Scores for Orchestra

Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) was written betweem 1876 and 1880 and is the final work composed by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), who died four months before the premiere, a fear that O...

Leon Jessel (1871-1942) composed his lighthearted march Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten) in 1905, and it quickly became a popular favorite in both Europe and America for its...

Iberia was originally a suite for piano composed by Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) between 1905 to 1909, published in four books comprised of 3 movements each. Albéniz wrote these in an impressionistic s...

The Nutcracker is a two-act "fairy ballet" written by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," the original 1892 produ...

FESTE ROMANE (ROMAN FESTIVALS) , P 157 is a tone poem in four movements completed in 1928 by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) . It is the last of his three tone poems about Rome, following FOUNTAINS OF R...

THREE BOTTICELLI PICTURES (TRITTICO BOTTICELLIANO or BOTTICELLI TRIPTYCH) is a set of pieces by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) meant to evoke three paintings by the painter Sandro Botticelli: La Primav...

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....

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

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...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

Gabriel Faure's (1845-1924) REQIUEM, Op. 48, is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed...

Gabriel Faure's (1845-1924) REQIUEM, Op. 48, is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed...

The Sleeping Beauty ballet in 3 acts, which tells the story of conflicting forces of good and evil, incorporates various fairy-tale characters from the Brothers Grimm and French fairy tales. Tchaikovs...

La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1791 after he had almost finished Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). Commissioned to celebrate...

Popularly know as the "New World Symphony," Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor was composed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America.  A major pa...

Written three years after his Manfred Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 was composed in 1888. Although it has been surpassed in popularity a bit over t...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Ferde Grofe's (1892-1972) Mississippi Suite depicts scenes along a journey down the Mississippi River, from its headwaters of Minnesota down to New Orleans. The work was composed in 1926 and first per...

Written between 1914 and 1917, Gustav Holst was initially inspired to compose THE PLANETS based on a conversation he had about astrology while on holiday in Spain with some friends in 1913. Intrigued...

This arrangement by William Ryden is close to Brahms' original Hungarian Dances Nos. 5 & 6 The Kalmus edition has been re-edited, with a few of the most difficult parts adjusted for practicality....

This delightfully eerie piece is now available in a slightly abridged version suitable for better orchestras. A much better choice than using the original edition.

If the name of this one isn't familiar to you, just think dancing hippos from "Fantasia." Everyone will recognize this delightful piece, and it's wonderfully fun to play. From Ponchielli's ballet "La...

This orchestration, which is completely original, is primarily based on the autograph manuscript. In accordance with the purpose of the ConcertMasters orchestra series, the orchestra size has been kep...

From Smetana's famous Bohemian opera, "The Bartered Bride," this familiar movement is an audience favorite with its lively rhythms and characteristic melodies. It's edited from the original and has so...