SKU: HL.14036351
ISBN 9780711986121.
This work for orchestra was commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the BBC Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis in Tokyo, May 1997.
SKU: HL.14008415
UPC: 884088808242. 8.5x11.0x0.261 inches.
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 Edward Harper 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 the harmonium 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 the church, 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 to Easter 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.
SKU: HL.14019657
UPC: 884088490324. 8.5x11.0x0.166 inches.
The original version of this work, scored for chamber orchestra, was written in 1950 in response to a commission from Warsaw Radio. In the following year the composer revised and slightly extended the work and rescored it for symphony orchestra. The first performance was given by the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Grzegorz Fitelberg, in Warsaw in April 1951. The work uses folk melodies from the village of Machow in the region of Rzeszow, east of Cracow. Duration c.11 mins. Full score and orchestral parts available on hire from the publisher.
SKU: HL.14019121
ISBN 9781844492954. 9.0x12.0x0.303 inches.
Commissioned by the first Sibelius Conductor's Competition held in Helsinki in May 1995, as an obligatory piece to be rehearsed by all the competitors, Arena was performed in its totality at the annual Avanti! Chamber Orchestra's festival in Porvoo (Finland). Thematic thinking has never been a main feature in Lindberg's music, but here horizontal lines (one would not yet dare to call them melodies) gain some independence, for example in ornamental figures and in the intense cello solo around the middle of the piece. Arena also reveals some clearly new material - Lindberg has talked about Beethoven-like formal thinking, referring to a passage where the sense of movement seems to accelerate to an extreme so that finally one perceives only a motionless surface. Another new element - which was already used to some extent at the warmly hovering ending of Aura - is the almost romantic sound world and the suspension of the harmonies in the final climax, which can make one think of Mahler and Berg, or Lindberg's grand predecessor and compatriot, Sibelius. This is the Score, published by Chester Music; the duration of the pieces is approximately 16 minutes.
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.14041548
12.0x16.5x0.513 inches.
Kaija Saariaho's Notes on Light was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director James Levine, and given its first performance on 22nd February 2007 at Symphony Hall, Boston, USA, by the cellist Anssi Karttunen,with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Sarastre.
SKU: HL.14047789
8.25x11.75 inches.
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 the Joseph-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 Garcia Lorca.
SKU: HL.14048204
12.0x16.5x0.486 inches. English.
An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day is a work by Hugh Wood that sets the poem by John Donne. For Chorus and Orchestra, the work was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed as part of the 2015 BBC Proms. A full performance lasts around 20 minutes, this is the Full Score. Spiral bound.
SKU: HL.14019667
ISBN 9780711939271. UPC: 884088489540. 12.0x16.5x0.525 inches.
This version of Partita was orchestrated by the composer in 1988 for Anne-Sophie Mutter. The first performance was given in January 1990 by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by the composer. Duration c.16 minutes. Full score and orchestral material on hire from the publishers.
SKU: HL.14014800
ISBN 9781846091223. 9.75x13.5x0.225 inches.
Hans Werner Henze's Sebastian im Traum was commissioned by the Eduard van Beinum Stichting, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft, and the New York Philharmonic, and given its first performance on 22nd December 2005 by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
SKU: HL.14018368
5.75x8.25x0.115 inches.
Work for Orchestra commissioned by the 1973 Three Choirs Festival. Premiered by the CBSO under the baton of the composer.
SKU: HL.14043596
12.0x16.75x0.445 inches.
This is the full score of Aheym For Orchestra , composed by Bryce Dessner , best known as the guitarist of The National, but also an acclaimed composer in his own right. If so desired, this work can be performed with Strings alone: the Wind and Percussion instruments are optional. Composed in 2009 for the Kronos Quartet for their performance in Brooklyn's Prospect Park for the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival, Aheym (meaning 'homeward' in Yiddish) was directly inspired by his parents' migration to Brooklyn. The score in this edition was first performed by the London Sinfonietta at the Southbank Centre in London on the 9th of October 2012. The work lasts around 8 minutes and isfilled with dynamic tempo changes, a mix of staccato and smooth playing and all-round excitement. It's a fantastic piece to play and the genius composition will keep audiences on their toes.
SKU: HL.14021044
ISBN 9780711984813.
Roma, Amor, Labyrinthos for orchestra was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and first performed on 2nd May 2000 at the Barbican Hall, London. The Independent, May 2000: Roma, Amor, Labyrinthus captures the composers recollections of Rome as a student in the late '50s under Goffredo Petrassi, to whom the work is dedicated... [this is] one of Sir Peter's most spectacular scores, evoking the might of the ancient city from a very personal viewpoint. Duration 43 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
SKU: HL.14042639
Commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for the opening of Hoddinott Hall. First performance on 22nd January 2009, at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer.
SKU: HL.14043321
ISBN 9781783055777. UPC: 888680045753. 9.75x13.75 inches.
Nebelheim Und Sonnenland is a fourteen-minute continuous suite for Orchestra of material from Hans Werner Henze's last operatic work, 'Gisela!' (2010).
SKU: KN.8143
UPC: 822795081435.
William Billings' illustrious hymn Chester is scored here in a very playable concert setting that allows for a full sound and interesting lines in all parts. The simple nobility of the melodic line and its strong, solid harmonies are major factors in the enduring popularity of this song. Duration 2:55. Available in SmartMusic.
SKU: HL.14004220
6.0x8.25x0.52 inches.
Work first performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1943.
SKU: HL.244903
8.5x12.0x0.103 inches.
Bryce Dessner's Lachrimae was commissioned by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Scottish Ensemble, and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Composer's Note: Lachrimae is a direct reference to John Dowland's work of the same name. I had played that that piece in school on guitar and decided that I wanted to base something on it. Dowland himself adapted the piece several times into different versions and there's also a Benjamin Britten composition based on the same piece of music, so that was part of my inspiration. When I wrote my work I waslistening to string orchestra music and I think Bartok's Divertimento is the pinnacle of string writing. So the piece is kind of equally inspired by Dowland's Rennaissance Lachrimae and by Bartok's Divertimento.
SKU: HL.14032395
8.5x11.75x0.526 inches.
This work was commissioned by the BBC (Scotland) and the Saltire Society to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Beethoven. The first performance was by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, 1970, conducted by James Loughran.
SKU: HL.50603499
ISBN 9781540095466. UPC: 840126927566.
Hans Werner Henze's Ouverture Zu Einem Theater Was Commissioned By The Deutsche Oper Berlin, With Funding From The Ernst Von SiemensMusikstiftung. The World Premiere Took Place On 20 October 2012 At The Gala Anniversary Concert '100 Years Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin', At Deutsche Oper Berlin With Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin Conducted By Donald Runnicles.
SKU: HL.14037582
Sollemnitas in conceptione immaculata beatae Mariae virginis. Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Text in Latin.
SKU: HL.286453
11.75x16.5x0.481 inches.
The performance was given on 14 January 2010 in Reykjavik, Iceland, by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bernhardur Wilkinson.
SKU: HL.14010856
ISBN 9780711960879. 0.575 inches.
Fuego Fatuo has an interesting history. Manuel De Falla (1876-1946), often regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the 20th century, wanted to write an opera based around themes from Chopin, whomhe greatly admired. The stage work was never finished; however, several attempts have been made to arrange the work for orchestra, most successfully by the Catalan conductor Antoni Ros-Marba.
Despite its history,this orchestral suite is far from being a mere mish-mash of Chopin melodies; it is more of a meditation on Chopin's work in general, with the focus on the harmonic and textural elements which De Falla drew from his work.It forms a fascinating insight into the mind of a great musician.
SKU: HL.14047933
8.0x12.0x0.177 inches.
The Study Score for Simon Holt 's Morpheus Wakes , a concerto for Flute or Alto Flute and Orchestra. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3, this work was first performed at the BBC Proms on 27th July 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. A full performance lasts around 15 minutes. Morpheus Wakes is a Flute concerto in two movements. In the first, the soloist plays the Alto Flute, before switching to Flute for the second.
SKU: HL.14020966
ISBN 9780711960930.
Orchestral work for school orchestra A short tone-poem which will let a school orchestra glow. Characteristically, Davies finds ways to engage and stretch young players while staying within the bounds of what is practical for them. And as so often, the result is a piece in which he thinks youthfully. This is vividly dramatic music. Score. Duration c. 7mins.
SKU: HL.14037585
UPC: 196288024026. 8.5x11.0x0.242 inches.
From an 18,000 verse Hindu text, the Bhagavata Purana composed about AD900, this extract is about the coming of the yearly monsoon rain.
Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchsetra on the occasion of the Orchestra'sCemtennial.
SKU: HL.14043625
12.0x16.75x0.436 inches.
Spiral bound.
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