Œuvres instrumentales classiques pour Orchestre

This authoritative edition presents full-score reproductions of three of Liszt's best-known symphonic poems. Les Preludes (Symphonic Poem No.3) grew out of the composer's unpublished choral setting of...

Two masterpieces in an attractive, inexpensive volume. Included are Brahms's 1860 revision for full orchestra of Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11, originally composed for winds and strings; and his 1...

Described by the composer as a 'study in gray painting, ' this three-movement work exemplifies the aural impressionism synonymous with Debussy's name. Shaded by his unique orchestral palette, three ev...

Composé pour le célèbre impresario Serge Diaghilev et les Ballets russes, Daphnis et Chloé de Maurice Ravel est tiré d'une ancienne fable grecque. À l'époque, Ravel avait annoncé son intention de comp...

Brahms wrote only two concerti in his lifetime, each one an important staple of the concert repertoire. These masterpieces are featured here in full score in one convenient, affordable volume. Pia...

The 'Scottish, ' 'Italian, ' and 'Reformation' symphonies rank among Mendelssohn's greatest works. All three of these staples of the orchestral repertoire appear here in one convenient volume, repro...

The Magic Flute In Full Score was created at the peak of the Enlightenment, Mozart 's divine and enduring milestone of Opera is both a light-hearted fairy tale and an epic story of the struggle betwee...

With their rich harmonic language and complex polyphony, these works are exemplars of Austro-Germanic Romanticism. Nicknamed 'The Philosopher's Symphony, ' Bruckner's hour-long Sixth Symphony is amon...

Drafted (as a piano duet) in March 1941 for, but not used at, the first production of Paul Bunyan; it was not re-instated in the revival, for which a new short introduction was composed. The work was...

Variations on a Christmas Carol (God rest ye merry, gentlemen) for orchestra. Composed for the BBC programme with the same title which wasbroadcast on Christmas Day 1947. The programme consisted of li...

In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias and Misael. It tel...

Of all the parables in the New Testament none has had quite such a universal and ever-renewed appeal as that of the Prodigal Son. With its unforgettable climax of reward and rejoicing being lavished n...

Commissioned by the BBC for broadcast at the opening concert of the Third Programme, the work was described in the Radio Times as Festival Overture . The work lasts 8 minutes.

In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias and Misael. It tel...

Written during Britten’s years in the USA (1939-1942) this atmospheric processional languished unperformed in a New York library until its discovery in 1976, the year of the composer’s dea...

Summons to Venice - Overture to Venice - First Beach Scene - Sight of Tadzio - 'I Love You' - Pursuit - Second Beach Scene and Death, arranged and compiled by Steuart Bedford

Gustav Mahler, a performing version of the draft for the Tenth Symphony, prepared by Deryck Cooke, in collaboration with Berthold Goldschmidt, Colin Matthews, & David Matthews. In English & German.

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.2(I=Ebcl.II=bcl+asax) or 3(I=Ebcl.III=bcl+asax).1 – 0210 – timp – perc(1): susp.cym/BD+cym/tam-t/TD/SD – pno – strings

Dating from the Autumn of 1828, Schubert's 10th Symphony is arguably the composer's final creative endeavour. Using Schubert's extensive piano sketches - substantially complete for movements two and t...

Britten's Irish Reel was composed in 1936 as title music for a documentary film made by Marion Grierson and Evelyn Spice. Around the Village Green was made for the Travel and Industrial Development As...

Body Mandala was commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2006. The work is influenced by purification rituals in Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and is arranged for a large Orc...

Scored for the same ensemble as Benjamin's Palimpsests (with the addition of a cor anglais), this ingenious transcription of one of the jewels of Baroque organ music succeeds in capturing the spirit a...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(1): glsp/crot 2 harp (2nd ad lib) - cel - strings

Score to Claude Debussy's Les Tierces Alternées (Prelude 5), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2): susp.cym/glsp/3 pairs crot/BD/tam-t - 2 h...

Score to Claude Debussy's Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. (Prelude 6), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/SD/ta...