John Corigliano

John Corigliano's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (The Red Violin) draws upon music he composed for the film of the same name, which won an Academy Award for best film score. The story spans three c...

This string quartet was inspired by a photo of Corigliano's father playing a violin and his uncle playing the guitar. It was commissioned by the Elements String Quartet and premiered in November 2003...

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

This 35-minute work is in five movements which bears a resemblance to the arch-form principales of Bartok's fourth quartet. The quartet is based upon a motto composed of even repetitions of a single t...

This piece for unaccompanied viola solo transforms the gentle arches of Bach's theme into slowly soaring arpeggi of almost unending phrase lengths. Originally written for cello, it was premiered by Yo...

This piece for unaccompanied cello solo transforms the gentle arches of Bach's theme into slowly soaring arpeggi of almost unending phrase lengths. It was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma in Boston in 1997 in me...

Based on themes from The Ghosts of Versialles. Thoroughout the work Phantasmagoria, the ghost floats in and out, binding the 3 sections of the piece together: 1. The world of eternity - 2. The world o...

For flute and orchestra (Piano Reduction). A musical interpretation of the Pied Piper legend first performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with James Galway, soloist, under the direction of Myung-Wh...

For flute and string orchestra (piano reduction). A welcome change from the usual flute writing, one that sets new records for the greatest number of notes played in one minute. John Corigliano captur...

Originally composed in 2011 for Anne Akiko Meyersa and her daughter Natalie, it was later orchestrated for Marin Alsop's 20th season at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and has been transc...

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barbe...

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barbe...

Soprano and Piano In this extremely emotional aria from Corigliano's popular opera, the ghost of Marie Antoinette relives the unbearable memory that forever haunts her: the final moments of agony and...

Duet for Two Sopranos (Or Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano. From John Corigliano's stunning opera, The Ghost of Versailles, with a libretto by William M. Hoffman.

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Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music! This landmark, five-movement string symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall in that ci...

John Corigliano (b. 1938) is an American composer. One of his most enjoyable compositions is The Mannheim Rocket, commissioned by the Mannheim orchestra in the year 2000. It takes inspiration from the...

First performance in 1990 with Stephen Hough, Piano and Daniel Barenboim, Conductor.

The title Gazebo Dances was suggested by the pavilions (often seen on village greens in towns throughout the countryside) where public band concerts are given on summer evenings. The delights of that...

Two Playing Scores Quarter-tone work with eerie effects and dissonances that are both expressive and startling. In three movements: I. Light, II. Shadows, III. Strobe. ca. 12 minutes.

Kaleidoscope was first performed at the festival Of Two World at Spoleto, Italy, 1961.

With Baritone solo. Text by Dylan Thomas.