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Hawkes Pocket Score 1207. Miniature Score of Bernstein's Candide Overture for Orchestra.

This full-score miniature edition contains a treasury of orchestral works by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, including 'The Moldau' and 'From Bohemian Fields and Groves' from Ma vlast ('My Fatherland'...

This full-score miniature edition contains a treasury of orchestral works by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, including 'The Moldau' and 'From Bohemian Fields and Groves' from Ma vlast ('My Fatherland'...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 2321 - timp - perc(2):SD/tgl/glsp/BD/susp.cym - pno - strings or 1(=picc).1.ca.1.bcl.2 - 2321 - perc(2):timp/BD/(mar)/glsp/susp.cym/SD/tgl/(t.bells) - pno(=cel) -...

It grows, it blossoms, it evolves with as much variety as the images in a kaleidoscope, and like a kaleidoscope it seems to fix the listeners' attention at a central point. . . musical ideas as fresh...

The program included one bona fide masterpiece, written in 1967 by Peter Sculthorpe. . .Sun Music III (Nos. I,II and IV are equally imposing) could have been written only in Australia. The sounds of t...

Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dances The Cornish people have a highly developed sense of humour. Many are sea-faring folk, and it is a land of male voice choirs, brass bands, Methodism, May Days, and Mo...

The work contains some of the most startlingly precise storm music ever written - it seems less evocation than the sound of the thing itself. But there is more to it than that: Eliot's lines suggested...

The wish to compose something for Barry Tuckwell had been somewhere at the back of my mind for almost as long as I can remember. Hence, when I received an invitation form the Suntory Foundation to wri...

Diptych is dedicated to Per Nørgård. Instrumentation: 3(II=picc.III=picc+afl).3(III=ca).3.3(III=cbsn) - 4331 - timp - perc(4): crot/t.bells/3 susp.cym/tam-t/vib/5 tpl.bl/SD/siz.cym/guiro/...

Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes, linked by related short transitions and framed by an arresting, extrovert Allegro energico. Imstrumentation: 3(...

Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): SD/BD/ch.cym/tam-t/3 congas/3 tom-t/bongos/crot/chime/glsp -strings

Instrumentation: 1.afl.2.1.bcl.2 - 2100 - perc(1): vib/glsp/t.bells/2 tam-t - cel - harp - strings (ideally 10.8.6.6.4) Chiaroscuro, the play of light and shade in painting or drawing, isn’t a term th...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).ca(=ob).2.bcl.1 - 1100 - perc(1): glsp/susp.cym/vib/2 gong/tam-t - strings (2.2.2.2.1 or 4.4.4.4.1)

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.ca.3(II=Ebcl.III=bcl).2.cbsn - 4331 - timp -perc(4): crot/metal chimes/lujon/5 tuned gong/glsp/bell tree/sleigh bells/2 siz.cym/handbells/2 springcoils/2 brake drum/vib/susp....

Instrumentation: 0200 – 2000 – strings (min. 65422) I live part of my life in Deal, on the Kent Coast. When I’m there, I usually walk to the beach before breakfast, and it’s always an exhilarating exp...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).afl(=picc).2(II=ca).ca(=ob).2(II=Ebcl).bcl(=cl).cbcl.3(III=cbsn) - 4431 - timp - perc(4): 2 BD/2 conga/bongos/tamb/3 susp.cym/chic.cym/ch.cym/guiro/tam-t/9 tuned gong/bell pl...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2210 - perc(2): timp/4 tom-t/3 susp.cym/sleighbells/ch.cym/tamb/glass chimes/2 stones/mar/steel drum - pno - strings (min. 65432) Commissioned by the Bath Festival, Scherzo Cap...

Maw is a composer who has been at pains to remake connections with the late-romantic tradition, and Odyssey is a convincing reassertion of its continuing relevance, a demonstration that long-range har...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4231 - perc(3): tam-t/whip/3 tom-t/susp.cym/ch.cym/bongos - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2221 - timp - perc(1): susp.cym/gong/BD - harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 – 2200 – timp – strings

Instrumentation: 3(=picc).2.ca.Ebcl.2.bcl.3.cbsn – 4442 – timp(2) – perc(3): SD/tam-t/susp.cym/BD/cyms – strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4231 - timp - perc(1) tam-t/SD/susp.cym - strings