SKU: HL.49019910

ISBN 9790220134395. UPC: 888680089528. 8.25x11.75x0.25 inches.

My Concerto for Orchestra (2007) is a twenty-minute work in which different sections of the orchestra, as well as individual solos and duos from within the orchestra, are highlighted as the music unfolds. The work continues my interest in two-movement forms that began with my Cello Concerto (1991), and was later developed in Sortilege (1996) and Symphony (Broken Consort) (2004). In these works, and in the Concerto for Orchestra, each movement is given equal weight and importance with the second developing earlier material and taking it in new directions.The two-movement form of the Concerto for Orchestra derives from a symphonic sonata structure, reshaping the traditional four-movement form and combining this with aspects of sonata form, a tradition that goes back to Liszt, Schoenberg and Sibelius:1st movement (i) exposition of ideas - dramatic and sudden (ii) scherzo and development 1 - resolute2nd movement (iii) adagio - calm and unhurried (iv) development 2 with recapitulation - intense and energeticThe Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned by the Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheatre-Orchesters Mannheim with the support of Die Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg for its first two performances on 31st March and 1st April 2008 conducted by Friedemann Layer. The score is dedicated in friendship and admiration to Ronald Zollman.John Casken

3(3.pic).2.ca.2(2.Ebcl).bcl.3(3.cbsn)-4.3(1.Dtpt).2.btbn.1-timp.3perc(crot, vib, tub bells, sizz cym, Chinese cym, h.h, Swiss cow-bell, gong, horizontal gong, 2tam-t, tamb, bng, s.d, 5tom-t, b.d, clav, casts, marac, 5tempbl, wdbl, cabaca, vibraslap)-hp-str.

SKU: HL.244904

8.25x12.0x0.508 inches.

Quilting, co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is my first stand alone work for orchestraand is loosely inspired by the American tradition of quilt making. I composed Quilting while living most of last year in Paris.During my time there, I thought a lot about what it means to compose symphonic music as a young American in the 21st century, when so many of the many masterworks which are programmed year in and out by orchestras across the country are European. I considered which artistic traditions defined the American 19th-century. I began to think of the American crafts-tradition of quilting as a foilto the high-art tradition of European orchestral composition. As the score for my new work began to take shape, I started thinking about the manuscript itself as an object, its vertical and horizontal planes create a kind of patterned geometry of their own. Visually the way a musical score is woven together like patchwork brought to mind quilts and the great American tradition of quilting. I imagined about how conducting an orchestra can feellike stitching a piece together, or sewing together a large number of musical ideas and musicians into a coherent and transcendent whole. Quilting was an integral part of American vernacular in the 18th and 19th centuries, the African-American quilting tradition is especially fascinating, and the quilts tell the stories of the women and communities who made them. The names of the quilt patterns themselves can have their own sense of narrative: 'jacobs ladder', 'drunkards path', 'solomon's puzzle', and (my favorite for its relevance to this piece) 'the road to California. - Bryce Dessner.

SKU: HL.49018854

ISBN 9790220132384. UPC: 884088675011. 8.25x11.75x0.304 inches.

No. 37b is a suite of four short pieces for orchestra. Like many of the composer's works the subject matter revolves around death and after life. Featuring some of the composer's most chaotic and frenzied mixes of musical ideas this new score is essential study material for aspiring conductors and composers.

SKU: HL.49002104

ISBN 9790001022521. UPC: 884088270322. 8.5x11.75x0.082 inches.

String orchestra (viola also solo), flutes and oboes.

SKU: HL.49019329

ISBN 9790220133732. UPC: 884088945831. 8.25x11.75x0.24 inches.

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll fur Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow latitude for own variations and developments. The tempo increases, texture and sound are getting denser. Against the background of the original work by Mozart, Goehr draws a musical self-portrait in a subtly differentiated instrumentation, based on his own understanding.

SKU: UT.XXS-36A

ISBN 9790215308718. 8.26 x 11.69 inches.

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SKU: HL.49018927

ISBN 9790001174268.

Despite the Concertante Overture being almost 60 years old, the piece nevertheless captures listeners through its young and carefree freshness. The string orchestra is joined by solo winds and percussion. Hummel's music is so colourful, vivid and powerful that the listener can immediately imagine how the curtain rises upon a play while this music is played.The differentiated score, with its chamber music layout, can be mastered by good amateur ensembles and music students.

SKU: UT.XXS-26A

ISBN 9790215306653. 8.26 x 11.69 inches.

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[Pic.2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - Timp.3Perc - Hp[Pf] - Str].

SKU: HL.49001924

ISBN 9790001024907. UPC: 884088107512.

Henze composed these dances, which can be scored for various instruments, for the orchestra of the conservatory of Deutschlandsberg (Austria). These compositions are based on an anonymous Morissa (Spanish designation for a dance form probably introduced by crusaders) from the English Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

SKU: HL.49045052

ISBN 9790220136061. UPC: 841886025851. 8.5x11.75x0.111 inches.

The title is taken from Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa, a fifty-nine page poem which took him fifteen years to write.