Scores for Orchestra

French composer Henri Rabaud (1873-1949) composed the incidental music for an adaptation of Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (LE MARCHAND DE VENISE) by writer and Rabaud librettist Lucien Népoty....

TAHITI TROT, Op. 16 is an arrangement by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) for orchestra paraphrasing the song "Tea for Two" from the musical NO, NO, NANETTE by Vincent Youmans. It was composed in 1927...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) composed his CONCERTO FOR TRUMPET in E-flat, Hob.VIIe: 1 for the trumpet virtuoso Anton Weidinger. Weidinger was dissatisfied with the limited range of the "natural trum...

Revised version by the Gustav MahlerGesellschaft, Vienna

Partitur als Klavierauszug. Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), der letztgeborene Sohn Johann Sebastian Bachs, bildete sowohl hinsichtlich der von ihm gepflegten Kunstgattungen, wie auch seiner Musiksp...

Revised version by the Gustav MahlerGesellschaft, Vienna

Francois Joseph Fetis (1784-1871) war und ist vorwiegend als Musiktheoretiker und -schriftsteller bekannt. Auf diesem Sektor leistete er Grundlegendes einerseits durch das 1844 erschienene 'Traitee co...

Clarinet solo with full orchestra accompaniment. This is a fun and entertaining piece. The clarinet soloist, after stating the theme, proceeds to take away pieces of the instrument until, eventually,...

Joseph Haydn's La Canterina ('The Singing Girl') was one of the composer's earliest stage works, written in 1766 soon after Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had promoted him to first Kapellmeister. The libre...

Alcalay, herself an accomplished pianist, here combines virtuosic pianism with masterful colouristic orchestration.

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

Henry Purcell's only Opera proper, Dido and Aeneas is a magnificent example of English Baroque music, with lively dances and passionate aria sections that demonstrate Purcell's masterful compositional...

Of all the leading composers of the 18th century, only Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) is lacking a complete critical edition of his music and writings. Although held to be the equal of Corelli in his...

Geminiani’s six Concertos Op. 3 were first published in 1732 by John Walsh, in London; the next year, the Amsterdam music printer and publisher Michel-Charles Le Cène issued a revision by the composer...

In the second half of the 19th century, in Italy, melodrama was still the most practised musical genre, but space for instrumental production began to grow, especially thanks to the “Quartet societies...

Orchestral material according to the new Beethoven Complete Edition. All conducting scores and orchestral parts are available exclusively through Breitkopf & Härtel. The edition for 2 pianos (HN 629)...

Orchestral material according to the new Beethoven Complete Edition.

From Beethoven's drawer Mozart was of course a great model in the genre 'piano concerto' when Ludwig van Beethoven designed his first work (B flat major op. 19) in Bonn. Thus, in 1793, the young compo...

Große Linien, eingängige Melodien und romantische Klänge prägen das legendäre Zweite Klavierkonzert von Rachmaninow. Der Komponist spielte die Uraufführung im Oktober 1901 in Moskau selber. Schnell ge...