The two-movement work was inspired by the title of a book by Jacques Roubaud and dedicated to Violinist Gidon Kremer whose playing and musicianship also inspired the work.Kaija Saariaho is a contemporary Finnish composer living and working in Paris and Graal Théâtre is one of her principal works, frequently performed in spite of its ferocious virtuosic requirements.Unlike many of her other works, …

Solo horn part. Par ABRAHAMSEN HANS. The world premiere was given at the Berliner Philharmonie by the Berliner Philharmoniker, with Stefan Dohr as the soloist, conducted by Paavo Järvi on January 29, 2020. / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Répertoire / Cor et Orchestre

Par SORENSEN BENT . When it comes to titles, almost all the works I have composed have found their title before or at the same moment I started them. That is why it was also surprising - not to say transgressive - for me that my work for 9 instruments for Ensemble MidtVest was completely untitled until the last bar. Then it dawned on me that the titlelessness was a natural result of the music's vo…

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. 'Contemporary-music-without-tears has always been his aim, and this succinct little three-movement work showed him as skilful as ever in unpretentious directness of utterance, as it were in the vernacular. For the soloist it is a gift, alike in the first movement's almost indispensable fanfare-like challenges, in melody sometmes as nostalgic as Poulenc (especially haunting in t…

Full score. Par COLL FRANCISCO. Francisco Coll's Four Iberian Miniatures glitter with sharp, Andalusian light. Premiered by Pekka Kuusisto and the Britten Sinfonia under Coll's mentor Thomas Adès, this dazzling 12-minute work sees the flamboyant soloist dancing through lucid textures which filter flamenco through Coll's own fractured and surreal musical voice./ Répertoire / Violon et Orchestre de …

Featuring a 'guest soloist' playing smart phone or tablet, this one is beautiful and fun! Gorgeous string parts interact with the simple bell part. Invite an administrator to play 'bells' and be creative with staging. (2:35) / Orchestre A Cordes

Par WEBER CARL MARIA VON / BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Carl Maria von Weber, great innovator and orchestrator who paved the way for such Romantic giants as Wagner and Liszt, wrote this famous and oft-performed 'little concerto' in 1811. Lovely sonorities, beautiful themes - in short, a great piece for clarinet and orchestra. Also featured in this MMO edition, Beethoven's beautiful, warm-toned Piano Trio…

Chaque été, la cathédrale de Chichester dans le Sussex mobilise ses voisines de Winchester et de Salisbury pour l'un des plus grands festivals de musique religieuse de Grande-Bretagne : le Southern Cathedral's Festival. Pour l'édition de 1965, on a commandé une composition à Leonard Bernstein - les Chichester Psalms, devenus très populaires entretemps. Cette oeuvre en trois parties se base sur des…

SOLO TUNING See RM722 for Orchestral Tuning The 'Dragonetti Concerto' was first published in 1925 by Alphonse Leduc in Paris as No.23 of Edouard Nanny's 'Les Classiques de la Contrebasse'. For many years no one questioned its authenticity, but as more research into Dragonetti's original works for double bass was made, concerns began to arise. Many of Dragonetti manuscripts survive in the British …

Dvorák's 'Requiem?, for soloists, choir and orchestra, is one of the highlights within the international choral repertoire. Now Bärenreiter is presenting this work in an arrangement by Joachim Linckelmann with chamber orchestra based on the full score from the 'Complete Edition of the Works by Antonín Dvorák?.The arrangement dispenses with all the brass instruments except for a single horn- all th…

OPéRA COMIQUE IN FOUR ACTS INSTRUMENTATION : SOLOISTS, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA VERSION : STUDY SCORE DESCRIPTION : Â??CARMENÂ?? IS ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY PERFORMED OPERAS IN THE WORLD AND THE GENESIS OF THE WORK IS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL DOCUMENTED. IN SPITE OF THIS, NONE OF THE EDITIONS PUBLISHED AFTER THE COMPOSERÂ??S DEATH CORRESPOND TO HIS INTENTIONS. NOW DIDIONÂ??S EDITION, OF WHICH A PIANO RE…

Ballad On Danish Folk Legends. Par GADE NIELS WILHELM. With 'Elverskud” ('The Erl-Kings Daughter”), Gade presented his second 'secular cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra”, the first having been his successful 'Comala” Op. 12 (1845/46). The genre was quite popular among his contemporaries. This time, Gade planned to base the work on the text of a folk song. Originally, he had approached Hans…

Imagine four soloists playing eight Boomwhackers on the heads of eight brave audience members while being accompanied by string orchestra. That's the scenario of this hilarious show-stopper. Your audience will love hearing 'Jingle Bells,' 'Good King Wenceslas,' and 'Deck the Halls' like never before. Used by the composer with his own orchestra and guest teachers, this simple yet highly effective n…