Commissioned by Paul Sacher who conducted the first performance in Lucerne 1980. The parts are also available here are the item codes. CH55410-01(harp)  CH55410-02 (oboe)

Musica Para Un Codice Salmantino one of the most important works in Joquin Rodrigo's search for more objectivity and less nationalism was composed in 1952. Duration approx. 14 minutes. The Orchestration includes: Piccolo Flute English Horn Trumpet Horn Harp Solo Bass Chorus (Soprano Alto Tenor Bass) Strings

Les Moulins; Danse des Galèriens; L'Age d'Or; Les Comédiens et Finale (wind (3334+6431) alto saxophones 4 timpani percussion celeste bells glockenspiel xylophone guitar 2 harps and strings)

Fanfarer-Danmarks Radio for Orchestra BVN 351 was composed by Rued Langgaard in 1948. Instrumentation: 3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/2 perc/org/str. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk This extremely short orchestral piece was composed 7 May1948 in Ribe. Exactly between 5:45 and 6:45 in the morning(“normal time”). Rued Langgaard indicates the time of dayin both the sketch for the composition and the fair copy of thescore. Fair-copying of the score took place on 10 May 4:30 to6:00 in the morning (“summertime”) after it should be noted Langgaard had taken his obligatory morning constitutional inRibe (he suffered from insomnia and arose in the early morninghours). After the work’s final measure Langgaard wrote:“Short razor-sharp line of thought in music excluding allextraneous ‘developmental’ fussiness and with lightning fastmovement in all the parts”. The same day 10 May he sent thescore as program suggestion to the State Broadcasting Servicein Copenhagen under the title Denmark’s Radio Fandfare forGrand Orchestra – “fandfare” as a sarcastically meant spellingmistake with an allusion to “the Devil” (fanden = the Devil inDanish). Langgaard had as is known an ambivalent relationshipwith the State Broadcasting Service. The work was not acceptedand the score was therefore returned to Langgaard whonevertheless submitted it again. The State Broadcasting Serviceclearly regarded the piece as a joke from the composer’s side.When Langgaard died in 1952 the unperformed score was tobe found in broadcasting corporation’s music

Herrmann wanted to write a musical portrait of his friend and colleague Alfred Hitchcok so choose motifs from the movie The Trouble With Harry one of Hitchcockâ??s more personal and humorous films. This single-movement work for Orchestra employs some of the more familiar elements of Herrmannâ??s compositional style: short musical phrases repeated and then repeated again in other positions sharp use of dynamics among them. From the first note the creepiness begins.Bernard Herrmann was among the very greatest of all composers of music for cinema and there are many who avow that he was the greatest of all. A very short list of the films for which this award-winning composercreated soundtracks includes Citizen Kane The Man Who Knew Too Much Vertigo Jason and Argonauts Fahrenheit 451 Obsession and Taxi Driver. He had a long and fertile association with Alfred Hitchcock during the most productive period of Hitchcockâ??s career and with Orson Welles from the time of the Mercury Theatre on the Air. In addition to his conducting and composing work for the entertainment world Herrmann wrote concert pieces including a symphony opera and cantata.

Création 30/11/2012 - Cologne (Allemagne), Philharmonie - Nicolas Hodges (piano), WDR sinfonieorchester Köln, Ilan Volkov (direction) Commanditaire Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln Dédicace à Nicolas Hodges Notice Le titre de ce concerto est emprunté à l'ouvrage classique de l'archéologue et philologue américaine Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (1979). Le chapitre V s'intitule : On the Wings of the Morning : the Pornography of Death. Il s'agit de cas de mort subite, de disparitions soudaines, du rapt des mâles par quelque femme-oiseau ou femme-lion - Harpies, Sphinges ou Sirènes -, créatures monstrueuses dont l'attrait est fatal. Les adorateurs de Dionysos ont souvent remarqué l'aisance et la grâce provocante de ces enjôleuses qu'un geste de brusque sauvagerie rapproche tout de même de la panthère. Pour la victime éblouie, l'envolée vers les cimes culmine en une étreinte funeste. Un battement d'ailes, une jonchée d'ossements, tel est le tableau de la pornographie de la mort. On the wings of the morning est une allusion aux incertitudes du temps présent, à ses Furies modernes. Ce concerto pour piano ne recherche pas l'effet pittoresque et n'a pas de caractère illustratif. L'évocation des bacchantes de l'Hadès est simplement l'occasion d'une fantasmagorie du demi-jour où les ombres jouent sur les surfaces tendues. L'orchestre se comporte comme une masse tumultueuse dont la dynamique conflictuelle est dominante. L'association des pupitres de clarinettes et de trombones, conçue comme un matériau paradoxal, donne sa tonalité d'ensemble à l'oeuvre : amères présences, prosaïsme lugubre, voûtes sans écho. Le temps n'est plus qu'un écheveau de moments transitoires. Le pianiste se trouve dans la situation du forçat des Palmiers Sauvages de Faulkner, condamné à pagayer sur le Mississippi en crue. Le Déluge, les apparitions démoniaques, le vent, le froid font son ordinaire. Sa tâche est de coudoyer les abîmes. L'esprit de ce piano n'est ni constructiviste ni combinatoire. C'est un esprit de survie, concentré sur l'intensification du matériau et la plasticité du mouvement. Commande de la Westdeutscher Rundfunk de Cologne, ce concerto pour piano et grand orchestre est dédié à Nicolas Hodges. Hugues Dufourt