Scores for Orchestra

Six épigraphes antiques was originally written in 1914 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) for piano duo. While the composer himself transcribed the work for solo piano the following year, the first orchest...

Franz Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) CONCERTO FOR CELLO in C, Hob. VIIb: 1 is a rare instance where a masterpiece was lost, in this case for almost 200 years, before being rediscovered. The manuscript was...

Written sometime between 1795-1800, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Primo amore piacer del ciel for soprano and ensemble is a setting of a work that may have been penned by Italian poet and librett...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) began to work on his POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEM OF LOVE AND THE SEA), OP. 19, in 1882. The composer chose two poems written by his friend Maurice Bouchor as source...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

Originally written as a suite for solo piano, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) later orchestrated four movements from Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1919 (Prélude, Forlane, Menuet, and Rigaudon). This orchestral...

Originally written as a suite for solo piano, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) later orchestrated four movements from Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1919 (Prélude, Forlane, Menuet, and Rigaudon). This orchestral...

The music for The Magic Toy Shop, a one act ballet about a love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toy shop, is based on piano pieces that were a part of Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse. Respi...

The music for The Magic Toy Shop, a one act ballet about a love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toy shop, is based on piano pieces that were a part of Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse. Respi...

Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and premiering on March 14 1847, MACBETH was Verdi's tenth opera and the first genuine masterpiece of his career. Adamant about creating an opera "unl...

LE ROI MALGRÉ LUI (THE RELUCTANT KING) is a comic opera by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), based on a 1836 vaudeville play by Virginie Ancelot. The stage work depicts the brief reign of Henri, Duke of...

When Max Reinhardt was engaged to direct a German language production of Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Vienna Volksbühne in 1918, he asked Korngold to compose the incidental music. The p...

ODELETTE for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 162, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in the last year of his life, refers to the secular variety of the ode, an ancient Greek poetic form praising a p...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40, was completed in 1926. The work exists in three versions. Following its unsuccessful premiere, the composer made cuts and oth...

Between 1917 and 1931, Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) transcribed three orchestral suites from original pieces written for lute between the 16th and 18th centuries. The first suite, written in 1917, in...

George Frideric Händel (1685-1759) was contracted to write Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 in 1749 by George II of Great Britain to be performed in London's Green Park on April 27 of that year...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed the Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, knows as the "Linz Symphony," within a few days in October/early November 1783 in the palace of Count Johann Joseph...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) completed his Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB in October of 1773, when the young composer was only 17 years old. One of two symphonies Mozart wrote in G mi...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter' was completed on August 10th, 1788. The last and longest of his symphonies, it is uncertain if the work was ever perf...

As an inexhaustible proponent of Beethoven's life and work, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) produced a number of arrangements and transcriptions in homage to the great composer. His FANTASIE ÜBER MOTIVEN AUS...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) La Valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), has a somewhat storied history that has resulted in numerous interpretations of the work...

First written in 1868 by a young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), this orchestral suite was originally titled his SYMPHONY No. 2 by the composer, though it was always a programmatic telling of the...

The music for LA BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE (THE MAGIC TOY SHOP), a one act ballet about a love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toy shop, is based on piano pieces that were a part of Rossini's Péc...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

Writing it between 1914 and 1917, Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was initially inspired to compose THE PLANETS based on a conversation he had about astrology while on holiday in Spain with some friends in 1...