Based on the success of his best-selling warm-ups for strings Michael Allen has teamed up with respected conductor and teacher Don Hanna to bring us this invaluable resource for full orchestra. Similarly this daily regiment isdesigned to prepare the orchestra for rehearsal or performance through a carefully paced set of short examples. Focus on tuning ensemble playing technique phrasing and special needs for strings winds and percussion are alladdressed.

Philip Glass has produced ten symphonies so far the ones immediately preceding this one inspired by sources as diverse as Allen Ginsberg poetry Aboriginal writings and Native American song. Symphony No 8 however has noreferences to non-musical materials and takes as its subject according to Glass ‘the language of music itself’.The three-movement work does not conform to classical symphonic form with an extended twenty-minute first movement a slow passacaglia for the second movement and a short dense theme joined by a counter theme then ending with an extended cadence to complete the work in the third movement. Symphony No 8 was commissioned by the BrucknerOrchester Linz under the direction of Dennis Russell Davis.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as aminimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small andlarge ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

Britta Byström's Der Vogel Der Nacht for Orchestra (2010).Commissioned by Sveriges Radio Berwaldhallen. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk