Symphonies for Orchestra

Symphony in D major (Sinfonía a Gran Orquesta) was composed in 1824 by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806-1826), the remarkable Spanish composer whose precocious talent earned him the nickname "the Span...

Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hob. I:26 ("Lamentatione" / "Christmas Symphony") was composed in 1768 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) during his early tenure at the Esterházy court, a period marked by...

Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hob. I:26 ("Lamentatione" / "Christmas Symphony") was composed in 1768 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) during his early tenure at the Esterházy court, a period marked by...

Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 5 ("Slavonic") was composed in 1880-1882 by Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) when the composer was only sixteen years old, making it one of the most remarkable orchestral...

Symphony No. 59 in A major, Hob. I:59 ("Feuersinfonie" / "Fire") was composed in the late 1760s (c. 1768) by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) during his early years at the Esterházy court, a period mark...

Symphony No. 59 in A major, Hob. I:59 ("Feuersinfonie" / "Fire") was composed in the late 1760s (c. 1768) by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) during his early years at the Esterházy court, a period mark...

Symphony No. 92 in G major ("Oxford"), Hob. I:92 was composed in 1789 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) during the final years of his service to the Esterházy court, just before his celebrated London...

Symphony No. 92 in G major ("Oxford"), Hob. I:92 was composed in 1789 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) during the final years of his service to the Esterházy court, just before his celebrated London...

The Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163 by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was composed in 1889 at Vysoká u Príbrame, Bohemia, on the occasion of his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Lite...

Sergei Prokofiev began work on Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 in 1916, but wrote most of it in 1917, completing the piece on September 10, 1917. The symphony was premiered on April 21, 1918 in Petr...

Completed in 1922, Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872-1958) inspiration for his PASTORAL SYMPHONY (SYMPHONY No. 3) came during World War I after hearing a bugler practicing and accidentally playing an inte...

Completed in 1922, Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872-1958) inspiration for his PASTORAL SYMPHONY (SYMPHONY No. 3) came during World War I after hearing a bugler practicing and accidentally playing an inte...

Completed in 1922, Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872-1958) inspiration for his PASTORAL SYMPHONY (SYMPHONY No. 3) came during World War I after hearing a bugler practicing and accidentally playing an inte...

The composer writes: 'My Symphony is in two movements which, however, are played without a break. Taken together they progress from the extremely high, almost unison screams and glissandi of the openi...

For Orchestra. Premiered by The Royal Danish Orchestra, conducted by Michael Schonwandt, Koncerthuset, DR, 29th May 2009. Commissioned by and written for The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in th...