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The Force Of Hercules, arranged by Sarah Francis and Robin Grant for oboe with piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.

Waltz, composed by Edvard Grieg and arranged by Sarah Francis and Robin Grant for oboe with piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.

Two of Saint-Saens most popular works appear together in this affordable volume. First composed in a song form Danse Macabre was later rewritten as a symphonic poem. It is important to remember that r...

A Simple and effective setting of a poem by Thomas Hardy, mostly in unison with some elementary two-part singing. Ideal for a school choir.

A committed pacifist born into a renowned military family is met with a torrent of disapproval over his beliefs yet desperate to keep the love of his would-be bride, Owen is determined to prove his in...

Drafted (as a piano duet) in March 1941 for, but not used at, the first production of Paul Bunyan; it was not re-instated in the revival, for which a new short introduction was composed. The work was...

Variations on a Christmas Carol (God rest ye merry, gentlemen) for orchestra. Composed for the BBC programme with the same title which wasbroadcast on Christmas Day 1947. The programme consisted of li...

Britten began composing his Quatre chansons francaises in June 1928 and had finished the full score by August of that year, before his 15th birthday. The songs reflect the impact of his lessons with F...

The story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed w...

In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias and Misael. It tel...

Commissioned by the BBC for broadcast at the opening concert of the Third Programme, the work was described in the Radio Times as Festival Overture . The work lasts 8 minutes.

Written during Britten’s years in the USA (1939-1942) this atmospheric processional languished unperformed in a New York library until its discovery in 1976, the year of the composer’s dea...

Instrumentation: 2.1.ca.2.2 - 2100 - timp - strings

Summons to Venice - Overture to Venice - First Beach Scene - Sight of Tadzio - 'I Love You' - Pursuit - Second Beach Scene and Death, arranged and compiled by Steuart Bedford

. . .has an extraordinary bleakness, like cold stone in winter sunlight. The instruments, mainly strings and percussion, are systematically drained of color, yet the final moments offer some of the mo...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.2(I=Ebcl.II=bcl+asax) or 3(I=Ebcl.III=bcl+asax).1 – 0210 – timp – perc(1): susp.cym/BD+cym/tam-t/TD/SD – pno – strings

A dramatic work of considerable substance, from which individual movements may be performed separately as anthems or concert works. The work sets a variety of texts from authors as varied as John Rusk...

Dating from the Autumn of 1828, Schubert's 10th Symphony is arguably the composer's final creative endeavour. Using Schubert's extensive piano sketches - substantially complete for movements two and t...

Britten's Irish Reel was composed in 1936 as title music for a documentary film made by Marion Grierson and Evelyn Spice. Around the Village Green was made for the Travel and Industrial Development As...

Concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza in association with Donald Mitchell and Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2(II=bcl).asax.2 - 4331 - ti...

. . . a concerto of extraordinary beauty, a union of vitality and reflection. . . The concerto is wonderful to listen to, inspired in language and in its palette of instrumental colourings... Geoffrey...

Body Mandala was commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2006. The work is influenced by purification rituals in Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and is arranged for a large Orc...

It already counts as a modern classic...' The Observer (Fiona Maddocks), 6 April 2014 Instrumentation: Duchess (S)/Hotel Manager (B)/Electrician (T)/Maid (S) 3 cl(I in Bb=bcl+ssax+bsax.II in A=bcl+asa...

Thomas Adès's Brahms for baritone and orchestra (2001) is a setting of Alfred Brendel's poem 'Brahms II' in which the malodorous ghost of Brahms stalks a house and plays the piano late at night. Adès...

An instant classic, a piece that will immediately touch and move people'. Sir Simon Rattle on Sophie's Choice, Instrumentation: 3 (III=picc).3 (III=ca).3(III=Ebcl).3(III=cbsn) - 5.3.2.1 - timp - perc...