Partitions pour orchestre

Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Judith Weir: Much of my non-operatic work for solo voice occupies an area between folk music and cabaret. In 1990 I began a personal project, which is still going...

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts fr...

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels 12th October 2001. Composer's Notes: I have been very familiar with the flute since my earli...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's first large scale orchestral work is this Concerto for saxophone and orchestra ('...auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen...') which dates from 1980-81 when he was undertaking an...

With a libretto written by Judith herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group rathe...

From an 18, 000 verse Hindu text, the Bhagavata Purana composed about AD900, this extract is about the coming of the yearly monsoon rain. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchsetra on the occasion of the...

Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the...

This concert version has been prepared by Donald Mitchell for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone soloists, 1 or 2 speakers, SATB choir and Orchestra. The text has been compiled by R. Ellis Roberts. Th...

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C, it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. S...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Natural History was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was written for the voice of Dawn Upshaw. The first performance was given by these artists, conducted...

Kevin Volans ' Piano Concerto No. 4 was commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with financial assistance from Arts for All and many individuals through BCMG's Sound Investment Scheme. Th...

Danse Infernale from the Firebird Suite is Stravinsky at its best! Challenging but eminently playable, this is truly one of Issac's great arrangements and a Belwin Classic orchestra piece! This title...

La musique de Grieg s'exprime très bien dans cette suite en deux parties pour grand orchestre. Les mélodies sont familières et le bel arrangement de Merle Isaac est un excellent choix pour le concert...

One of the most memorable and beautiful melodies ever written by Tschaikowsky has now been arranged for school groups by Merle Isaac. A medium-advanced work, of course, but well worth the necessary pr...

Tiré de l'opéra le plus réussi de Camille Saint-Saëns, cet arrangement puissant et énergique met à l'épreuve toutes les sections, tout en restant à la portée des orchestres de lycée. Une autre sélecti...

Mozart wrote this symphony in 1768 at the age of 12 dedicating it to the Benedictine monastery of Lambach. The structure of this score follows the rediscovered parts - the autograph has disappeared.

In dem Concerto des auch als Flötist berühmten französischen Komponisten sind klassische Heiterkeit und elegante Virtuosität miteinander verbunden.

« Hail ! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony ! » – ainsi commence le chœur final de l’Ode à sainte Cécile d’Henry Purcell datant de 1692. Cette œuvre est un hymne au pouvoi...

Mêlant cantate et pièce de concert, avec sa Chorfantasie (Fantaisie chorale), Beethoven met en musique un hymne à l'art. Cette oeuvre d'environ 20 minutes est souvent considérée comme précurseur de l'...

So sangen die Parzen, die Schicksalsgöttinnen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie: Von Fluch und Schicksal handelt das Parzenlied in Goethes Versdrama "Iphigenie auf Tauris", das zur Vorlage für Johan...

A sacrilege or a stroke of genius? The composer and music director Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) orchestrated the first movement of the famous 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven (transposed to C mi...

Goethes dramatische Ballade "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" inspirierte Mendelssohn zu einer großartigen und plastischen Darstellung des Konfliktes zwischen einer alten heidnischen Gemeinschaft und den neu...

Sur les deux oratorios tardifs de Joseph Haydn, Die Jahreszeiten (Les Saisons) est d'abord resté dans l'ombre de Die Schöpfung (La Création). Pourtant, les deux oeuvres doivent être considérées comme...