Scores for Orchestra

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...

Partitur, 2.2.2.2 Holzbläser, 4.2.2.1 Blechbläser, 1.0 Pauken, Schlagzeug, 8.7.6.5.4 Streicher, 1 Xylophon

The music for this piece was inspired by a short extract from a traditional melody sung by women cloth-workers in Barra, in the Western Isles of Scotland. The Scottish folk music tradition is one that...

Within much of her work, Judith Weir has tried to portray the sky, stars and planets in her music and the Moon and Star follows the same path. This work based on poetry by Emily Dickinson uses the tex...

The variants of this piece chart the experience of the composer's musical journey from childhood as well as citing influences from other composers, including Brahms, the piece also draws connections b...

Arranged by Gian Francesco Malipiero

The composer writes 'MGV (Musique à Grand Vitesse - High-Speed Music) was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North-European line and was first performed by the Micha...

Claude T. Smith is well known for taking hymn tunes and creating thrilling arrangements. God of Our Fathers, our National Hymn, opens with an ominous trumpet and trombone trio introduction, followed b...

Claude T. Smith is well known for taking hymn tunes and creating thrilling arrangements. God of Our Fathers, our National Hymn, opens with an ominous trumpet and trombone trio introduction, followed b...

Besetzung: 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 2 Cor, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb

Sinfonisches Tongemälde - Rheinbergers 1. Sinfonie gehörte in den beiden Jahrzehnten nach ihrer Uraufführung 1866 zu den erfolgreichsten und meistgespielten neuen Sinfonien. Das 'sinfonische Tongemäld...

Florentiner Sinfonie - Seine zweite Sinfonie begann Rheinberger während einer Italienreise, die er 1874 zusammen mit seiner Frau unternahm. Den Kompositionsauftrag erhielt er von einer Orchestergesell...

Rheinbergers Konzertouvertüren stehen ganz in der Tradition der spätestens in den 1820er Jahren sich etablierenden Gattung, deren Verbreitung durch die Erstarkung eines bürgerlichen Musiklebens ebenso...

In Rheinbergers Orchesterbearbeitungen zeigt sich seine exzellente Instrumentationskunst ebenso wie eine latente orchestrale Klanglichkeit seiner vierhändigen Klaviermusik und seiner Werke für die Org...