Scores for Orchestra

Henri Vieuxtemps composed the fantasia La Sentimentale in readiness for his second tour of Russia in 1839-1840. In terms of its character, the fantasia is marked by bel canto opera. Vieuxtemps himself...

Vieuxtemps' 8th Violin Concerto, dedicated to Eugène Ysaye, could not be completed by him before his death, the autograph sketches have been lost, and only a contemporary transcript of the piano reduc...

Vieuxtemps wrote these variations when he was barely 18 years old, before a concert tour to Russia. They fulfill the classical ideal of a 'pure, innocent' expression to a particular degree and can be...

Final(ment)e, Interplay of relationships for two trumpets and orchestra, was composed as an atmospheric counterpart to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Several quotations from that monumental work flowed...

At the age of 15, several years before his well-known violin concertos, Henri Vieuxtemps wrote a so far unpublished violin concerto in E major. It is an ingenious work of his youth that already reveal...

A gorgeous rock ballad for solo oboe, orchestra and jazz rhythm section, Thoughts on an August Day is the perfect addition to any summer pops concert. Feature your oboe player in this tender interlude...

A full-out gallop from start to finish, The Race Horse is a thrilling moto perpetuo that will have the audience riveted by its driving rhythmic energy and cinematic style! Includes clarinet parts in A...

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.

Preface Hubert Parry did not attend a music college, unlike his colleague C. V Stanford, who studied at Leipzig. True, Parry had been the youngest graduate in music (at 18) from Oxford – a record that...

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)...

Experience Beethoven's masterful dramatic concert aria in its definitive form: "Ah! Perfido / Per pietà, non dirmi addio" Op. 65 is among the composer's most expressive and gripping vocal works. Score...