Hawkes Pocket Scores

HPS 682 Instrumentation: Piano, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Clarinet in A, Bassoon and Horn in F.

HPS 1121

HPS 723 Corrected Edition (2002)

Composer's note:'Quartet', when mentioned in the context of concert music, is generally assumed to mean 'string quartet'. In my case, the quartet hat has played a central role in many of my pieces (be...

Composer's note:'Pulse, for winds, strings, piano and electric bass, was completed in 2015 and was, in part, a reaction to my Quartet of 2013 in which I changed keys more frequently than in any previo...

Scored for horn and chamber orchestra Campana in Aria was composed in 1998 to mark the 40th birthday of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Salonen conducted the first performance; his musical career began as a horn p...

This work was composed in 2017-18 and first performed on 20 September 2019 at Milton Court, Barbican, London, by Allan Clayton (tenor) with the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Gourlay. This 22 m...

Neben den Studienpartituren der Reihe The Masterworks Library, in der die ersten beiden Klavierkonzerte Rachmaninows in einem einzigen Band erschienen sind (BH6401237), sind nun beide Konzerte auch al...

HPS 81

Composée en 2005 à la demande du BBC Symphony Orchestra, du Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, du Symphony Australia et du Sydney Symphony Orchestra, cette œuvre a été créée cette année-là au Barbica...

Unsuk Chin komponierte ihr Violinkonzert 2001 als ein Auftragswerk des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters in Berlin, bei dem sie Composer in Residence war. Die Uraufführung erfolgte im Januar 2002 in Berl...

Dernier apport à la série Hawkes Pocket Score, cette oeuvre a été commissionnée par ROCHE pour le Festival de Lucerne 2004 comme un pendant de The Shadow of Night ; elle doit son titre au texte de Joh...

A Charm of Lullabies ' a été écrit en décembre 1947 pour la mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Vivement intéressé à lui fournir une (oEuvre pour ses programmes de récitals, Britten fut aidé dans le choix des...

Neben den Studienpartituren der Reihe The Masterworks Library, in der die ersten beiden Klavierkonzerte Rachmaninows in einem einzigen Band erschienen sind (BH 6401237), sind nun beide Konzerte auch a...

Rachmaninov's Second Symphony was written ten years after his First Symphony, the failure of which had caused a serious creative crisis. He composed it while staying in Dresden and conducted the world...

Described with terms like 'sombre' or 'melancholy', Symphony No. 3, which was to remain the last by Rachmaninov, was written in the years 1935/38. In addition to the edition in the Masterworks Library...

Apart from the four piano concertos, Rachmaninov's 'Paganini Variations' are considered to be among his major works for piano and orchestra. One theme from the last of Paganini's '24 Capricci for Viol...

Rachmaninoff's set of variations, originally composed in 1931 for piano solo, are here arranged by the Rumanian conductor Corneliu Dumbraveanu for chamber orchestra. This arrangement has been programm...

This work was commissioned by the Canary Islands Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was composed in 2009 and first performed on 21 January 2010 at Audit...

Speranza ist wohl bislang Turnages bedeutendstes Orchesterwerk und kommt der Form einer Symphonie wohl so nahe, wie keine andere seiner Kompositionen. Die vier Sätze sind überschrieben mit dem arabisc...

These ten Rachmaninoff songs, transcribed in 1963 for voice and orchestra by Vladimir Jurowski (senior), were revived in Sweden in 2011 conducted by his son Michail, and songs from the collection have...

Il s'agit de l'une des pièces de concert tirées par Britten de son opéra Gloriana, composé en 1953 pour le couronnement de la reine Elisabeth II- une (oEuvre à laquelle il ne fut rendu justice que dan...

30-minute suite for orchestra with female chorus from Khachaturian's celebrated ballet, Spartacus (1955). Scene 9 presents the culmination of the drama, to music strongly reminiscent of Khachaturian’s...