Partitions pour orchestre

Un brillant morceau pour quatre clarinettes dans l'esprit de Bugler's Holiday. Instrumentation : 2+Picc.2.2.2 : 3sax(AAT.opt.) : 4.3.3.1 : Perc(2) : Pno(opt) : Str (9-8-7-6-5 dans le set).

La "Scottish Suite" (1954) de Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) comportait à l'origine quatre mouvements : "The Bluebells of Scotland", "The Campbells Are Coming", "Bonnie Dundee" et "Turn Ye To Me". Bien qu...

Écrit par Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) en 1913, ce poème cryptique a été créé le 27 mars de la même année par l'Orchestre de la Société philharmonique d'Helsinki, sous la direction du compositeur. À la s...

Following a jocular remark from his wife that he sometimes seemed like a child, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was inspired to write a work for piano evoking the curiosities and sentiments of childhood....

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) began work on The Music Makers, Op. 69, a work for solo contralto, mixed chorus, and orchestra, in 1903 and completing it in 1912. It sets the entirety of Ode by Arthur O'Shau...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The three-act operetta LA RONDINE (The Swallow) by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was first completed in 1916 and premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on March 27, 1917. It tells the story of Ma...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

Le cycle de chansons LES NUITS D'ETE est une mise en musique de six poèmes du voisin et ami du compositeur Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Théophile Gautier. Le texte aborde les thèmes de l'amour sous tou...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) composed Songs to Poems by Rueckert (Songs after Rückert; Rückert-Lieder) between 1901 and 1902. They were not conceived of as a cycle, with each song only connected by the p...

Tzigane est une composition rhapsodique du compositeur français Maurice Ravel. Elle a été commandée et dédiée à la violoniste hongroise Jelly d'Arányi, petite-nièce de l'influent violoniste virtuose J...

The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world’s most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 red...

Igor Strawinsky's ballet Pulcinella was written for Les Ballets Russes after the great triumph of The Firebird and the great scandal of The Rite of Spring, but it marked a new compositional direction....

Dance Suite, completed at Radvány (northern Hungary) in August 1923, was composed for a festival concert held on November 19, 1923 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the two cities of Buda and Pes...

This symphonic version of Rhapsody in Blue was written by American composer and arranger Tom Myron. It is based on Gershwin's original two piano arrangement of the piece. In this version, both the ori...

L'Arlésienne, pièce de théâtre jouée en 1872, est une adaptation d'un roman de 1868 de l'écrivain Alphonse Daudet. Georges Bizet (1838-1875) a été chargé d'écrire la musique de scène pour la pièce et...

Ferde Grofe's (1892-1972) Mississippi Suite depicts scenes along a journey down the Mississippi River, from its headwaters of Minnesota down to New Orleans. The work was composed in 1926 and first per...

Né au Venezuela, mais élevé à Paris, Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) est très tôt attiré par les salons à la mode, où il chante ses propres chansons au piano. Il y côtoie des personnalités telles que Mallar...

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) began composition of A Fugal Overture in 1922, completing the full score in January 1923. Despite its name, the overture is not strictly fugal. It belongs to the era of neo-cl...

Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953) began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera, The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the sum...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

L'ouverture de THE SONG OF HIAWATHA a été composée en 1899 pour la représentation de HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST au Norwich Triennial Musical Festival, puis publiée séparément des trois cantates d'Hiawat...

Devotion (Ab imo pectore) is the second half of Jean Sibelius' (1865-1957) Two Pieces for Violin or Cello and Orchestra, Op. 77. Completed in 1915, the first performance was held in Helsinki on March...

Béla Bartók's (1881-1945) Four Orchestra Pieces, Op. 12 premiered in January 1922 in Budapest, but did not become one of Bartók's best-known works until its popularity was revived by Pierre Boulez in...