Sándor Szokolay

This is the second time that I have been asked to pay musical homage to Beethoven: following Riccardo Chailly's request, I incorporated the opening Bb from the Fourth Symphony into an orchestral piece...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, 2 Clt, 2 Cor, 2 Tr, 2 Trb, Timp, Org

Written in 1940, this movie music plays more like a symphony than a soundtrack. Several of the majestic themes from this marvelous score are featured in this truly classic arrangement. Perfect for adv...

Orchestration: Flute, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in Yorkshire, the fourth of fourte...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in Yorkshire, the fourth of fou...

Complete Works Volume 23a. Work for Orchestra edited by Sir Thomas Beecham.

Art d'écho (identical in French pronunciation to the term 'Art deco') was composed in July 1998 at the request of Charles Frey, the artistic director of the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, to whom the wor...

What fascinates me in Schubert's lieder, more even than the unusually creative melodic lines, is the number of piano accompaniment patterns (or Formel in German). These repetitive elements often conve...

Time Stretch (on Gesualdo) takes as its starting point Gesualdo's S'io non miro non moro from Book 5 of the Madrigals. From this short piece for five voices I derived a harmonic tapestry of 130 chords...

By the greatest fluke, in 2007 the two principal European orchestral conducting competitions proposed that I write an original work, which would be a requirement for the candidates. Finding the coinci...

Since I began writing music, the idea of conflict is one of my primary preoccupations. It has fuelled both my fondness for the concerto genre, and for spatialization. Over the last several years, I ha...