Opere strumentali classiche per Orchestra

Die Ouvertüre zu Ruy Blas, die letzte von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy komponierte Ouvertüre, ist nicht als frei konzipierte Partitur, sondern als Eröffnungsstück einer Bühnenmusik entstanden. Allerdin...

Mahlers Neunte singt von Schönheit, Liebe und Vergänglichkeit. "Welt! Lebe wohl" notierte Mahler über den letzten Takten. Seine letzte vollendete Symphonie umarmt die Welt von Gestern und stößt zuglei...

Richard Strauss era consapevole (al più tardi dal successo del suo "Don Juan") della sua fama e soprattutto del suo "valore" come compositore, cosa che lo spinse, tra l'altro, a trascrivere nuovamente...

La Quinta Sinfonia "Lenore" op. 177 fu composta nel 1872 e mostra Joachim Raff come rappresentante di una via di mezzo tra l'estetica della Nuova Germania e la tradizione sinfonica. Deve il suo appell...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

Immediately after finishing his First Symphony in B flat major op. 38, Robert Schumann wrote the present D minor Symphony in 1841. Despite its successful world premiere at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on 4...

Si dice che "Il Danubio Blu" sia l'inno segreto dell'Austria e che, insieme alla "Marcia di Radetzky", sia il tradizionale bis del concerto annuale di Capodanno dell'Orchestra Filarmonica di Vienna. G...

Johann Strauß Sohn rivoluzionò il valzer viennese nel XIX secolo e lo rese popolare in tutto il mondo. Le sue opere, come i famosi valzer "Il bel Danubio blu" op. 314 e "Racconti dal bosco di Vienna"...

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

The text for the work was derived from a variety of poems by Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822) as suggested by Mre. Wharton. The poems used are: Asia: From Prometheus Unbound Good-Night Hymn to Intellectua...

Voices Shouting Out is a response to 9/11 that is marked by a sense of resiliency. In the composer's own words, It was a march to acknowledge those fighting on behalf of our safety, and yet a sparklin...

A four movement concerto that highlights the principal players of an orchestra, similar to the concerto grossos of the Baroque style. The first movement spotlights strings, the second brass, the third...