This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 2nd May 2000 at the Barbican Centre London conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies. Duration c.23 minutes. Peter Maxwell Davies: The hornwriting is extremely virtuoso throughout not least in exploring the full range of the horn from the deepest notes in the bass normally exclusive to an orchestral fourth horn player to the highest most exposed sostenuto of afirst horn soloist presenting here challenges of embouchure and sheer stamina I should think fairly unprecedented.Solo part and piano reduction on sale (CH61758) Conductor's score and orchestral parts available for hire.

Orchestration: 2 Flutes 2 Oboes 2 Clarinets in Bb 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F 2 Trumpets in Bb 3 Trombones Tuba Snare drum Strings (Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Bass)Peter Warlock wrote the Capriol Suite for Piano duet. He also produced a version for string orchestra and both were published in 1926. Two years later in 1928 he made this arrangement for full orchestra. This new edition corrects a few minor errors that were present in the 1928 edition published by Curwen and also shows the trumpets in Bb; they were shown in C originally. The six movements which are based on sixteenth century dance tunes are:- Basse-Danse Pavane Tordion Bransles Pieds-en-l´air Mattachins.

Commissioned to write a piece for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Davies provided a musical General Assembly of his own: a bright overture based on an Australian aboriginal song which gives rise to 'national anthems'of various kinds and instrumental colourings. Finally the 'anthems' are combined 'if not triumphantly' Davies says 'at least in a manner whereby they get along together'.The first performance took place in June 1995 inNottingham. It was given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies.Score (miniature). Duration c. 14mins.

This work written by Maxwell Davies in 1983 for chamber orchestra was commissioned to celebrate the quartercentenary of Edinburgh University. The first performance was given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by EdwardHarper in October 1983. Duration c. 29mins.This work was thought through in outline following a visit to the ruined pre-Reformation church of Hoy in Orkney on a fine Spring afternoon after Maxwell Davies had played theharmonium for the tiny congregation in its large bleak Victorian replacement. The old church was surrounded by the graves of centuries the more recent ones with familiar names largely of people who lived in houses now ruinous crofters fishermen clerics sea-captains. Next to it stood the chief farmhouse the Bu going back to Viking times. He thought of the lives and deaths encompassed there expressed through hundreds of years of music in thechurch and in the big barn of the farm.The plainsongs ‘Dies Irae’ and ‘Victimae Paschali Laudes’ are used throughout the work the first concerning the Day of Judgement from the Mass for the Dead the second particular toEaster Sunday and the Resurrection. These are subject to constant transformation the intervallic contour slowly changes from one into the other and their notes are made to dance through Renaissance astrological ‘magic square’patterns.The orchestra consists of double woodwind two horns two trumpets and strings.

This concert overture is a portrait of the Hoy island postman: a rumbustuous yarn-spinning character to judge by the music.Commissioned by the Scottish Postal Board and dedicated to the Board's Chairman Ian Barr inrecognition of his work on behalf of the St. Magnus festival Orkney. First performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986. Written for full symphony orchestra. Score (miniature). Duration c. 9mins.

This work was commissioned by the City of Darmstadt for the Darmstadt State Theatre. It was first performed in September 1988 at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Written for full orchestra with large percussion section marchingband pop group and electronic vocal quartet. Duration c. 75mins.

Vl2. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Editeur(s) d'origine: Hauschild, Peter/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Composed in homage to William Glock this single movement has something of the character of a slow fugue on a theme deeply imbued with minor thirds. The woodwinds (including bass clarinet in B flat) and strings are considered aspairs in balance with each other and with the piano.Unbroken Circle was first performed in June 1984 during the Bath Festival by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Diego Masson.Score (miniature). Duration c.5mins.

Volume I: 6 pieces (1. Raccontando, 2.Rauschpfeifen, 3. Rejdovák, 4. Register, 5 Réjouissace, 6. Reprisen) c. 12 ½ min Volume II: 5 pieces (1. Reveille/Retraite, 2. Rheinländer, 3. Ritornell I, 4. Ritornell II, 5. Rhapsodie) c. 9 ½ min Both volumes may be played in the same programme but not in succession / Grand Ensemble Contemporain Et Orchestre

Columbine - Polka Mazurka for Orchestra by H.C. Lumbye. Edited by Peter Ettrup Larsen. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk

This convenient playing and study edition marks the first single-volume publication of five great staples of the orchestral repertoire: Jubilee Overture overture to the play Preciosa and overtures to the operas Der Freischütz Euryanthe and Oberon.One of the Romantic school's first composers of note Carl Maria von Weber devised novel conceptions of orchestration and subject matter that helped to lay the foundations for nineteenth-century opera. Marschner Meyerbeer and Wagner were influenced by Weber's works as well as latter-day composers such as Hindemith Mahler Stravinsky and Debussy who remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra derived from thecomposer's scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.Reprint of 'Preciosa' from a Breitkopf and Härtel Leipzig n.d. edition. All others from Overtüren für Orchester von C.M. von Weber C. F. Peters Leipzig n.d.

Late in his career Haydn inspired by the oratorios of Handel turned to composing oratorios himself launching what would become a final brilliant and successful phrase of his extraordinarily rich and productive musical life. The Creation is the most majestic achievement of that phrase a choral masterwork of seamless perfection. This edition in full score is reprinted from the authoritative edition published by C.F.Peters of Leipzig complete with the original German and English texts.

Ce jeu de pratique et de l'édition étude marque la première en un seul volume la publication de cinq agrafes grands du répertoire orchestral: Jubilé Overture, Overture à l'Preciosa jeu, et des ouvertures à des opéras Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, et Obéron.L'un des premiers compositeurs de l'école romantique de la note de Carl Maria von Weber conçu conceptions nouvelles de la matière d'orchestration et sous réserve qui ont contribué à jeter les bases d'opéra du XIXe siècle. Marschner, Meyerbeer et Wagner ont été influencés par les travaux de Weber, ainsi que des derniers jours compositeurs tels que Paul Hindemith, Mahler, Stravinsky et Debussy, qui a remarqué que le son de l'orchestre de Weber dérivé de l'examen par le compositeur de l'âme de chaque instrument .Réimpression de 'Preciosa' à partir d'un Breitkopf et Härtel, Leipzig, sd édition. Tous les autres de Overtüren für Orchester von CM von Weber, C. F. Peters, Leipzig, n.d. / Orchestre