...auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen...') which dates from 1980-81 when he was undertaking an...

With a libretto written by Judith herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group rathe...

From an 18, 000 verse Hindu text, the Bhagavata Purana composed about AD900, this extract is about the coming of the yearly monsoon rain. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchsetra on the occasion of the...

Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the...

This concert version has been prepared by Donald Mitchell for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone soloists, 1 or 2 speakers, SATB choir and Orchestra. The text has been compiled by R. Ellis Roberts. Th...

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C, it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. S...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Natural History was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was written for the voice of Dawn Upshaw. The first performance was given by these artists, conducted...

Kevin Volans ' Piano Concerto No. 4 was commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with financial assistance from Arts for All and many individuals through BCMG's Sound Investment Scheme. Th...

Danse Infernale from the Firebird Suite is Stravinsky at its best! Challenging but eminently playable, this is truly one of Issac's great arrangements and a Belwin Classic orchestra piece! This title...

The music of Grieg is expressed very well in this two-part suite for full orchestra. The melodies are familiar, and Merle Isaac's fine arrangement is an excellent choice for either concert or contest...

One of the most memorable and beautiful melodies ever written by Tschaikowsky has now been arranged for school groups by Merle Isaac. A medium-advanced work, of course, but well worth the necessary pr...

Taken from Camille Saint-Saëns' most successful opera, this powerful and energetic arrangement challenges all sections, yet is within the grasp of high school orchestras. Another skillful Merle Isaac...

Mozart wrote this symphony in 1768 at the age of 12 dedicating it to the Benedictine monastery of Lambach. The structure of this score follows the rediscovered parts - the autograph has disappeared.

In dem Concerto des auch als Flötist berühmten französischen Komponisten sind klassische Heiterkeit und elegante Virtuosität miteinander verbunden.

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

In einer Mischung aus Kantate und Konzertstück vertont Beethoven in der Chorfantasie eine Hymne auf die Kunst. Das etwa zwanzigminütige Werk wird oft als Vorläufer der 'Ode an die Freude' der 9. Symph...

So sangen die Parzen, die Schicksalsgöttinnen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie: Von Fluch und Schicksal handelt das Parzenlied in Goethes Versdrama "Iphigenie auf Tauris", das zur Vorlage für Johan...

A sacrilege or a stroke of genius? The composer and music director Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) orchestrated the first movement of the famous 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven (transposed to C mi...

Goethes dramatische Ballade "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" inspirierte Mendelssohn zu einer großartigen und plastischen Darstellung des Konfliktes zwischen einer alten heidnischen Gemeinschaft und den neu...