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La vida breve' is an opera in two acts composed by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. Although the opera is seldom performed today, selections from the opera are frequently performed by orchestras arou...

All four movements of Claude Debussy's charming Petite Suite in one volume: En Bateau, Cortege, Menuet, Ballet. Originally composed as a suite for four-hand piano, it is also well-known in its orchest...

Emile Pessard was professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory, and among his students were Maurice Ravel and Jacques Ibert. Although he composed more than a dozen operas and cantatas during his lif...

The orchestral version of the Suite No. 2 from L'Arlesienne was originally arranged and published in 1879, four years after Bizet's death. The suite consists of four movements: Pastorale, Intermezzo,...

The Moldau' is taken from a collection of six symphonic poems called 'Ma vlast' ('My Homeland'), composed by Bedrich Smetana between 1874 and 1879. The poem takes the listener down the course of the r...

The Valse is the second movement of Antonin Dvorak's 'Serenade for Strings,' composed in 1875. Said to have written the entire Serenade in only 12 days, the piece was premiered in Prague in December o...

An exciting transcription of the Bacchanale from Saint-Saens's opera Samson and Delilah, originally composed in 1877.

Two movements (Minuetto, Carillon) from the orchestral version of the Suite No. 1 from Georges Bizet's incidental music to L'Arlesienne.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer who contributed greatly to the flute repertoire, with his various solos and ensembles for flutes. As is evidenced in his Six Concertos for Fiv...

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer who contributed greatly to the flute repertoire, with his various solos and ensembles for flutes. As is evidenced in his Six Concertos for Fiv...

Charles Gounod composed the 'Petite Symphonie' in 1885 for flutist Paul Taffanel. The original instrumentation is for a double wind quartet (2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons), plus a single f...

Scored for two choirs, each consisting of 3 C Flutes and Alto Flute (or Bass Flute). Gustav Holst originally composed this work in 1900 and dedicated it to the memory of his mother.

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian originally composed incidental music to the play 'Masquerade' in 1941. Of all the material composed, it is best-known today as an orchestral suite consisting of five movements...

Aishe's Dance' is taken from the music written for the ballet 'Gayane' by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian. The ballet was originally produced in Yerevan, Armenia in 1939 under the title 'Happiness,' however,...

Edvard Grieg composed the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play, Peer Gynt, to be premiered along with the play in 1876. The first suite consists of four movements: Morning Mood, Death of Ase,...

Edvard Grieg composed the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play, Peer Gynt, to be premiered along with the play in 1876. The second suite consists of four movements, three of which have been ar...

Czardas is a composition by Italian composer Vittorio Monti, well-known for being a showpiece for violin. It was written in a rhapsodic style, reminiscent of the music of Hungarian gypsies. Here, it h...

The Three Gymnopedies of French composer Erik Satie were originally published in 1888. The first of the set, arranged here for flute ensemble, has become Satie's most well-known composition.

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor is more commonly referred to as the 'Unfinished Symphony.' Unlike most symphonies of that time, the symphony only consists of two movements, of which the And...

Sergei Prokofiev's 'Overture on Hebrew Themes' was originally composed in 1919 for a rather uncommon combination of instruments, a clarinet, string quartet and piano. The reason for this instrumentati...

The Ritual Fire Dance of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla is a movement from the incidental music he composed for the ballet 'El amor brujo.' The dance exists in a many different versions, including a...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his famous Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major in 1785. The second movement, arranged here for flute ensemble, with its simple and dreamlike melody has become one of the...

The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi are among the most recognizable pieces of all classical music. Originally composed as four violin concerti, Vivaldi originally published the works with accompanying...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor in 1788, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. Here, the first movement (Allegro molto) has been...

Little is known about Georg Philipp Telemann's Suite in A Minor. It may date from the first decade of the 18th century, but wasn't even published until 1936, when a general re-discovery of Telemann's...