Partituren für Orchester

Calvin Custer gives us a medley saluting the master of song, Henry Mancini. The wonderful sounds for large 'pops-style' orchestra include: 'Baby Elephant Walk,' 'Charade,' 'The Pink Panther,' 'Days of...

Die feierliche und dramatische Interpretation von The Star-Spangled Banner von Sean O'Loughlin, die zunächst für Blechbläser und Schlagzeug arrangiert wurde, ist nun in einer wunderschönen Fassung für...

The Mouvements Perpetuels is a short three-movement suite originally composed for solo Piano by the French composer Francis Poulenc, premiered in Paris in December 1918, when Poulenc wasonly19. The su...

Text: St Teresa of Avila, translated by Arthur Symons. Premiered by Kathleen Ferrier in 1948.

Work for Orchestra premiered by BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1961.

Work for Solo Tenor and Orchestra. Text: Pierre de Ronsard. Commissioned by the BBC for the 1963 Promenade Concerts. Premiered by Peter Pears.

This was composed in 1971.

This work for soprano, children's choir, chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. the first performance was given by them in July 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall with the Londo...

This work was commissioned by the BBC (Scotland) and the Saltire Society to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Beethoven. The first performance was by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, 1970, condu...

This is the sacred comedy among Davies' pieces of music-theatre. Brought on by a children's wind band in a 7/8 march, the juggler presents himself at an abbey and is accepted by the abbot, the only si...

The authorship of the six poems used in this song cycle is generally attributed to Petronius Arbiter (died ca AD66), Nero's Arbiter of Elegance and author of the Satyricon, a comic novel with poems in...

Acquainted with Night', is a cycle of six songs, for alto and strings, harp and timpani. The texts are all concerned with different aspects of night. The first song, 'Lullaby' to a poem by Beaumont an...

Psychologists agree that dreaming is essential to our mental well-being. Artists have always been intuitively aware of this, and the above lines are one illustration of this awareness. Composers, as w...

Written for and first performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in December 1986.

Opera in One Act After Cervantes

Work commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra.

A short piece for small orchestra, written in 1989 when the composer heard of Michael Vyner's death. Premiered in October 1989 at Glyndebourne Sussex, by the London Sinfonietta and conducted by the co...

This first version was compiled from sketches by musicologist Antonio Gallego in 1986. Originally written in 1914-15.

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players, singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere, in which t...

This work was commissioned by the 1976 Three Choirs Festival and first performed in Hereford Cathedral on 26 August 1976.