Partitions de Novello & Co Ltd. pour Orchestre

Commissioned by Novello and Company Ltd for 'Music for Today' Series. Scored for 2121/2210/timp perc/strings.

Gerard Schurmann (b. 1924) is a Dutch contemporary composer who was born in the Dutch East Indies and lived in England from childhood before setting in the USA in 1981. His orchestral works span 5 decades and he remains in demand for commissions today. The single-movement Cello Concerto The Gardens of Exile was first performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in March 1991. It received immediate critical acclaim with one reviewer calling it ?an extraordinarily fine and imaginative composition?. It features a tense orchestral build up before the Cello enters gradually emerging from the texture and taking control of the music. Asignificant contribution to the repertoire this study score is published by Novello.

'I responded to this exciting but rather daunting commission by writing a very lively and I hope very accessible piece which I decided before I started composing should be full of tunes. I wrote it in memory of my dear friend Sheila MacCrindle who died in 1993... although this Partita is in her memory it never occurred to me to make it gloomy or dirge-like; that is not how I remember her.' Richard Rodney Bennett.Partita for Orchestra by Richard Rodney Bennett was commissioned by British Telecommunications plc in co-operation with the Association of British Orchestras to be performed byseventeen different orchestras between October 1995 and July 1996.Duration: c.17 mins.

Par SPOLIANSKY MISCHA. Boogie (1958) is a lively, jazz-inspired orchestral work by Mischa Spoliansky, one of the leading cabaret and revue composers of the Weimar years in Berlin, and a gifted writer of film music internationally, including The Private Life of Don Juan, King Solomon?s Mines and Happiest Days of Your Life. / Date parution : 2022-04-05/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Malcolm Arnold's ever popular set of by turn lusty and lyrical reels and strathspeys, now in study score format, newly engraved and corrected for the first time since its publication in 1957. / Orchestre

The study score of Malcolm Arnold's 1955 concert masterpiece in a new engraving and edition. / Orchestre

Aulis Sallinen’s Symphony No.7 is related to J.R.R. Tolkien’s great novel 'The Lord of the Rings.' The symphony does not actually depict the events in the novel; rather it is a musical expression of the literary atmosphere and poetry. The symphony was commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and composed in 1995-6. Orchestration: 3 Flutes 3 Oboes 3 Clarinets in B flat 3 Bassoons 4 Horns in F 4 Trumpets in B flat 3 Trombones Tuba Timpani Percussion Celesta Harp Strings. The duration of the work is 25 minutes full score and orchestral material is available for hire.

Gustav Holst wrote the libretto and music for his opera The Perfect Fool over the years 1918 to 1922. It had its premiere at in London the next year but mystified audiences and has been rarely performed since then. This five-movement suite of introductory ballet music is arranged separately as an Orchestral suite.The ballet music includes dances for the Spirits of Earth Water and Fire and Holst’s music evokes the moods of these beings delightfully.Gustav Holst has earned a place among the most revered of late 19th and early 20th century composers and is best known for his enduring Orchestral suite The Planets.

J S Bach composed the Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor in approximately 1723 when he was in Weimar. Elgar proposed an Orchestration of the work dividing the work into two parts with Richard Strauss in the 1920’s. In the end Elgar created the entire Orchestration himself and it was given its premiere in 1922 almost two centuries precisely since Bach wrote the original.

Richard Rodney Bennet’s Symphony No. 3 commissioned for the 1987 Three Choirs Festival by the Elgar Foundation with additional funds from West Midlands Arts is now published in a facsimile study score.In contrast with his first two symphonies which were rather extrovert display pieces Symphony No. 3 is quite thoughtful and lyrical in nature more or less monothematic and has a strong feeling of tonality particularly at the opening and closing of the score. The more moderate orchestration (2 Flutes Oboe Cor Anglais 2 Clarinets in B flat Bassoon 2 Horns in F Percussion 1 (small Triangle Tam-tam 3 suspendedCymbals) Percussion 2 (side Drum tubular Bells) Timpani Piano Harp and Strings) also reflects this. Performance time of the three movements is ca. 22 minutes.Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was an English composer of film TV and concert music and also a jazz pianist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.

A facsimile study score for one of Sallinen's most recent works A Solemn Overture. Orchestration: 3 flutes 3 oboes 3 clarinets in B flat 3 bassoons 4 horns in F 3 trumpets in B flat 3 trombones in C Tuba Timpani Harp and Strings. Duration approximately 10mins.

Opus 68a; Overture to the opera The Palace (1994). The libretto (by Irene Dische and Hans Magnus Enzenberger) is strongly influenced by Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and it alludes to the original Bretzner/Stephanie text as wellas the book King of The Kings by Ryszard Kapuscinski which tells of the downfall of Haile Selassie's court in Ethiopia. Facsimile Study Score. Duration 6-7mins. Orchestration: 2.2.2.2 4.2.2.1 Timpani 2 Percussion Harp Strings.

An orchestral work that imitates the sounds of the technological society that we live in

I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me (Score)-Orchestrated by Gordon Jacob.Instrumentation.2 Flutes2 Oboes2 Clarinets in B flat2 Bassoons4 Horns in F8 Trumpets in B flat2 Tenor TrombonesTubaTimpaniPiccolo SnareHarpOrganChorusStrings

This work is in the nature of an orchestral epilogue to the same composer's two sets of songs the words of which are taken from Mr A.E. Housman's poem A Shropshire Lad.