The study score of Samuel Barber's First Essay For Orchestra Op.12 as first performanced by the NBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Arturo Toscanini New York on 5 November 1938.

Standard US Set (without european suppl. parts)-Barry E. Kopetz' Fantasy On A Theme By Samuel Barber. Score and parts for Orchestra. The basis for this composition is the beautiful legato theme from Barber's 'Overture to the School for Scandal.'

Iri Da Iri by Evis Sammoutis was commissioned by Venice Biennale 48th International Festival of Contemporary Music first performance: 22 October 2004 by Orchestra Sinfonica de Friuli Venezia conducted by Giulia & Christoph Poppen.15'; for orchestra: 2(1st=picc).1(=ca).2(2=bcl).1(=cbn) / 2hn.2tpt.1tenor tromb) / 1pf.1hp.timps.2perc / 10.8.6.5.3

Von Peermusic gibt es Arrangements berühmter Klassiker diverser Genres für Salonorchester in Doppelnummern (Bänden mit 2 Musiktiteln) - ähnlich wie die Doppelnummern für Combo. Die Besetzung - Standard: C-Stimme (Akkordbezifferung und Text); Gitarre/Melodie (Akkordbezifferung und Text); Drums/Melodie (mit Text); 1./2. Violine; 1./3. Stimme Altsax; 2. Stimme Tenorsax; 1./2. Stimme Trompete; 1. Stimme Posaune; Bass; Klavier (Akkordbezifferung und Text) Hier der Doppelband mit Brazil By Night/Samba-Medley und Vive la France/Walzer-Medley (beide: Lakits).

Four Pieces For Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2000-2003. Programme note: In 1983 Hans Abrahamsen wrote the first seven of his Ten Studies for Piano. In the early eighties most composers who wrote for the piano were still making strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the instrument?s romantic past for example treating it as a percussion instrument rather than exploiting its expressive ?singing? potential. The piano?s modern identity as a mechanical rational emotionally cool instrument is reflected in Abrahamsen?s studies 5 7; but in the first four studies Abrahamsen allows the piano to?recollect? its past: especially what the composer calls ?the golden German romantic time full of expression night timelessness dream and the irrational?. Accordingly these first four studies were given German one might specifically say Schumanesque - titles: Traumlied (?Dreamsong?) Sturm (?Storm?) Arabeske (?Arabesque?) and Ende (?End?). While Abrahamsen was in no way dissatisfied with the first four Studies as piano music he soon felt the urge to expand them in both time and space. In their new identity as Four Pieces for Orchestra created between 2000-2003 the original studies nearly doubled in length while the forces required expanded from one soloist to an orchestra of Mahlerian/Straussian dimensions including instruments beloved by the late-romantics: Wagner tubas bass trumpet guitar mandolin and the hammer used so memorably in Mahler?s Sixth Symphony and Alban Berg?s Three Pieces for Orchestra. The results are not so much ?arrangements? of the four piano studies more recompositions. A helpful comparison might be made with certain painters: Cézanne portraying the same mountain from different angles; or Monet obsessively returning to Rouen Cathedral in different lights and weather conditions. Abrahamsen himself remembers an important visit to the Munch Museum in Oslo where he saw how Munch painted the same subject

o.Op. 82 TrV 133- We are grateful to the University of Edinburgh Library Centre for Research Collections for providing us with access to a manuscript of this work. At shelf-mark Mus.M.645 is a set of parts in the hand of an unknown copyist annotated by John Parr (the bassoonist of Sheffield) who also wrote a full score and second copies of the bassoon and bass parts. The score is dated 1930 and the bassoon part 1934. It is here entitled merely 'duet for flute and bassoon with orchestra' and ascribed to R. Strauss.   We are also grateful for advice from Dr Christian Wolf of the Richard-Strauss-Institut in Munich whohave access to a copy of  'der Zweikampf' made by Cl. Schubert but the Richard-Strauss-Archiv in Garmisch-Partenkirchen will not permit them to make a complete copy for us but has permitted sample pages to be copied confirming the identity of the music. They also affirm the considerable doubt as to Richard Strauss being the composer however no other composer has been suggested in his stead.  In the Strauss bibliography a date of composition of 1884 is given when he was twenty years old.   We would also like to acknowledge with thanks the help of Drs Jenny Nex and Lance Whitehead of Edinburgh in deciphering the manuscript and advising on the piano reduction.   In editing the work we have corrected a few evident errors and made the dynamics consistent. There was no given tempo indication in some of the parts but Parr added 'allegro moderato' which is also the tempo indication in the Munich manuscript.  He also suggested the bass pizzicato in most of the polacca but perhaps this was intended only for the double bass should one be present. There are some discrepancies between the Edinburgh score and parts which we have resolved somewhat arbitrarily on musical grounds.  The differences between the Munich and Edinburgh versions are mostly small as far as we can discern; the

Score-Originally scored for Piano solo (GS48199) Griffes' 'Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan' was later expanded into a tone poem for orchestra by the American impressionistic composer. It is based on the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge andis scored for Piano Voice Chamber Ensemble and orchestra. This original version is combined with Frederic Stocks' 1920 revisions.

Jorden Rundt i 80 Dage er en spændende og farverig musical med skuespillere sangere og stort orkester. Historien er Jules Vernes frit bearbejdet af komponist og sangskriver Thomas Bo Borchersen i samarbejde med sanger forfatter og instruktør Tine Olsen. I hæsblæsende fart må Phileas Fogg nå Jorden rundt for at vinde et væddemål men der bliver alligevel tid til at dvæle ved de mange oplevelser og personer som støder til selskabet på vejen. Historien er fortalt i 15 sange og kædet sammen af dialog så hele ensemblet kan folde sig ud i denne udødeligeklassiker. Fra forordet: Hovedformålet med musicalen er at vise bredden i musikskolen og forsøge at skabe nogle nye unikke muligheder for samarbejde mellem lærer og elevgrupper i det nye musikskolemiljø der er opstået efter musikskolesammenlægningerne. Vi mener at der er et stort og stadigt voksende behov for at samle musikskolen i store fælles projekter dels for at forbedre infrastrukturen i musikskolen men også for at få den helt nødvendige kommunikation til samfundet omkring musikskolen. Vi mener der et et stort behov for at få synliggjort arbejdet med talentmassen på musikskolerne og at store kompetent udførte projekter ofte er en mangelvare på mindre og halvstore musikskoler. - Musicalerne egner sig selvfølgelig til at blive opført på alle musikskoler - store som små men er især tænkt som en særlig oplagt mulighed for at få samarbejde imellem musikskolerne igang på tværs af kommunegrænserne. Arrangementenes sværhedsgrad er forsøgt tilpasset det gennemsnitlige elevpræstationsniveau for aldersgruppen 12 til 18 år på musikskolen. Det har været en af topprioriteterne at lave arrangementerne

Invisible Cities for Orchestra by Swedish composer Britta Byström (2013). Programme note: Invisible Cities is an orchestral piece inspired by the Italian writer Italo Calvino's novel 'Le città invisible' (1972). The novel consists of many short poetical descriptions of wondrous cities. This is what the explorer Marco Polo reports to Kublai Khan of what he has seen during his travels. Gradually though Kublai Khan begins to suspect that Marco Polo all the time describes one and the same city but in many different ways: Marco Polo's own hometownVenice.  This was also my musical idea: to present the same motif in many different ways. The piece has eleven movements just as the novel consists of eleven different kinds of cities. Before every new musical 'city' there is a 'walk' – a little piano line which takes the listener from one city to another. This piano line is a quotation from Witold Lutoslawski'sVenetian Games. There are also other music connected to Venice hidden in my piece: the well-known Barcarolle by Offenbach and some fragments from Carnival in Venice. These references are the 'invisible cities' of my piece the material hidden under the music's surface. Marco Polo explains to Kublai Khan: 'To distinguish the other cities' qualities I must speak of a first city that remains implicit. For me it is Venice.'  (c) Britta Byström  Britta Byström’s careful ear for musical qualities such as timbre and resonance has resulted in an idiom that could almost be labeled impressionistic. She began composing already as a teenager and later studied composition at Musikhögskolan in Stockholm with Pär Lindgren and Bent Sørensen.

Concerto giocondo e severo (Cheerful and Serious Concerto) Op. 132 for Orchestra by Vagn Holmobe (1977).   Programme note Concerto giocondo e severo was composed in 1977 and first performed in the following year on  18th April by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra during a vist to Gothenburg with Jorma Panula conducting. This work is scored for a much larger orchestra than the other conertos (including a large percussion section) but the orchestration is relatively transparent. It is only occasionally that everybody is on the pitch at the same time. The concerto is in onemovement but is divided into a succession of different tempi and sections that contrast with each other in character. A fortissimo chord from the whole orchestra starts the the slow somewhat tentative introduction. But another fortissimo outbreak is required before strings and the woodwinds together prononunce the beginning of the first rapid section. Knud Ketting

Orchestral work commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis The Barbican Hall November 1992.Quoting Lindberg: 'After having written a Piano Concerto in 1991preceded by three works for different orchestral effectives (Kinetics Marea and Joy) I felt that I had come to an end with a certain musical expression and also compositional technique. All these works were based upon anextended chaconne principle with chord chains cycling around undergoing constant transformation and being articulated in a very gestural way. The musical paradox and evidently also the challenge was the discrepancy between abrick-like method expressed in a world of gestures (with all difficulties involved in conceiving music out of phrases) aiming at a continuity in terms of progression and development.After the Piano Concerto in the autumn of1991 I strongly felt that I couldn't continue in that direction anymore. I started to work on a project called Corrente for 16 players as a study for the full orchestra version entitled Corrente II.In order to bring theharmonic and rhythmic world closer to each other I abandoned the chaconne principle and based the harmony on different scale aggregates. By combining these scales and by filtering or by enhancing them with additional pitchesbased on more acoustically oriented views of the scales by considering them as partials of virtual fundamentals I was able to work in a rich harmonic world without actually having to do harmonic transformations and progressions.The rhythmic material was based on pattern figures with a rather kaleidoscopic approach of repetition and variation.By combining these pattern figures and scales aggregates I wanted to give the musical expression a 'narrative'sense of streams and directions moving around in different orchestral constellations.Corrente II for symphony orchestra is based on the same material as the piece for chamber orchestra. As the timbral palette and the mass

Incontri for Orchestra (2010) by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. Commissioned by The Danish National Symhony Orchestra / DR. Parts are for hire: hire@ewh.dk Preface / Programme Note INCONTRI is a kind of orchestral prelude presenting some of the orchestra’s timbral possibilities. The timbres of the instrument groups emerge either clear on their ownor in various blends. There are no doublings between the three main groups – winds strings and percussion – each group maintains its own individual character evenduring the encounters; as in a forest where different kinds of birds continuetheirterritorial song without yielding or altering their signals.The joint musical project is not unlike a Baroque concerto grosso not only in theway the form plays the groups off against each other but also in the musical language itself. I have previously written a concerto grosso which I called ”Jungle Baroque” becauseof its savage and wild sounds. The same thing can be said about INCONTRI – bydegrees. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Party 'Happy Birthday'-Veitsla (Party 'Happy Birthday') was composed by Sunleif Rasmussen in 2013. The piece is a 30 years birthday gift to the Faroese Symphony Orchestra. It is dedicated to the conductor of the orchestra for many years Bernharður Wilkinson and the founders of the Orchestra Kanny Sambleben and Magne Synnevåg.