Ensembles

Das Ballett El Amor Brujo (Die verhexte Liebe) wurde 1915 von Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) komponiert und bis 1920 immer wieder überarbeitet, so dass mehrere Versionen entstanden. In dem Ballett, das a...

Musetta's Waltz ist ein recht gewagtes Lied, das Musetta in Puccinis Oper La Bohème singt, um die Aufmerksamkeit eines früheren Liebhabers zu erregen. Diese neu verfügbare Konzertadaption verwendet ke...

George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) loved to read, a fact well-represented by his Don Quixote Suite: Ouverture in G No. 10, TWV 55:G10 (Burlesque de Quichotte) for strings. Introducing his subject wit...

Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892) war ein Kollege und guter Freund Bizets. Nach Bizets Tod komponierte er die noch heute in Carmen verwendeten Rezitative. Zwischen 1880 und 1882 stellte er aus dieser Oper zw...

Originally written as a suite for piano four-hands in 1871, Georges Bizet (1838-1875) orchestrated five of the twelve movements of Jeux d'Enfants in 1880. A precursor to other childhood-themed works b...

Die 1880 geschriebene und am 22. Februar 1881 von der Liverpool Philharmonic Society unter der Leitung des Komponisten mit Joseph Joachim an der Solovioline uraufgeführte SCHOTTISCHE FANTASIE op. 46 i...

Written in 1880 and premiered on February 22, 1881, by the Liverpool Philharmonic Society under the direction of the composer, with Joseph Joachim performing the solo violin, the SCHOTTISCHE FANTASIE...

Habanera, composed for piano in October 1885, explores a folk tune that Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) collected on his five-month trip to Spain. The habanera derives its name from Havana, Cuba, charac...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, L. 86) was composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) in 1894. A symphonic poem based on Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem L’après-midi d’un f...

Hänsel und Gretel, a Märchenspiel (Fairy-tale opera) in three acts, was written by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in 1890-1892, with a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck began to wo...

Hänsel und Gretel, a Märchenspiel (Fairy-tale opera) in three acts, was written by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in 1890-1892, with a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck began to wo...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his stud...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) wrote 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano as a way to incorporate the music of his youth into his compositions, and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2 (1847) is b...

This is the beautiful slow movement from Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA in the original edition and orchestration, including two harps and organ. Instrumentation: 1+Picc.2.2.0: 0.0.0.0: Hp(2): Org: S...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) schrieb dieses Werk für Soloklavier und Orchester unter dem Titel Scherzo in d-Moll 1886 ursprünglich für den Dirigenten und Pianisten Hans von Bülow, der einen großen Einf...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

EUGENE ONEGIN, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin, is Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) best-known opera. The story depicts the life of the titular Onegin, a Russian dandy who does not...

This Mozart-inspired work, completed in January of 1877, was the first composition by Tchaikovsky for cello and orchestra. This version of Variations on a Rococo Theme, heavily edited by Wilhelm Fitze...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

The Cambridge Greek Play produced Aristophane's The Wasps as Trinity College, Cambridge in 1909, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was asked to compose incidental music to accompany the productio...

Der deutsche Komponist Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) ist heute weniger bekannt, war aber zu Lebzeiten ein beliebter und angesehener Komponist. Sein bekanntestes Werk sind die Spanischen Tänze op. 12,...

Sergej Prokofjew (1891-1953) widmete sein CONCERTO für Klavier Nr. 1 in D-Dur, op. 10, seinem Lehrer Nikolai Tscherepnin. Er komponierte es in den Jahren 1911 und 1912 und brachte es am 18. Mai 1912 i...

Der Freischuetz (The Marksman), Op. 77, J.277 has come to be considered the first German Romantic opera. Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) composed Der Freischuetz between 1817 and 1821, based on Johan...