Partituren für Orchester

Habanera, composed for piano in October 1885, explores a folk tune that Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) collected on his five-month trip to Spain. The habanera derives its name from Havana, Cuba, charac...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

Hänsel und Gretel, a Märchenspiel (Fairy-tale opera) in three acts, was written by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in 1890-1892, with a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck began to wo...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his stud...

Kuolema ("Death" in Finnish) is a play by Arvid Järnefelt. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) happened to be Järnefelt's brother-in-law, and he composed incidental music to the play under the same title (Kuole...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

Sergej Prokofjew (1891-1953) widmete sein CONCERTO für Klavier Nr. 1 in D-Dur, op. 10, seinem Lehrer Nikolai Tscherepnin. Er komponierte es in den Jahren 1911 und 1912 und brachte es am 18. Mai 1912 i...

EIN' FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT ('A Mighty Fortress Is Our God') is among the best known hymns written by reformer Martin Luther, and has been used by many composers, including by J.S. Bach, in various...

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) wrote the four-act verismo opera Andrea Chénier in 1896, and it remains his best-known work. It premiered on March 28, 1896, at La Scala in Milan. Loosely based on the lif...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) four-act opera-ballet Mlada was originally conceived as a collaborative project with music provided by five composers: César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsk...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Die ursprünglich von Debussy für Klavier zu vier Händen geschriebene PETITE SUITE wurde mehrfach transkribiert, wobei die Orchesterbearbeitung von Henri Büsser die bekannteste ist. Das Werk, das viell...

Die BAUERN-POLKA (POLKA FRANÇAISE) op. 276 von Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) enthielt als einziges Werk eine Gesangsstimme für Chor, die vom ersten Publikum schnell aufgenommen wurde. Die Uraufführung...

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario) is a comic singspiel written by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) as "a parody on the vanity of singers," who argue over status and pay. Described by Mozart as "comedy w...

LA VIE PARISIENNE: OVERTURE ON THEMES BY OFFENBACH wurde von dem in Ungarn geborenen Dirigenten und Komponisten Antal Dorati (1906-1988) zusammengestellt und arrangiert und gehört zu den reizvollsten...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

Written as a tribute to the soft-shoe style of dancing common in vaudeville acts of the early 20th century, Leroy Anderson’s "Sandpaper Ballet" was not intended to be an actual ballet, though it certa...

Like most of Leroy Anderson's efforts, "Belle of the Ball" is light, effervescent, and devoid of conflict or disharmony. Anderson looked upon the piece as a modern-day American revival -- or revitaliz...

Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953) began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera, The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the sum...

From Smetana's famous Bohemian opera, "The Bartered Bride," this familiar movement is an audience favorite with its lively rhythms and characteristic melodies. It's edited from the original and has so...

Oboe, Englischhorn, Klarinette in B, Bassklarinette in B, 2 Fagotte, 4 Hörner in F, 2 Trompeten, 2 Posaunen, Pauken, Harfe, - Streicher

The magnificent interweaving of harmonies and dialogue-like Voices in Handel's For Unto Us A Child Is Born make it a perfect addition to the festive choral repertoire. German-born, British Baroque co...