Clara Wieck’s sincerest wish was that her future husband, Robert Schumann, turn his extraordinary genius toward the larger and more challenging task of composing orchestral music. Confiding in her diary in 1839, just one year before her marriage, she explained that “it would be best if he composed for Orchestra: his imagination cannot find sufficient scope in the Piano…” In the years that followed their marriage Robert Schumann continued to devote much of his attention to Piano music, but he also found the time to comply with his beloved Clara’s wish by creating a number of musical pieces composed specifically for Piano and Orchestra. Although Schumann’s genius is most in evidence in his masterful solo Piano compositions and superb lieder, his lively and provocative imagination manifests itself with equal aplomb in the works composed for Piano and Orchestra. The same compelling romantic and lyrical qualities that captivate lovers of Schumann’s Piano music are evident in these compositions. Three of his finest are presented here in full score, including the A Minor Piano Concerto, one of the most popular and frequently performed concertos ever written. All demonstrate his remarkably innovative approach to music, diverting substantially from the classic models of the day, and display his immense creativity as well as his warmth and sensitivity. Included in this collection of Schumann’s compositions for Piano and Orchestra are: Piano Concerto In A minor, Op. 54 (published 1846) Concertstück, Op.92 (Introduction and Allegro appassionato; published 1852) Introduction and Allegro, Op. 134 (published 1855) These three works by one of the greatest masters of romanticism will delight musicians, music lovers and students, as well as devotees of Schumann. Pianists will be especially pleased to have these appealing Schumann works in one convenient edition available at an affordable price.

Presenting a collection of 15 all-time Anderson favorites arranged for string quartet or string orchestra. Complete works, not excerpts, these unique arrangements can be used by school or professional groups as concert pieces or as encores. Contents are: Belle of the Ball * Blue Tango * Fiddle-Faddle * Forgotten Dreams * Horse and Buggy * Jazz Legato * Jazz Pizzicato * Plink Plank Plunk * Sandpaper Ballet * Serenata * Sleigh Ride * The Syncopated Clock * Trumpeter's Lullaby * The Typewriter * The Waltzing Cat.

Description With the premiere in 1908 of Rapsodie Espagnole , Ravel’s first entirely orchestral composition, the French composer achieved renown as a highly original and imaginative composer. In 1911 he recast the Mother Goose Suite , his extremely successful work for piano four-hands as an orchestral work. Based on five fairy tales, among them 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Tom Thumb' and 'Beauty and the Beast', this collection continues to enchant listeners of all ages with its variety of moods. After a decade after its initial appearance as a piano work, Ravel transcribed his evocative Pavane For A Dead Princess for orchestra, now one of his best-known and most frequently performed compositions. These three rich orchestral settings are presented in full score in this authoritative edition. Songlist Mother Goose Suite Pavane For A Dead Princess Rapsodie Espagnole

Description A towering figure among Russian composers of the late 19th century, Rimsky-Korsakov was one of music’s master orchestrators. The 3 works in full score in this collection, Dance of the Buffoons, Capriccio Espagnol, Russian Easter Festival (Overture), display his mastery of orchestration. They are reproduced from early authoritative scores. Songlist Capricio Espagnol Dance Of The Buffoons Russian Easter Festival Overture

Songscape is a timeless collection of 24 songs covering an exciting range of musical styles, from ethnic music, theatre, pop classics and rounds, to Lin Marsh's wonderful original pieces. It is also ideal for bringing confidence to classroom and concert singing, and a must for recently formed choirs.

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Available here in one collection is the full score of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Serenade In C Op. 48 and Suite No. 4 'Mozartiana' Op. 61. Both the Serenade and the suite appear here, faithfully reproduced from authoritative sources./ Répertoire / Orchestre

This collection of 23 holiday favorites will not only motivate beginning string students in the classroom, but will also encourage home chamber music sessions. The flexible format allows the book to be used with any combination of instruments, from a solo player with piano accompaniment to a full string ensemble. Correlated with specific pages in the Strictly Strings method. / Conducteur

Air pour l'orchestre. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. In October of 1997, I received an invitation from New York Philharmonic Music Director Kurt Masur asking me to contribute a musical message for the coming millennium. Maestro Masur's letter read 'My dream would be to have you provide us with a work lasting from 10 to 15 minutes that could both stand on its own or perhaps be combined with musical messages with other composers which we might compile for a full evening's concert.' I welcomed the opportunity to bring one of six unique perspectives to this collective exploration of the meanings of the new millennium, and it is my hope that the Multi-Arts Production Fund will chose to support the New York Philharmonic's 'Messages for the Millennium' project. My Millennium Message, Fraternité, Air for Orchestra, can best be described as a quiet and placid work in which all the instruments of the orchestra are as one ... and sing in praise of harmony and peace. - Hans Werner Henze/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par DUFOURT HUGUES. Contrairement à l'esprit des recherches récentes pour lesquelles la formation orchestrale ne représente qu'un support destiné à amplifier des habitudes d'expression originellement conçues pour l'orchestre de chambre ou un medium occasionnel auquel on transpose des innovations venues pour la plupart de l'électroacoustique, j'ai pour dessein de reprendre et de renouveler le système de l'orchestre. Celui-ci ne se réduit pas pour moi à la neutralité d'une source sonore indifféremment disponible à une diversité de constructions abstraites ou d'esthétiques préconçues. Pour obtenir le plein rendement de l'orchestre, il faut d'abord renoncer au primat trop longtemps maintenu d'une écriture impropre : contrepoint instrumenté, jeux coloristes ou axiomatique appliquée. A cet égard, l'orchestre me paraît aujourd'hui encore un instrument sous-exploité et en retard sur ses possibilités. Son vrai régime, me semble-t-il, s'inscrit dans une tradition d'énergie qu'on ne peut retrouver qu'en la radicalisant. Toute l'expérience accumulée depuis plus de deux siècles et laissée à l'usage doit être explicitée, assumée, formulée et traduire dans un ordre spécifique de contraintes, qui nous donnera de nouvelles prises sur le phénomène sonore. Ecrire pour l'orchestre, c'est faire prévaloir le point de vue de la dynamique, de la totalité et de la synthèse. La virtuosité collective dépend d'une virtuosité d'écriture qui doit être mobilisatrice. J'ai veillé à réduire les facteurs d'inertie en jouant sur les constantes interactions du dispositif instrumental. J'ai recherché une grammaire adaptée à ce matériau explosif, instable ou évoluttif. Aucun des principes d'écritures issus du traitement des hauteurs ne résiste à la lave orchestrale. Mieux vaut renoncer à toutes nos catégories usuelles et prendre le parti d'une formalisation sans catégories, plus conforme à la mobiIité des enjeux et des hiérarchies. Le titre désigne une certaine idée du temps que j'ai voulu traduire à l'orchestre : temps d'imminence, d'angoisse et de fragmentation, temps d'une genèse qui sera aussi conflagration, temps du ravage et de la libération, un temps sans pessimisme qui, par-delà le paradoxe et le paroxysme, affirme sa maîtrise et retrouve ses moyens. Hugues Dufourt / contemporain / Répertoire / Orchestre

The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editorial techniques and presented in their entirety. Drafts, sketches and fragments, in short, everything that has come down to us as being authentically by Schumann and which, in most cases, has been deliberately preserved by him, will be brought together, evaluated as to its importance and documented in some form or other in the edition of the complete works.It is the aim of the edition to reproduce authentic texts which - having corrected scribal, copying and printing errors and eradicated later additions and other textual corruptions - will approach as closely as is possible the intention of the originals.The critical edition will form the basis of accurate performance material for Robert Schumann's work. / Orchestre