An arrangement of Rachmaninoff?s famous ?song without words? for chamber orchestra (double woodwind and strings) by conductor and composer José Serebrier. The beautiful melody and stirring harmonies would be a fine addition to a small orchestra?s repertoire. Performance materials available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes.

The music of Igor Stravinsky's Funeral Song op.5 composed by the young composer as an orchestral memorial to his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov disappeared after just one performance in 1909. Following its rediscovery in 2015 and world premiere in St Petersburg last December orchestras around the world have swiftly added Funeral Song into their current seasons.   The Funeral Song score has been reconstructed from the complete set of parts by Dr. Natalia Braginskaya and the St Petersburg Conservatory in collaboration with Stravinsky?s publisher Boosey

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Matinées Musicales Soirées Musicales The Courtly Dances from Gloriana / Format poche / Boosey

Capriccio Studienpartitur - STP - piano and orchestra composer: Stravinsky, Igor Éditeur: Boosey

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra one of the most performed 20th century works regularly featuring in the concert programme series of many leading orchestra across the world.Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra is in five movements arranged in what is termed an ‘arch’ form; the outer movements (first and fifth) are related as are the second and fourth and the third movement functions as the ‘keystone’ of the arch.Available here as part of the Boosey Masterworks series is the full score of Bartok’s popular orchestral work as edited by Malcolm MacDonald.

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1528-Completed in short score in 2006 the composer played the symphony to his son Miko aj on the piano that summer commenting on many details. It fell to Miko aj to complete the orchestration following his father’s death in 2010.The impetus for the work came from the director of the Tansman Festival in ód birthplace of the naturalised French composer Alexandre Tansman. The work’s principal motives are based on letters taken from Tansman’s name. The 38-minute symphony is scored for large orchestra including quadruple woodwind and brass and prominent parts for piano organ and three bass drums.

Concert Suite from the Ballet - Divertissement Flamenco-Gerhard's Alegrias ballet was first performed in 1943 by the Ballet Rambert to a score written for two Pianos. The present concert suite for Orchestra was arranged shortly afterwards and was first performed on 4th April 1944 for a BBC studio recording in London. This is the Hawkes Study Score edition.

Bach's Art Of Fugue represents one of the peaks of the prolific and remarkable composer's career by formulating and defining this quintessential Baroque compositional form. Written in undefined score the music was initially regarded more as an elegant and substantial theoretical achievement that requires a high level of virtuosity to perform at the keyboard. Over the years the set of pieces has been reinterpreted by all manner of instrument groups and ensembles and remains a unique challenge to the advanced Keyboard-instrument performer.This item is the authoritative Hawkes Pocket Score edition.

Ballet-Bernstein’s first composition in the genre Fancy Free composed in 1944 became extremely popular. The story of the ballet is fairly simple and was later reused by Bernstein in On The Town his popular first Broadway musical. The story devised by Jerome Robbins takes place in New York City where three sailors on shore leave meet three girls in a bar who they dance with and end up fighting over. They soon realize they were foolish to let the women become between their friendships.The music is based on a considerable number of popular styles of the day. At the beginning you hear Big Stuff a popular hit Bernstein later recordedas a single and made famous by Billie Holiday. Bernstein’s music is comprised of a fusion of different genres from Latin-American to Popular and Classical to Jazz all of which are footprints in his inimitable style.Available here as part of the Hawkes Pocket Score edition (No.1135) is the Study Score for Bernstein’s popular ballet Fancy Free.

March No. 1-Score and parts for Elgar's March Theme from Pomp and Circumstance arranged by Charles Woodhouse. Hawkes School Series 25.

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 976-Study score for Bernstein's work for full orchestra composed in memory of Andre Kostelanetz.