Charles Scharrès

I Got a Song! is a new work by composer Colin Lett set in the style of a traditional spiritual. This is an incredibly fun composition that uses many different arranging techniqes for more advanced cho...

This Easter celebration serves well as an introit for Resurrection Sunday (it's 24 measures). With optional trumpet, it is sure to heighten the spirit of the congregation as it proclaims the great tri...

From the end of Act 2 from Borodin's opera Prince Igor, which remained unfinished at the time of the composer's death in 1887, this most famous version of the Polovtsian Dances (or Polevetsian Dances)...

Originally intended for solo violin and orchestra, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) later determined that the five Spanish folk melodies used in each of the movements of his Capriccio Espagnol woul...

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

The Three-Cornered Hat is a two act ballet by Manuel de Falla that was commissioned by famed ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and premiered in 1919. Incorporating Spanish dance rather than classical...

Sergej Prokofjew begann die Arbeit an der Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur op. 25 im Jahr 1916, schrieb den größten Teil jedoch 1917 und vollendete das Werk am 10. September 1917. Die Sinfonie wurde am 21. April...

Sergej Prokofjew begann die Arbeit an der Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur op. 25 im Jahr 1916, schrieb den größten Teil jedoch 1917 und vollendete das Werk am 10. September 1917. Die Sinfonie wurde am 21. April...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) composed Nocturnes, L. 91 (also Trois Nocturnes) between 1897 and 1899, although some have speculated that work began as early as 1892 under the title Trois Scènes au Crépus...