Boosey & Hawkes

Wörtlich übersetzt ist das Libretto ein 'kleines Buch', ein 'Büchlein'. Doch nicht irgendein Büchlein. Seit es Opern gibt, gibt es die Textbücher dazu. Oft erzählen die Universalsprache Musik und der...

Sergej Prokofjew ging im Jahr 1918 in die USA, wo er im darauffolgenden Jahr von der Chicago Opera Company den Opernauftrag erhielt. Die Uraufführung erfolgte dann dort am 30. Dezember 1921. Die Oper...

Unsuk Chin komponierte ihr Violinkonzert 2001 als ein Auftragswerk des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters in Berlin, bei dem sie Composer in Residence war. Die Uraufführung erfolgte im Januar 2002 in Berl...

Commissioned by ROCHE for the 2004 Lucerne Festival as a companion piece to The Shadow of Night, this latest addition to the Hawkes Pocket Score Series takes its title from the text of the John Dowlan...

2013 marks Brittens centenary making this year an important one for his music'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Britten was keen to provide the sing...

Neben den Studienpartituren der Reihe The Masterworks Library, in der die ersten beiden Klavierkonzerte Rachmaninows in einem einzigen Band erschienen sind (BH 6401237), sind nun beide Konzerte auch a...

Rachmaninov's Second Symphony was written ten years after his First Symphony, the failure of which had caused a serious creative crisis. He composed it while staying in Dresden and conducted the world...

Described with terms like 'sombre' or 'melancholy', Symphony No. 3, which was to remain the last by Rachmaninov, was written in the years 1935/38. In addition to the edition in the Masterworks Library...

Apart from the four piano concertos, Rachmaninov's 'Paganini Variations' are considered to be among his major works for piano and orchestra. One theme from the last of Paganini's '24 Capricci for Viol...

Rachmaninoff's set of variations, originally composed in 1931 for piano solo, are here arranged by the Rumanian conductor Corneliu Dumbraveanu for chamber orchestra. This arrangement has been programm...

This work was commissioned by the Canary Islands Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was composed in 2009 and first performed on 21 January 2010 at Audit...

Speranza ist wohl bislang Turnages bedeutendstes Orchesterwerk und kommt der Form einer Symphonie wohl so nahe, wie keine andere seiner Kompositionen. Die vier Sätze sind überschrieben mit dem arabisc...

These ten Rachmaninoff songs, transcribed in 1963 for voice and orchestra by Vladimir Jurowski (senior), were revived in Sweden in 2011 conducted by his son Michail, and songs from the collection have...

This was one of several concert pieces that Britten extracted from his 1953 coronation opera, a work which has only received its rightful due in recent years. The opera's dramatic core is the unfoldin...

30-minute suite for orchestra with female chorus from Khachaturian’s celebrated ballet, Spartacus (1955). Scene 9 presents the culmination of the drama, to music strongly reminiscent of Khachaturian’s...

30-minute suite for orchestra with female chorus from Khachaturian’s celebrated ballet, Spartacus (1955). Scenes 4 and 5 present the dramatic turning point where Spartacus is galvanised into leading t...

Erstveröffentlichung der Orchesterversionen der folgenden Werke Gerald Finzis: > Lo, the full, final sacrifice, op. 26 - Festival Anthem für Chor und Orchester (14 Minuten) > Magnificat, op. 36 - für...

Composer's Notes In writing this work I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title (Sacred Songs) is therefore slightly misleading as the...

Neuausgabe dieses enigmatischen, einsätzigen, 13-minütigen Werkes für Orchester, das in den frühen 1930er Jahren entstand. In seinem Vorwort kommentiert Gerard McBurney: Trozt der modernistischen Ober...

First publication of the orchestral cycle Songs of Travel, setting poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. Three of the nine orchestrations are by the composer, dating from 1905; the remainder were scored by...

New edition, with preface by Gerard McBurney. The work was composed in 1933-38 for one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century, Gregor Piatigorsky. McBurney explains that, somehow this concerto h...