Benet Casablancas was inspired by a passage of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? and its further interpretation by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa in order to name one of his key works Darkness Visible.The versatile use of the Orchestra as well as the great timbral and textural differentiation may prevail as structure to this work. Moreover the way Benet Casablancas formulates the harmonic thought and its involvement in the development of his discourse seem to be a more crucial characteristic of Darkness Visible.This work deepens into the exploration of the unfathomable mystery of the night.It is conceived as a nocturne of big proportions that goes near quiet and rarefied atmospheres but is punctually disturbed by more agitated passages suddenly illuminated by gleams of light.

Romance in F major for Violoncello and Orchestra-Just a few months after completing his Cello Sonata op. 6 Strauss composed another work for this instrument: a Romance for cello and orchestra which remained unpublished during his lifetime. According to the autograph manuscript the composition was finished on June 27 1883 and Strauss also prepared the piano reduction himself. The Romance is regarded as one of Strauss??? most mature youthful works though it was long overshadowed by the cello sonata despite several quite successful performances given by the then-famous principal cellist of the Munich Court Orchestra Hanu? Wihan. Only since the posthumous first edition of 1986 has the music world been rediscoveringthis striking work which now also appears in a Henle Urtext edition.

Orchestration-Here is one of the most recorded octavos of all time. This beloved standard is now available with a brilliant orchestration by Brant Adams. Every choir needs to rediscover the timeless beauty of a modern carol that has become partof the Christmas vocabulary of millions around the world. A true classic brought to you by Shawnee Press! Available separately: SATB (opt. snare drums and finger cymbals); SSA (opt. snare drums and finger cymbals); TTBB (opt.snare drums and finger cymbals); SAB (opt. snare drums and finger cymbals); SA (opt. snare drums and finger cymbals); Brass and Timpani parts; Orchestration Score and Parts; StudioTrax CD.

Ivan March of Gramophone says '. . .a bleak unease in the unrelenting energy of the first movement which becomes even more discomforting in the desolate start to the Lento. This leads to a forlorn suggestion of a funeral march which then ironically quickens in pace but is suddenly cut down; the drum strokes become menacingly powerful and the despairing mood of the movement's opening returns. . . and grips the listener in the music's pessimism. . .'This is a Study Score of Arnold’s Symphony No.6 Op.95.

Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Rheinberger's concert overtures are completely beholden to the tradition of the genre established at least since the 1820s. The spread of this genre was favored in equal measure by the growth of bourgeois musical culture and the overwhelming model of Beethoven's nine symphonies, which sowed a certain perplexity and discouragement among composers of the next generation and led them to turn increasingly to the smaller single-movement genre in their orchestral music. Soon a generic distinction arose between two types of overture. One was the autonomous overture, whose character results from its specific introductory function. Rheinberger's Academic Overture follows in thissame line of tradition. The other type was the overture with subject-matter, in which the romantic inclination to recreate extra-musical material in music found an expecially fruitful field of exploration. Having originated as the opening item of an opera or play, the overture had, after all, long been accustomed to accommodating the contents of the work that followed. The concert overture on an extra-musical subject is in turn associated in particular with the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Rheinberger too, closely modeled his opp. 11 and 110 on Mendelssohn's overtures./ Répertoire / Orchestre