Partiture per orchestra

Dark Eyes is a well-known Russian romance song. The lyrics, written by Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka, were first published in 1843. The melody, to which the lyrics are set is by German-Polish compose...

The Guaracha is the Third Movement from Mr. Gould's fourth Symphonette, LATIN AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE, which is in four movements - Rhumba, Tango, Guaracha, and Conga.  The Guaracha, relatively spea...

Leroy Anderson completò quattro opere nel 1953: "Song of the Bells", "Summer Skies", "The Girl in Satin" e "Concerto in C per pianoforte e orchestra". Ha commissionato una casa moderna per sé e la sua...

Programme Note from original publication - This work was first played in America by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in June, 1910, and was the result of a commission from Mr. Carl Stoeckel, to who...

L'opera più lunga di Ravel, quasi un'ora, il balletto completo in un atto Daphnis et Chloe, fu descritto dal compositore come una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonia coreografica). Ravel in...

AUX ÉTOILES (ALLE STELLE), composto nel 1874, è un breve poema per orchestra del compositore francese Henri Duparc (1848-1933). Originariamente era stato pensato per un'opera in tre movimenti intitola...

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) composed the beautiful Serenade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 11 in 1884, before his "creative crisis" of 1890. For a small orchestra, it was premiered in 1885, his friend and m...

Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 63, was composed in 1911, with the premiere taking place at the London Musical Festival by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Elgar conducting, on May 2...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) iniziò a lavorare alla sua SINFONIA N. 4, Op. 36 nel 1877 e la terminò l'anno successivo. Iniziata subito dopo aver instaurato la sua relazione con la mecenate di...

Written three years after his Manfred Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 was composed in 1888. Although it has been surpassed in popularity a bit over t...

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) four-act opera-ballet Mlada was originally conceived as a collaborative project with music provided by five composers: César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsk...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scrisse musica per il dramma di William Shakespeare SOGNO DI UNA NOTTE DI MEZZA ESTATE in due diverse occasioni. La prima volta scrisse l'ouverture da concerto in mi magg...

The Nutcracker is a two-act “fairy ballet” written by Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893). Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the original 1892 pro...

Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five...

These Three Marches, K. 408 (K. 383e [No. 1], K. 385a [No. 2], K. 383f [No. 3]) were composed for orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1782. Instrumentation: 2.2.0.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Ma mère l'Oye (Mamma Oca) di Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) trae ispirazione dalle fiabe di Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy e Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel compose il primo movimento Pavane de...

Ma mère l'Oye (Mamma Oca) di Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) trae ispirazione dalle fiabe di Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy e Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel compose il primo movimento Pavane de...

Durante il suo viaggio di nozze in Italia nel 1891, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) si imbatté nel dipinto di Tiziano Il miracolo del marito geloso a Padova. Il risultato fu la sua prima opera corale, HYMNUS...

VALSES NOBLES ET SENTIMENTALES è una delle numerose opere di Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) che riflettono il suo fascino per la semplicità contagiosa del valzer. Utilizzando le raccolte di valzer di Franz...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

VESTAS FEUER (LA FIAMMA VESTALE) per quartetto vocale e orchestra è l'unico frammento superstite di un'opera progettata da Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) su libretto del drammaturgo e impresario Ema...