Orchestral & Instrumental Material for Choral Pieces-Cello part for Sarah Quartel's Snow Angel. This solo Cello part accompanies Sarah Quartel's evocative five-movement choral work Snow Angel which explores themes of love rebirth and beauty through the eyes of children and the heavenly army of angels that watch over them. The haunting and poignant Cello line is woven through the work. This Cello part is compatible with the upper and mixed voice versions of Snow Angel.

These three movements for piano and band depict three stages of a musical journey. We set off on a long journey through the world of musical virtuosity in the style of Liszt : grand lustrous and lyrical. The second stage is a peaceful stroll the start of a dream. The colours are like a tender caress and the piano sketches transparent arabesques. This splendid impressionistic journey ends in two bright pink drops which evapore just in time before the third and last movement explodes.The last movement is driven forward by a raging rhythm as relentless as a war-dance. In a confrontation between the soloist and the orchestra all the inner strength of the composer comes to thesurface so that the musicians in the end are breathless... but all the same no less satisfied.

Taken from one of Bach's keyboard collections this adaptation for strings by John Leavitt becomes an exquisite movement for performance. Independence of line rhythmic connection between sections and strong melodic structurewill also give students meaningful insight into the genius of J.S. Bach. Dur: 3:30

Originally the title for Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love Fat Knight was conceived as a seven-movement orchestral suite that drew upon the opera and had as its central character Shakespeare's Falstaff. Vaughan Williams never completed the work and left only a two-piano score the basis of this realisation.

for String Orchestra-A thoughtful lyric movement for strings Reverie for String Orchestra continues to be a favorite of orchestra directors particularly as an expressive program piece for festival and contest. This work offers plenty ofopportunities to present dramatic and sensitive musical expression from the entire ensemble.

Hans Abrahamsen's Concerto For Piano And Orchestra was composed in 1999 by commission for the BIT-20 Ensemble. A complex and multi-layered work opening with highly minimal material and very slowly building to an ecstatic frenzy across the four movements. As the piece progresses Abrahamsen has also included some significant nods towards composers Gyorgy Ligeti (a former teacher of the composer) and Gustav Mahler.The work was premiered at the Ultima Festival in Oslo in 2000 with Anne Marie Abildskov as soloist. I Allegro Volante e nervoso II Adagio innocente e semplice III Tempo de grandegioia IV Fluente ma tranquillo Programmenote: ???The piano concerto starts entirely as I usually start with this filigree in the piano and many simultaneous layers ??? Hans Abrahamsen has explained ???The beginning is music that could continue almost minimalistically ad infinitum. But it doesn???t. Instead it has a seizure after just thirty seconds. It literally comes to a halt!???There is no programmatic structure behind the four-movement course of the concerto but a romantically minded listener may be tempted to interpret the development from a quick stalling of the familiar through the introduction (by the lyrical second movement) of something much more ???innocent and simple??? as it says - something feminine one feels like adding - to the third movement???s flashing firework display of a scherzo which draws the curtain aside for a liberating rush of joy as life after the advent of love. However the undersigned assumes full responsibility for this interpretation.The piano soloist is the undisputed main character in the concerto and plays almost constantly in the first three movements. It is only in the fourth movement that she takes a break and listens. ???The piano stirs up an anthill??? is Hans Abrahamsen???s own description ???and it becomes almost operatic! It is as if the music is about to fall right out over the edge of the abyss at the drastic general

Dvorák?s Symphony No. 7 was commissioned by the ?Royal Philharmonic Society? in August 1883 and received its premiere on 22 April 1885 in London conducted by the composer himself. The following June the second movement was shortened by some 40 bars and the work was published in this form in 1885 by Simrock.The editor of this new scholarly-critical edition is Jonathan Del Mar who has gained an international reputation for his edition of Dvorák?s cello concerto in B minor (BA 9045) not to mention his editions of works by Beethoven and Elgar. Del Mar has drawn on all the available sources including letters. The original version of the second movement appears in theappendix as well as in the performing material.This new Bärenreiter edition sets the highest scholarly standards whilst also taking the needs of modern performers into account. First Urtext edition of this important workContains the original London version of the second movementIncludes a foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and a critical commentary (Eng)

Dvorák?s Symphony No. 7 was commissioned by the ?Royal Philharmonic Society? in August 1883 and received its premiere on 22 April 1885 in London conducted by the composer himself. The following June the second movement was shortened by some 40 bars and the work was published in this form in 1885 by Simrock.The editor of this new scholarly-critical edition is Jonathan Del Mar who has gained an international reputation for his edition of Dvorák?s cello concerto in B minor (BA 9045) not to mention his editions of works by Beethoven and Elgar. Del Mar has drawn on all the available sources including letters. The original version of the second movement appears in theappendix as well as in the performing material.This new Bärenreiter edition sets the highest scholarly standards whilst also taking the needs of modern performers into account. First Urtext edition of this important workContains the original London version of the second movementIncludes a foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and a critical commentary (Eng)

Movement 2: Happy Voices Fuga for Orchestra. Par TREDICI DAVID DEL. Les notes du compositeur: and ldquo - Child Alice a été conçu comme une continuité unique... les divers extraits peuvent être effectuées séparément. Options incluent : partie II de l'enfant Alicemay être joué sans partie I * événements pittoresques (no 1) et Happy Voices (no 2) peuvent être joué comme une unité * Quainty événements peut être joué séparément * Happy Voices peut être joué séparément * tous les après-midi de Golden peut par joué séparément. and rdquo -/ Répertoire / Soprano et Orchestre

Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Robertson 29th November 2002.3 Flutes 1st and 2nd also Alto Flutes in G 3rd also Piccolo3 Oboes 3rd also Cor Anglais in F3 Clarinets in Bb 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb3 Bassoons 3rd also Contra Bassoon4 Horn in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 TubaTimpani4 Percussion four playersPlayer 1 - Vibraphone Glockenspiel Water Chime Bell Tree Japanese Wood Blocks Cymbal (Suspended) TamTam (Medium)Player 2 - Triangle Tubular Bells Crotales Marimba Chinese CymbalPlayer 3 - TamTam (Large) Java Gong(Large very low) Bell Lyra (Handheld) Sizzle CymbalPlayer 4 - Bass Drum Glockenspiel Xylophone1 Harp1 Piano also CelestaStrings - 16/14/12/10/8All transposing instruments are notated in their relevant transpositions.Any accidental apply only to the note that it immediately precedes except tied notes.Naturals appear occasionally 'for safety'.'LISTENING EARTH' is a symphonic drama a one- movement composition in four parts based on the work by two writers Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and W.H.Auden (1907-1973). Joseph Addison is not particularly well known; he was English a classical scholar essayist poet and politician but one of his hymns was used by Benjamin Britten. in his setting of a Thomas Tallis canon.The hymn is singularly beautiful and being a composer always inspired by extramusical stimuli such as poems nature paintings I was immediately convinced when I carne across the Addison hymn that here was exactly what I wanted to use as my major source of inspiration for this piece commissioned by and written for The Berlin Philharmonic. I don't refer to the hymn in its entirety but have chosen the following 3 excerpts all acting as mottos for the first three sections of the piece thus turning the piece into a straightforward tonepoem in the classical

Paperback-Jointly commissioned by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and Oxford University Press 'A Road All Paved With Stars' is a single-movement work incorporating the finest music of Vaughan Williams's opera The Poisoned Kiss.

Piano Reduction By The Composer (Op. 100Bis). Par SAKAI ITARU. CONCERTO FOR TRUMPET AND ORCHESTRA is a concerto in three movements in the Romantic style composed by Itaru Sakai. After a first movement full of contrast, two movements with an individual and distinct character follow: firstly, a rather melancholymovement for flugelhorn, and in conclusion a cheerful dance movement for piccolo trumpet. / Niveau : Très Difficile / Répertoire / Trompette, Bugle, Piccolo Trompette, Piano

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the Grande Sonate pathétique op. 13 and Symphony No. 2 op. 35. The work's initial drafts date from 1800-01 - it was first published in March 1802. This demanding sonata is highly varied in its form: it begins with a set of variations and contains the famous Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe as its third movement, earning it the nickname 'Sonata with the Funeral March?. The identity of the title's eroe (hero) remains unknown to the present day. The march was performed at Beethoven's funeral on 29 March 1827 in an arrangement for orchestra.For this Bärenreiter edition Jonathan Del Mar, possibly as one of the first editors of a modern edition, consulted the composer's autograph in the original. This enabled him to decipher details of Beethoven's handwriting in particular with regard to the exact notation of doubtful slurs. The result is a most reliable and thoroughly-researched musical text. Differing readings and editorial decisions are documented in the Critical Commentary. The edition has been finely engraved and includes practical page turns. Information on central issues of historical performance practice (pedalling, ornaments, tempo, dynamics, articulation) is provided in a detailed chapter. - Scholarly-critical Urtext edition based on most recent Beethoven research - Evaluation of Beethoven's autograph in the original - Elegant engraving with practical page turns - Informative Introduction (Eng / Ger) - Discussion of central performance practice issues (Eng / Ger) - Detailed Critical Commentary (Eng) / Piano

Via Della Fortuna by Sadie Harrison. Written in 2013 especially for the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra and Donatus Katkus.6; for String OrchestraWorld premiere: 25th April 2013 St. Katharine'sChurch Vilnius St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra conducted by Donatus Katkus.UK premiere: 10th May 2013 Cardiff Millennium Centre Vale of Glamorgan Festival.I - Casa di Caccia Antica (The House of the AncientHunt)II - Casa degli Amorini Dorati (The House of the Golden Cupids)III - Casa del poeta tragico (The House of the tragic poet)IV - Return to the Casa di Caccia Antica and northwards to Lithuania and the Amber Road(Gintaro Kelias)The piece is in four short movements each taking its title from one of the houses that line the main streets in Pompeii. Borrowing Mussorgsky's 'Promenade' from Pictures at an Exhibition the piece has twowalkers (violas) who take the listener with them onto the Via Della Fortuna then lead them from house to house. Several amber objects were found within the houses linking Pompeii with Lithuania. The lastmovement returns to the House of the Ancient Hunt then heads northwards along the Gintaro Kelias. The jubilant closing music refers to an earlier work (Geda's Weavings) based on Lithuanian folksongs.