The second movement can easily be performed on its own with its beautiful lyrical melodies and powerful emotional impact. The third movement makes use of themes heard throughout the other movements before coming to a grand conclusion. You won’t want to miss this one!
This is the full score of Aheym For Orchestra composed by Bryce Dessner best known as the guitarist of The National but also an acclaimed composer in his own right. If sodesired this work can be performed with Strings alone: the Wind and Percussion instruments are optional. Composed in 2009 for the Kronos Quartet for their performance in Brooklyn's Prospect Park for the CelebrateBrooklyn…
Composer Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) was a native of Spain but was influenced early in his career by the impressionistic harmonies of Debussy and Ravel while studying in Paris. Upon returning to Spain he drew inspiration fromSpanish folk music with La Procession du Rocio becoming one of his best-known works. The music portrays a festival and procession that takes place in the Triana neighborhood o…
Premiered at Carnegie Hall this minimalistic fanfare celebrates SpaceShipOne the first privately manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 62 miles twice within two weeks. The three sections explore the launch to space reaching the apogee (weightlessness) and the return to the atmosphere. Punctuated by incredible brass fanfares and woodwind flourishes the entire work is a bundle of energy fr…
To celebrate the completion of the Eulenburg Audio Score publishing project all 50 volumes are now available in a presentation box. With the help of Eulenburg Audio Score professional amateur and student musicians can familiarize themselves with the works by reading and listening at the same time. Each score contains an informative preface in English and German providing a brief introduc…
This captivating composition was inspired by that 'breakthrough' moment when people start to realize there is much more to life than they originally thought. Opening with a woodwind ostinato the horns introduce the melody that becomes the focus of the work. The pace continues through a beautiful lyrical section that soon explodes into a triumphant ending of brass under a flourishing woodwind osti…
Commissioned by the tuba-euphonium quartet Junction it premiered in 2001 at the Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Lahti Finland. It is based on a rhythmic multimeter motif that constantly propels the work forward. All parts serve as an integral element in the development of the piece.
Be immersed in a sea of swirling colors with this bold and exciting new scherzo for band. The furious 3-beat pulse evokes images of spiraling colors and dark passionate and intense moods. Animated rhythms give way to a poignant hymn introduced and concluded by a piccolo solo in a contrasting lyrical section. Spiraling once again into a juxtaposition of themes the work combines excellent percuss…
The Magic Flute In Full Score was created at the peak of the Enlightenment Mozart's divine and enduring milestone of Opera is both a light-hearted fairy tale and an epic story of the strugglebetween good and evil.The Magic Flute met instant acclaim at its 1791 premiere and it remains among one of Mozart's most performed and admired works.
Work for 2 Trumpets 2 Horns and 2 Trombones premiered in the Museum of Scotland in 1998 by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxwell Davies has relished incorporating brilliant tuckets and alarms for brass in hislarger-scale scores too much to write a perfunctory fanfare; a seminal influence was the statue of St. Michael on the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome where he studied in the late 195…
Quite possibly one of Robert Longfield's finest works for concert band this theme and variations is based on a simple sequence of four notes. The set of six variations and a powerful finale provides the form in which Robert covers a wealth of styles portraying the full gamut of musical textures and emotions. A fabulous piece to showcase your advanced ensemble in concert or at festival. Highly re…
Quartet in C Minor is in four movements with a total duration of about 25 minutes. The opening Allegro is Dvorák-ish in its lyricism though there is a darker more brooding atmosphere towards the close. It is tempting to detect a hint of folk-song in the theme of the Andantino played by the Viola but that may be stretching hindsight too far. The movement has a wistful melancholy that carries o…
Written in memory of Gilbert Johnson former principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and professor of trumpet at the University of Miami. This work is based on two of his most famous recordings: The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli (specifically Canzona per sonare No. 2) and Respighi's Pines of Rome. It makes effective use of an antiphonal choir and is an excellent concert opener.
Score-For String Orchestra and presented as a study score. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in music! This landmark five-movement string symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 100th anniversary ofsymphony hall in that city and premiered there on November 30 2000 with Seiji Ozawa conducting. The composer's comments about the music appear in an introduction t…
Party 'Happy Birthday'-Veitsla (Party 'Happy Birthday') was composed by Sunleif Rasmussen in 2013. The piece is a 30 years birthday gift to the Faroese Symphony Orchestra. It is dedicated to the conductor of the orchestra for many years Bernharður Wilkinson and the founders of the Orchestra Kanny Sambleben and Magne Synnevåg.
Group Portrait With Smetana by Poul Ruders is a short symphonic entertainment commissioned and written for Bamberger Symphoniker - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie in 2014.
Commissioned by the BBC for the 1969 Henry Wood Promenade Concert Season. Premiered by Zara Nelsova and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis.
Elgar did not compose his first symphony until 1908 at the age of fifty although he had been planning it for many years. This work was quickly hailed as the first great English symphony and enjoyed success in Britain America Austria Canada Australia and Germany; it was performed some one hundred times within a year of its premiere.Available here is a miniature score of Elgar’s Symphony No…
