Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused a sensation at its world première performance, sung in English, in Birmingham UK in August 1846. The huge forces marshalled for the occasion delighted the audience, who demanded no fewer than eight encores and loudly acclaimed the composer despite an injunction to observe the solemnity of the occasion by refraining from ap…

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. The study score for Knussen's Violin Concerto Op.30 , composed in 2002 by commission from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The piece was first performed by Pinchas Zukerman with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh in April 2002./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Création 02/11/2013 - Londres, Barbican Center - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (direction) Commanditaire BBC Symphony Orchestra, Casa da Musica (Porto) et Musique Nouvelle en Liberté (pour l'Orchestre National de Lille)

Par SCRIABINE ALEXANDER. In the early years of our century, when vital new forces were revolutionising the arts, Russian-born Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) was one of the visionary pioneers who sought a new musical language. At least a fulldecade before the advances of Stravinsky and Schoenberg, Scriabin had begun the process of a complete break with all musical conventions. By 1905 he was immers…

Par PRICE FLORENCE. Florence Price (1887-1953) is noted as the first African-American female composer of symphonic works, and is only in recent years beginning to receive the recognition so richly deserved. Her Symphony No. 1 was completed in 1932 and first performed in 1933 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Here is a sparkling transcription for band of the third movement (Juba Dance). (Grade 4) …

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. One of the most original of Brahms symphonic works, the Fourth Symphony is endlessly resourceful in its melodic beauty, the ingenuity of its structure, and in the fine balance between its movements, from the wistful air of its opening measures toits splendid and formidable passacaglia finale. Published here in full Study Score format, with bar-numbered movements. One of the mo…

First to be published in the series was The Art of French Horn Playing by Philip Farkas, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at Indiana University. In 1956, when Summy-Birchard published Farkas's book, he was a solo horn player for the Chicago Symphony and had held similar positions with other orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Kansas City Conservatory, D…

Commande du Chicago Symphony Orchestra et de Radio France.Création du 5 mars 2014 à Chicago (U.S.A.), par Mathieu DUFOUR (flûte) et le Chicago Symphony Orchestra, sous la direction de Charles DUTOIT.Création française le 10 décembre 2015 par Mathieu DUFOUR (flûte) et l'Orchestre National de France, sous la direction de Ch. Eschenbach.Pour sortir au jour est le nom original du Livre des morts de l'…

The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles'the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guita…

from Symphony No 6. Par SPARKE PHILIP. This beautiful melody is taken from the final movement of Beethoven's sixth symphony, which has the title, Shepherds' Song: grateful feelings towards God after the storm. Bring the classic period alive with this great arrangement by Philip Sparke. / Niveau : 1 / Musique pour célébration / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

This series presents favorite orchestral classics, carefully graded and expertly arranged for piano solo with great teacher accompaniments! Online access to instrumental accompaniments, as MP3 or MIDI files, is included using the unique code provided inside the book.Level 2 includes: Alleluia (Mozart) - Barcarolle (Offenbach) - Hallelujah (Handel) - In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) - March…

Bohuslav Martinu wrote his First Violin Concerto in Paris in 1932-33, this work having been commissioned by the violin virtuoso Samuel Dushkin. However, it was never performed during the composer's lifetime and was even considered lost after his death. It was not until 1961 that musicologist and collector Hans Moldenhauer bought it from Boaz Piller, contrabassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestr…

Fassung für Sinfonieorchester. Par FAURE GABRIEL. Version for symphony orchestra: 60 min; Church version: 35 min Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Op. 48 for SATB and Piano. Version for Symphony orchestra. The Requiem of Gabriel Fauré is undoubtedly the most important opus among the sacred works of this French master. Beginning with the first performances during the composer?s lifetime, it is one of those …

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Je…

Arr. Dizzy Stratford. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Antonin’s New World is an excellent piece of musical theatre featuring a comedy act for triangle soloist and band. The music itself does not sound comical, being based on Anton Dvorak’s Symphony in E Minor (‘From the New World’), but the right mix of seriousness and humour brings a surprising effect. With a bit of acting talent from your triangle soloist, …