Partiture per orchestra

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), sempre popolare nelle sale da concerto per i suoi pezzi orchestrali leggeri, trovò un grande alleato musicale nella Boston Pops Orchestra sotto la direzione di Arthur Fiedl...

Un brillante pezzo per quattro clarinetti nello spirito di Bugler's Holiday. Strumentazione: 2+Picc.2.2.2: 3sax(AAT.opt.): 4.3.3.1: Perc(2): Pno(opt): Str (9-8-7-6-5 nel set).

Like most of Leroy Anderson's efforts, "Belle of the Ball" is light, effervescent, and devoid of conflict or disharmony. Anderson looked upon the piece as a modern-day American revival -- or revitaliz...

La "Scottish Suite" di Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) (1954) aveva originariamente quattro movimenti: "The Bluebells of Scotland", "The Campbells Are Coming", "Bonnie Dundee" e "Turn Ye To Me". Mentre dir...

Scritto da Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) nel 1913, questo criptico poema tonale fu eseguito per la prima volta il 27 marzo dello stesso anno dall'Orchestra della Società Filarmonica di Helsinki, sotto la...

Following a jocular remark from his wife that he sometimes seemed like a child, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was inspired to write a work for piano evoking the curiosities and sentiments of childhood....

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) began work on The Music Makers, Op. 69, a work for solo contralto, mixed chorus, and orchestra, in 1903 and completing it in 1912. It sets the entirety of Ode by Arthur O'Shau...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The three-act operetta LA RONDINE (The Swallow) by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was first completed in 1916 and premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on March 27, 1917. It tells the story of Ma...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

Il ciclo di canzoni LES NUITS D'ETE (NOTTI D'ESTATE) è un'ambientazione di sei poesie del vicino e amico del compositore Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Théophile Gautier. Il testo tratta i temi dell'amor...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) composed Songs to Poems by Rueckert (Songs after Rückert; Rückert-Lieder) between 1901 and 1902. They were not conceived of as a cycle, with each song only connected by the p...

Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma) is a four-movement symphonic poem for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. The piece, which depicts pine trees in four locations in Rome...

Tzigane è una composizione rapsodica del compositore francese Maurice Ravel. Fu commissionata e dedicata alla violinista ungherese Jelly d'Arányi, pronipote dell'influente virtuoso del violino Joseph...

Igor Strawinsky's ballet Pulcinella was written for Les Ballets Russes after the great triumph of The Firebird and the great scandal of The Rite of Spring, but it marked a new compositional direction....

Dance Suite, completed at Radvány (northern Hungary) in August 1923, was composed for a festival concert held on November 19, 1923 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the two cities of Buda and Pes...

This symphonic version of Rhapsody in Blue was written by American composer and arranger Tom Myron. It is based on Gershwin's original two piano arrangement of the piece. In this version, both the ori...

L'Arlésienne (La donna di Arles), opera teatrale del 1872, fu adattata da un romanzo del 1868 dello scrittore Alphonse Daudet. Georges Bizet (1838-1875) fu incaricato di scrivere le musiche di scena p...

Nato in Venezuela, ma cresciuto a Parigi, Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) fu attratto fin da giovane dai salotti alla moda, cantando le proprie canzoni al pianoforte. Lì si mescolò a luminari come Mallarme...

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) began composition of A Fugal Overture in 1922, completing the full score in January 1923. Despite its name, the overture is not strictly fugal. It belongs to the era of neo-cl...

Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953) began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera, The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the sum...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

L'ouverture de LA CANZONE DI HIAWATHA fu composta nel 1899 per la rappresentazione del Norwich Triennial Musical Festival di HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST, poi pubblicata separatamente da tutte le tre cant...

Devotion (Ab imo pectore) is the second half of Jean Sibelius' (1865-1957) Two Pieces for Violin or Cello and Orchestra, Op. 77. Completed in 1915, the first performance was held in Helsinki on March...