Ensemble

For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Arias, Interludes and Postlude from the opera The Handmaid's Tale. Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood.

Ole Buck's Fairies for Soprano and Orchestra (1972). The text is a cut-up by the composer after Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies Book.

Love Songs II for Solo Voices and Sinfonietta was composed by Henrik Hellstenius in 2013. Texts by William Shakespeare (Fragments from Sonette 18 and 40) and Henrik Hellstenius. Commissioned by Norlan...

Rock Crystal for 2 Sopranos, Baritone and Orchestra + Soundfiles by Henrik Hellstenius, with text by Adalbert Stifter. This piece is a version of Love Songs II, written for the stage performance: 'The...

Die frühen Sinfonien (H. C. Robbins Landon)

A tour de force for any cellist, Elgar's magnificent Cello Concerto is performed more frequently than any other except that of Dvo?ák. Regarded as an elegy for a lost world, the Cello Concerto was wri...

The individual emotional quality and organic structure of Oration place it high in Bridge's output and indeed in British music of the first half of this century. . .a profound work. . .Music and Lette...

Invocation was composed in 1911 and first performed on May 2nd of that year in the Queen's Hall, London, by May Mukle with the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Landon Ronald. The work received seve...

Premiered at the BBC Proms in 1984, Matthews’ first concerto for cello is an extravagantly coloured collaboration between soloist and orchestra. Though packed with virtuosity, Matthews makes orchestra...

Full Score.

Vc-solo/Fl1/Fl2 (aussi flûte piccolo)/2 Ob/2 Klar/2 Fag/3 Hn/2 Trp/3 Pos/Tb/Pk/Tri/2 V/Va/Vc/KB

Full performance materials available on rental from G. Schirmer.