Partiture per orchestra

Originally composed for piano, this orchestration from Lecuona's celebrated Andalucia Suite by Morton Gould is a sure crowd-pleaser! Instrumentation: 2(1dPicc).2.2+BCl..1: 4Sax(opt.): 2.3.3.1: Perc(2)...

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...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) aveva inizialmente previsto che le Images pour orchestre fossero il seguito della prima serie di Images per pianoforte solo. Tuttavia, intorno al 1905, decise di orchestrare...

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

Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985) has been described as the first Swedish modernist composer. Influenced by Sibelius in his early years, he later absorbed the work of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Hindemith...

While his Symphony No. 9 is better known, Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 7 is argued by many to be his best symphonic work. Inspired in part by his friend Johannes Brahms' new Symphony No....

The first of a few works that Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) wrote for wind band, ORIENT AND OCCIDENT, subtitled "grand march," better resembles a tone poem. Inspired by the world travels he undertoo...

Carl Emil Paul Lincke (1866-1946) è stato compositore e direttore di teatro. Considerato il "padre" dell'operetta berlinese, è noto soprattutto per la sua operetta Frau Luna, anche se il suo Berliner...

Carmen-Quadrille nach Motiven der gleichnamigen Oper von G. Bizet (Carmen quadrille based on motifs from the opera of the same name by G. Bizet), Op. 134, was written by Eduard "Edi" Strauss (1835-191...

The piano trio version of La muse et le poète, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1...

Scritto da Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) nel 1934, questo insieme di variazioni per pianoforte solo e orchestra sul Capriccio n. 24 per violino solo di Niccolò Paganini assomiglia molto a un concert...

Count d'Ogny commissioned Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) to write three symphonies for the Concert de la Loge Olympique, which was then recognized as one of the finest orchestras in Europe. He complet...

Popularly known as the “New World Symphony,” Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 9 in E minor was composed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. A m...

The Chandos Anthems, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...

Il noto inno NIMM VON UNS, HERR, DU TREUER GOTT, anch'esso musicato da J.S. Bach, fu scritto da Martin Moller durante un periodo di pestilenza e fu spesso usato come supplica contro la collera di Dio....

Songs and Dances of Death (Pesni i plyaski smerti), composed in the mid-1870s, is widely considered the finest song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The composer selected four poems penned by h...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) compose il suo Concerto per violoncello in si minore, Op. 104/B. 191 nel 1894. Fu l'ultimo concerto per violoncello solo che il compositore scrisse durante il suo mandato tr...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) compose due serie di Danze slave, ciascuna composta da otto numeri e separata da otto anni. L'idea fu suggerita al compositore dall'editore N. Simrock, in seguito all'introd...

An der Schönen Blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314, written by Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) is one of the most popular works in classical music, and remains well-known in popular cul...

Two series of Slavonic Dances, each of them consisting of eight numbers and separated by eight years, were composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904). The idea was suggested to the composer by the publish...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) compose due serie di Danze slave, ciascuna composta da otto numeri e separata da otto anni. L'idea fu suggerita al compositore dall'editore N. Simrock, in seguito all'introd...

George Butterworth (1885-1916), an English composer whose life was cut short at the Battle of the Somme, wrote two song cycles based on A SHROPSHIRE LAD, a collection of 63 poems by A.E. Housman. Conc...

La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1791 after he had almost finished Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). Commissioned to celebrate...