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Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

Discover a brilliant gem of Neoclassicism: The "Concerto in E flat" (widely known as "Dumbarton Oaks") for chamber orchestra captivates listeners with its vibrant rhythmic vitality, contrapuntal sophi...

Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette (B), Fagott, Horn, Trompete, Posaune und Kontrabass - Studienpartitur

Flöte, 2 Klarinetten (2. auch Bass-Klarinette), 2 Trompeten (B), Tuba, Schlagzeug (1 Spieler), 2 Violinen, Viola und Kontrabass

Flöte, Englisch Horn, Klarinette, Horn, Harfe, Viola, Bass

'I wrote Idées fixes, subtitled Sonata for 13, in the Spring of 1997. The composition is in one continuous movement and is symmetrical in plan. The title refers to three basic motifs which pervade the...

Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra's string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in an enigmatic, and un-published, 13 bar musical theme by Rich...

Feldman's was a music shop in London in the early 20th century.They sold collections of popular music for playing at home, and some of these were called 'Feldman's Sixpenny Editions'. Collections like...

The Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood was probably written in the 8th Century and is the earliest dream-vision poem in Old English. A fragment of the poem from the section that describes the cruc...

Written in 2010 for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wigglesworth's nine-minute work explores the idea of perpetuum mobile (continuous movement) in seven connected, miniature inventions. A regular pu...

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which...

I wanted to write a companion piece for Tiger Dancing, which was written for the choreographer Henri Oguike and his company. Although Eternity's Sunrise was written for the concert hall rather than th...

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The comm...

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of...