Modern Classical Music Sheet Music for String Orchestra

Streichorchester (mind. 8.0.4.3.2)

Bryars steers clear of the traditional virtuoso show-piece style concerto, instead opting for a work that, like baroque concertos, can be led by the soloist. There are allusions to Vivaldi's Four Seas...

The Fall of the Leafe is based on a piece for virginal from the Fitzwilliam collection and is characterised by a descriptive descending scale which imitates leaves falling in autumn. The piece has fur...

Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival and first performed there in 2007, The Seas of Kirk Swarf, like many of the composer's works, draws inspiration from the Orkney Isles where Maxwell Davies lives....

Written for the Hilliard Ensemble and the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the composer sets two texts from St. Columba about the power of the human voice. The work is divided into two part...

Having previously been granted the diploma of the Bologna Academy in December 2011, Maxwell Davies wrote his Concerto Accademico as both an expression of gratitude to the Regia Academia Filarmonico di...

I wanted to write a companion piece for Tiger Dancing, which was written for the choreographer Henri Oguike and his company. Although Eternity's Sunrise was written for the concert hall rather than th...

A lively set of variations for string orchestra originally written as a ballet for choreographer Henri Oguike. Tiger Dancing takes its name from The Tyger, a song Martland wrote based on a setting of...

Watkins' Little Symphony for string orchestra is a single movement in four closely linked sections alternating fast and energetic material with music that is slower and more lyrical. An important work...

Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Solo, Sprecher und Streichorchester, Bläser und Schlagzeug ad libitum Partitur - deutsch. Hindemiths lapidare Anweisung in der Originalpartitur zur 1932 komponierten 'Kantate' (...

Jon Lord dedicated the Suite for string orchestra to Sir Malcolm Arnold who is portrayed in the first movement. Another two musical pictures (his mother and an old friend) make the study of analogies...