Partitions pour orchestre symphonique

Commisioned by the Corporation of Glasgow for the Glasgow Schools' First Orchestra. Duration c. 15 minutes.

Holst composed this, one of his better-known chamber works, on a visit to a festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1923. The first movement has been described as a dialogue between the two solo instrumen...

A Carol Symphony, Hely-Hutchinson's best-known work, is composed in four movements. The first, Adeste Fideles, is arranged in the form of a Bach Chorale with brass taking the Vocal lines and Strings s...

Scherzi was commissioned by the BBC for the 70th Anniversary concert of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and was first performed at the Barbican by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin,...

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) held numerous appointments at the Royal court and Westminster Abbey, and is considered by many to be the greatest ever English-born composer. His prolific work covered all fi...

A concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Full Score. Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. First performance: Tuesday 4 January 2005, Usher Hall, Edinburgh by Colin Currie (solo...

Purcell Society Volume 31. Full Score.

Dream Song was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the Manchester Mahler Symphony Cycle in 2010. It was commissioned as the opening work in a concert which featured Mahler's 6th Symphony. The première too...

Concerti Großi by Simon Bainbridge was commissioned by the Northern Sinfonia and first performed at The Sage Gateshead by the Northern Sinfonia conducted by Thomas Zehetmair on 4 June 2010.

The Horn Concerto was written in 1971 and was the first of the ten concertos Gregson has composed to date. It is dedicated to the English horn player Ifor James, who died in 2004, and was origina...

I responded to this exciting but rather daunting commission by writing a very lively and I hope very accessible piece, which, I decided before I started composing, should be full of tunes. I wrote it...

Tarik O' Regan's Corsair for amplified Oud and Orchestra. Based on themes from 'Acallam na Senórach' and 'Chaâbi'.