Scores for Orchestra

Commissioned in 1786 by the Paris-based orchestra Le Concert de la Loge Olympique, these six symphonies were created for an extraordinarily large ensemble of both professional and amateur players, inc...

Composed between 1889 and 1890, this first version of Claude Debussy's Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre was never performed or published during the composer's lifetime. It was only a year after his d...

Prélude - Fugue - Forlane - Rigaudon - Menuet - Toccata

Eduard Franck's Piano Concerto in D minor Op. 13 is the first major orchestral work by this Mendelssohn pupil. The pianist, already celebrated at a young age, had early plans for the piano concerto th...

The Critical Report on the Oratorio 'Elijah' concludes the five-volume edition on this major work by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It presents - for once in the form of a volume separate from the music...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy lived in the heyday of men's choruses. Early on, the composer had encountered the genre by way of his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter and his Berlin 'Liedertafel', founded in...

This volume of the Sibelius Complete Edition contains seven orchestral works, five of which Jean Sibelius originally composed as incidental music. However, he later separated these works from their co...

Symphony, symphonic poem, fantasy, or something else entirely different? For a long time while working on the Sixth Symphony, Sibelius was not certain what his new orchestral work was now about to bec...

In the fall of 1909, Sibelius wrote in his diary: 'At Koli! One of the greatest experiences of my life. Plans [for] 'La Montagne'! It turned out that these were plans for the Fourth Symphony. The comp...

Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky's Lux Aeterna for Violin and Orchestra.

Sergei Prokofiev's Alexandre Nevsky for Orchestra.

Edison Denisov's Symphonie De Chambre for Orchestra.