Scores for Orchestra

Byron Adams writes about his orchestral work *Midsummer Music*: *Midsummer Music* was inspired by a painting titled *Summer*, which the American Impressionist Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938) complete...

Composed in 2000 and thoroughly revised in 2014, Byron Adams’ Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is dedicated to the memory of his mentor, Ellis Bonoff Kohs. Using a musical cipher, the composer transfo...

This concerto was rediscovered by the editor in Paris. Its style is late classical - virtuoso and very guitaristic. The orchestral accompaniment is rather simple and transparent. An effective piece pa...

In the concerto of the French composer, also a famous flautist, classical cheerfulness and elegant virtuosity are combined with each other.

Christmas Day by Gustav Holst is an artfully crafted fantasia based on traditional English Christmas carols. Composed in 1910, the work weaves together familiar melodies such as "Good Christian Men, R...

Gabriel Fauré’s "Pavane" is one of his most popular compositions. What is less known, however, is that the premiere of this stylized dance in April 1888 was actually performed in this present version...

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed his Reformation Symphony for the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the 'Confessio Augustana,' the Protestant declaration of faith. Owing to various and...

Experience a radiant masterpiece of the Viennese Classical era: The Concert Rondo in A major, K. 386 for piano and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enchants with its graceful melodic lines, playfu...