Picnic At Hanging Rock (Utflykt til det okända) for Orchestra by Britta Byström (2010). Programme Note ”What we see and what we seem are but a dream a dream within a dream” – These words opens Peter Wier’s film on Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1967. The story takes place on Valentines Day 1900. A group of school girls go on a picnic at Hanging Rock in Australia and get caught up in a volcanic eruption. Three of the girls disappear without a trace – as if they where swallowed up by the mountain.  Inspiredby Peter Weir’s poetic and many layered film I have composed a tone poem – with the emphasis on poem – or poetry – as opposed to programme music. Disappearance is an important motif. The piece is a series of disappearances and transformations – one after another. At the end you can hear how the sound of the orchestra disappears in a swarm of clanging triangles – a way of picturing the girls disappearing into the mountain.  I have tried to catch several other of the characteristics of the film: The school girls in their white dresses the dangerous yet alluring mountain where the watches mysteriously stop at 12 the spell that makes the girls climb higher and higher and – at the end – the unanswered hesitant question: what really did happen?  Britta Byström   

Muse of the Missouri takes its title from a magnificent fountain located at 8th and Main in Kansas City but as the composer writes the piece is really more about the city and its surroundings. It begins gently with an evocation of the Missouri River and then unfolds as something of a journey through a landscape. Written for Michael Stern and the KC Symphony the work employs full orchestra with banjo.

This is the study score for Simon Holt's An Icicle Of Moon a work for Orchestra. The piece was commissioned by Bamberger Symphoniker and its first performance was on 31st October 2014 at theJoseph-Keilberth-Saal Bamberg. A full performance of the work lasts around 6 1/2 minutes. The title of this work is taken from a phrase from a poem by Federico Garc a Lorca.

Suite for Orchestra-Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne'Fauré wrote ?Pelléas et Mélisande? in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck?s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard.In December 1912 the four-movement version of ?Pelléas et Mélisande? was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré?s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements.Bärenreiter?s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite ?Pelléas et Mélisande? Op.80 is based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works? Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016.First Urtext edition Based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works?Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

Suite for Orchestra-Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne'Fauré wrote ?Pelléas et Mélisande? in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck?s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard.In December 1912 the four-movement version of ?Pelléas et Mélisande? was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré?s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements.Bärenreiter?s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite ?Pelléas et Mélisande? Op.80 is based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works? Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016.First Urtext edition Based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works?Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

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.

Suite for Orchestra-Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne'Fauré wrote ?Pelléas et Mélisande? in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck?s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard.In December 1912 the four-movement version of ?Pelléas et Mélisande? was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré?s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements.Bärenreiter?s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite ?Pelléas et Mélisande? Op.80 is based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works? Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016.First Urtext edition Based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works?Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

A blockbuster film with a classic action character has taken over the entertainment scene breaking box office records everywhere. Film composer Danny Elfman's dramatic score has plenty of excitement for your orchestra with thisimpressive medley of themes from John Wasson. This is action film music at its very best for orchestras who like to program cutting edge music.

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. “In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again”. Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No. 3 in C minor op. 78, dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. Like Beethoven’s Ninth, this so-called “Organ Symphony” was commissioned by the Philharmonic Society in London, where itreceived its premiere on 19 May 1886. In this first scholarly-critical edition of the symphony, a great many inconsistencies and mistakes inherent in the previously used edition have been unveiled and corrected. The edition of Symphony No. 3 marks the launch of a large-scale project: the publication of “Camille Saint-Saëns - Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works”. This performing Urtext edition is based on volume BA 10303 from that series. - First scholarly-critical edition of this famous symphony based on “Camille Saint-Saëns – Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works”- Now with separate parts for all winds- Orchestral parts in a large format (25. 5 cm x 32. 5 cm) ; In this work I gave everything I had to give. [… ] What I did here I will never do again. Camille Saint-Saë ns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78, dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. Like Beethoven's Ninth, this so-called ; Organ Symphony was commissioned by the Philharmonic Society in London, where it received its premiere on 19 May 1886. In this first scholarly-critical edition of the symphony, a great many inconsistencies and mistakes inherent in the previously used edition have been unveiled and corrected. The edition of Symphony No. 3 marksthe launch of a large-scale project: the publication of Camille Saint-Saë ns - Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works. This performing Urtext edition is based on volume BA 10303 from that series. First scholarly-critical edition of this famous symphony based on Camille Saint-Saë ns & Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works Now with separate parts for all winds Orchestral parts in a large format (25. 5 cm x 32. 5 cm) / Niveau : 5 / Répertoire / Orchestre

For Orchestra With Solo Clarinet In B-Flat-Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie is one of two concertante works completed premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated it in the summer of 1911. While transferring the clarinet part from the already published version for clarinet and piano he made a few subtle changes particularly in m. 201 which has been a bone of contention among clarinettists for over a century.The present scholarly-critical publication is the first Urtext edition of the orchestral version. It draws on every known source and takes into account a previously ignored source that shedsnew light on the piece.First Urtext edition of the orchestral versionFirst scholarly-critical edition of a pioneering work for clarinetTrilingual Foreword (Eng/Fr/Ger) with Critical Commentary (Eng)

For Orchestra With Solo Clarinet In B-Flat-Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie is one of two concertante works completed premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated it in the summer of 1911. While transferring the clarinet part from the already published version for clarinet and piano he made a few subtle changes particularly in m. 201 which has been a bone of contention among clarinettists for over a century.The present scholarly-critical publication is the first Urtext edition of the orchestral version. It draws on every known source and takes into account a previously ignored source that shedsnew light on the piece.First Urtext edition of the orchestral versionFirst scholarly-critical edition of a pioneering work for clarinetTrilingual Foreword (Eng/Fr/Ger) with Critical Commentary (Eng)

Invisible Cities for Orchestra by Swedish composer Britta Byström (2013). Programme note: Invisible Cities is an orchestral piece inspired by the Italian writer Italo Calvino's novel 'Le città invisible' (1972). The novel consists of many short poetical descriptions of wondrous cities. This is what the explorer Marco Polo reports to Kublai Khan of what he has seen during his travels. Gradually though Kublai Khan begins to suspect that Marco Polo all the time describes one and the same city but in many different ways: Marco Polo's own hometownVenice.  This was also my musical idea: to present the same motif in many different ways. The piece has eleven movements just as the novel consists of eleven different kinds of cities. Before every new musical 'city' there is a 'walk' – a little piano line which takes the listener from one city to another. This piano line is a quotation from Witold Lutoslawski'sVenetian Games. There are also other music connected to Venice hidden in my piece: the well-known Barcarolle by Offenbach and some fragments from Carnival in Venice. These references are the 'invisible cities' of my piece the material hidden under the music's surface. Marco Polo explains to Kublai Khan: 'To distinguish the other cities' qualities I must speak of a first city that remains implicit. For me it is Venice.'  (c) Britta Byström  Britta Byström’s careful ear for musical qualities such as timbre and resonance has resulted in an idiom that could almost be labeled impressionistic. She began composing already as a teenager and later studied composition at Musikhögskolan in Stockholm with Pär Lindgren and Bent Sørensen.

“In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again”. Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No.3 in C minor Op.78 dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. Like Beethoven’s Ninth this so-called “Organ Symphony” was commissioned by the Philharmonic Society in London where it received its premiere on 19 May 1886. In this first scholarly-critical edition of the symphony a great many inconsistencies and mistakes inherent in the previously used edition have been unveiled and corrected. The edition of Symphony No.3 marksthe launch of a large-scale project: the publication of Camille Saint-Saëns - Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works. This performing Urtext edition is based on volume BA 10303 from that series. First scholarly-critical edition of this famous symphony based on Camille Saint-Saëns – Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works Now with separate parts for all winds Orchestral parts in a large format (25.5 cm x 32.5 cm)

“In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again”. Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No.3 in C minor Op.78 dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. Like Beethoven’s Ninth this so-called “Organ Symphony” was commissioned by the Philharmonic Society in London where it received its premiere on 19 May 1886. In this first scholarly-critical edition of the symphony a great many inconsistencies and mistakes inherent in the previously used edition have been unveiled and corrected. The edition of Symphony No.3 marksthe launch of a large-scale project: the publication of Camille Saint-Saëns - Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works. This performing Urtext edition is based on volume BA 10303 from that series. First scholarly-critical edition of this famous symphony based on Camille Saint-Saëns – Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works Now with separate parts for all winds Orchestral parts in a large format (25.5 cm x 32.5 cm)

“In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again”. Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No.3 in C minor Op.78 dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. Like Beethoven’s Ninth this so-called “Organ Symphony” was commissioned by the Philharmonic Society in London where it received its premiere on 19 May 1886. In this first scholarly-critical edition of the symphony a great many inconsistencies and mistakes inherent in the previously used edition have been unveiled and corrected. The edition of Symphony No.3 marksthe launch of a large-scale project: the publication of Camille Saint-Saëns - Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works. This performing Urtext edition is based on volume BA 10303 from that series. First scholarly-critical edition of this famous symphony based on Camille Saint-Saëns – Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works Now with separate parts for all winds Orchestral parts in a large format (25.5 cm x 32.5 cm)