Luigi Dallapiccola Noten für Orchester

Sables returns to certain preoccupations addressed in Altitude 8000, and takes them further: an absence of punctual events (no percussive sounds), extreme continuity (no silence, aside from the beginn...

Contes cruels for two electric guitars and orchestra is not a double concerto per se: the guitars are stealthy intruders within the orchestra and give the cruel tales an unusual colour. The second gui...

This Symphony, McCabe's fourth, was commissioned by the BBC as part of an exchange scheme with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The first performance was given by the Melbourne Symphony Orches...

The Pocahontas Ballet Suite is one of Carter's early works, and reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple...

Born in New York City on 11 December 1908, Elliott Carter began to be seriously interested in music in high school and was encouraged at that time by Charles Ives. He attended Harvard University where...

Work for Orchestra composed in 1944 and revised in 1961.

Based on the thrilling Greek legend of Theseus and The Minotaur, two-scene Ballet captures the regal glitz of Minos' court and all the grit and gore of the Labyrinth and its monster. This is the full...

The Concerto for Orchestra consists of four separate ensembles using four distinct styles of music. This work exploits the small scale tactics of the string quartets in a much larger and timbrally and...

Carter's Variations for Orchestra is an astonishing work from 1956. There are ten variations, many of them of clearly identifiable character, some in tricky in-between places, each of them displaying...

This symphonic poem by French composer Paul Dukas was completed in 1897.  Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe," the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of...

This symphonic poem by French composer Paul Dukas was completed in 1897.  Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe," the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of...

Im Französischen bezeichnet das Wort "Villanelle" ein ländliches Lied oder einen Tanz. Es wurde im 16. Jahrhundert verwendet, um Lieder zu beschreiben, die sich einer einfachen Sprache bedienten und e...

Im Französischen bezeichnet das Wort "villanelle" ein ländliches Lied oder einen Tanz. Es wurde im 16. Jahrhundert verwendet, um Lieder zu beschreiben, die sich einer einfachen Sprache bedienten und e...

John McCabe's Psalm-Cantata (Orchestral Version). Full score for Soprano, Baritone, SATB choir and small Orchestra. This work was commissioned by the English Baroque Choir and their music director Jer...

For Soprano and Chamber Orchestra. Six poems by Elizabeth Bishop.