Partitions pour orchestre symphonique

Julius Weismann, like Richard Strauss or Hans Pfitzner, was one of the composers who set musical standards in their time, but at the same time came to terms with the Nazi regime or actively supported...

Leroy Anderson's melodies have become classic standards the world over. Calvin Custer has taken four of his most popular hits -- 'Blue Tango,' 'Belle of the Ball,' 'The Syncopated Clock' and 'Serenata...

Calvin Custer gives us a medley saluting the master of song, Henry Mancini. The wonderful sounds for large 'pops-style' orchestra include: 'Baby Elephant Walk,' 'Charade,' 'The Pink Panther,' 'Days of...

L'interprétation festive et dramatique de la bannière étoilée par Sean O'Loughlin, d'abord arrangée pour cuivres et percussions, est maintenant magnifiquement écrite pour un orchestre complet. L'arran...

The Mouvements Perpetuels is a short three-movement suite originally composed for solo Piano by the French composer Francis Poulenc, premiered in Paris in December 1918, when Poulenc wasonly19. The su...

Text: St Teresa of Avila, translated by Arthur Symons. Premiered by Kathleen Ferrier in 1948.

Work for Orchestra premiered by BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1961.

Work for Solo Tenor and Orchestra. Text: Pierre de Ronsard. Commissioned by the BBC for the 1963 Promenade Concerts. Premiered by Peter Pears.

This was composed in 1971.

This work for soprano, children's choir, chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. the first performance was given by them in July 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall with the Londo...

This work was commissioned by the BBC (Scotland) and the Saltire Society to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Beethoven. The first performance was by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, 1970, condu...

This is the sacred comedy among Davies' pieces of music-theatre. Brought on by a children's wind band in a 7/8 march, the juggler presents himself at an abbey and is accepted by the abbot, the only si...

The authorship of the six poems used in this song cycle is generally attributed to Petronius Arbiter (died ca AD66), Nero's Arbiter of Elegance and author of the Satyricon, a comic novel with poems in...

Acquainted with Night', is a cycle of six songs, for alto and strings, harp and timpani. The texts are all concerned with different aspects of night. The first song, 'Lullaby' to a poem by Beaumont an...

Psychologists agree that dreaming is essential to our mental well-being. Artists have always been intuitively aware of this, and the above lines are one illustration of this awareness. Composers, as w...

Written for and first performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in December 1986.