String Orchestra with Instrumental Solo

Les Pauvres was expertly composed, in 1919, by Belgian organist, composer, and music educator Joseph Jongen. Les Pauvres translates, in English, to The Poor. Jongen 's list of opus numbers eventually...

Single-movement lyrical piece with a solo violin and solo piano part, performance time ca. 2-3 minutes

A 6-minute lyrical piece for solo cello and strinfgs first performed publicaly in the early 1990s by the Central Music School in Tallinn, Estonia.

Written for string orchestra and string quartet. Composer's Notes: This piece was written in memory of my daughter, and this fact largely determines not only its general character but also its formal...

The composer writes: Commissioned by HRH the Prince of Wales in memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and in Aid of The Saints Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy, Moscow. Esoterically s...

Written for piano and string orchestra.

Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to 'Dido and Aeneas' is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Qu...

First performance on 11th August 2012 at the Cadogan Hall, London, by Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais) and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Clark Rundell, as part of the B...

Britten's Two Portraits for strings - the composer himself called them 'Sketches' - were composed in August and September 1930, during the summer holidays preceding the sixteen-year-old composer's fir...

This valuable though seldom played early work from his Salzburg period contains the entire youthful charme of Mozart. It can be played without wind instruments whose parts are in-cluded in the strings...