Scores for Orchestra

The Bernd Alois Zimmermann Complete Edition (BAZ-GA) is published as a hybrid edition and consists of a printed edition published in hardcover and a digital, internet-based edition. The separation int...

In his preface to the new critical edition of the 'Seventh Symphony', Dr. Reinhold Kubik (editor and vice-president of the International Gustav Mahler Society) reflects on the reception of Mahler and...

Brahms' sketch of his 'Vier Ernste Gesänge' suggests the possibility of orchestration. 'Detlev Glanert took up this suggestion and developed it even further. He orchestrated the songs for orchestra, a...

Le va et le vient is a suite de ballet which might well one day return to the stage as a ballet. Originally commissioned by Merce Cunningham and performed under the title Set, Hold, Clear and Squelch...

Metamusik is not only the title of this work, but also a concept with which the composer has attempted to describe his style. He considers Metamusik to be 'a semantic overtone above music'. 'Meta', Si...

Symphony no. 6 is 'a gigantic farewell symphony written at the end of the millenium. It is at one and the same time retrospective, sums up, and, in a visionary manner, is directed towards the future ....

The work was inspired by the work of the Russian poet Xenia Nekrassova, who, after achieving some success in the 1950s, died forgotten and in complete poverty. The childish and naïve character of her...

Peter Tchaikovsky based the fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet, which he composed in October and November 1869, on Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. The idea of the work had been suggested to him...

Immerse yourself in the timeless world of Sergei Prokofiev's unforgettable masterpiece, "Peter and the Wolf" Op. 67. For generations, this world-renowned musical fairy tale has enchanted children and...

With the world-famous "Vocalise, Op. 34/14", Sergei Rachmaninoff created one of the most moving and lyrical melodies in music history. Originally conceived as a wordless song, the work unfolds an inco...

Sketches were rediscovered in some papers in the library of the Royal School of Church Music, including the main tune and other promising fragments of material which provided links to another near-ind...

Composed in 2005 to commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, in memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky. The world première took pl...

Composed in 2007 to commission by the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker and the San Francisco Symphony. Whilst the work's title is taken from the last section of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder it makes no ex...

A cycle of six of Finzi's songs arranged for voice and chamber orchestra to mark the composer's centenary in 2001. One of them, When I set out for Lyonnesse, was a hitherto unpublished orchestration o...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Experience the sparkling charm and carefree elegance of Sergei Prokofiev's world-famous Gavotte from the Symphonie Classique Op. 25. This captivating movement effortlessly blends the graceful dance ch...

Experience a monumental masterpiece of choral music: the moving “Requiem” (GA II/12b) unfolds with incomparable emotional depth and spiritual power. Scored for soprano and baritone soloists, a magnifi...

Prepared from the composer's original manuscript

Experience the biblical story of Noah's Ark brought vividly to life with Benjamin Britten's masterpiece 'Noye's Fludde op. 59'. Based on the medieval Chester Miracle Play—featuring texts edited by Alf...

Immerse yourself in the timeless elegance of Neoclassicism: With "Apollon Musagète – Ballet in 2 Scenes", Igor Stravinsky created an incomparable masterpiece full of graceful clarity, rhythmic finesse...

Recomposed for instruments by Igor Stravinsky

Contents: Silken Shoes - Irmelin - The Seraglio Garden - The Violet - Cynara - A Late Lark - Sakuntala.