Spartiti difficile per Orchestra sinfonica

Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the oppos...

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...

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...

The Death of Oscar (2012) is a miniature tone poem drawing upon the legend of the bardic poet Ossian and the death of his son Oscar. In the legends of Ossian, Oscar challenged the High King Cairbre to...

17-minute work for full orchestra commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. First performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 1997. The composer comments:'The...

Composta nel 2021 e dedicata al solista Nicola Benedetti, quest'opera è stata scritta come tributo alla memoria del compositore polacco Krzysztof Penderecki, scomparso l'anno precedente e che ha eserc...

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

Questo pezzo emozionante e virtuoso è stato commissionato dal Gruppo Buffet per celebrare il suo 190° anniversario come produttore di strumenti a fiato. È stato eseguito in prima assoluta nel luglio 2...

Questo pezzo emozionante e virtuoso è stato commissionato dal Gruppo Buffet per celebrare il suo 190° anniversario come produttore di strumenti a fiato. È stato eseguito in prima assoluta nel luglio 2...

La "Sonata Vox Gabrieli", commissionata dall'International Trombone Association, è diventata rapidamente un bestseller mondiale fin dalla sua pubblicazione nel 1973. Quest'opera bellissima, altamente...