Britten: Prelude and Fugue for 18-Part String Orchestra, Op.29 $449.95 Benjamin Britten’s Prelude and Fugue, Op. 29, was composed in 1943 for 18-part string orchestra, and it was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Boyd Neel Orchestra. It lasts...
Britten: Simple Symphony Op.4 for String Orchestra $535.00 Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony, Op. 4, was written in 1933–34 and is wholly derived from themes he composed as a child; it is scored for string orchestra (also playable as a string...
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Op.20 $169.99 - $1,095.99 Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20, was composed in 1939–40 to a commission from the Japanese government for the 2,600th anniversary of the imperial line; the Japanese...
Britten: Soirées musicales Op.9 $169.99 - $849.95 Benjamin Britten composed Soirées musicales, Op. 9, in 1935–36, drawing on melodies by Gioachino Rossini, particularly from Rossini’s vocal collection Soirées musicales of...
Britten: Spring Symphony Op.44 for Soprano, Alto and Tenor Voice, SATB Chorus, Boy's Chorus and Orchestra $169.99 - $1,095.00 Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony, Op. 44, was composed in 1948–49 on commission from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Britten described it as “a symphony not only dealing with the...
Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra Op.68 $174.99 - $845.00 Benjamin Britten’s Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68, was composed in 1963 and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere with Britten conducting the Moscow Philharmonic...
Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op.34 $159.95 - $799.95 The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell) was written by Benjamin Britten in 1945 for a British Ministry of Education film,...
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15 for Violin and Orchestra $174.99 - $949.99 Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto Op.15, was composed in 1938–39 and premiered in New York in March 1940 with Antonio Brosa as soloist and Sir John Barbirolli conducting. the...
Britten: War Requiem Op.66 $129.95 - $1,795.00 Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Op. 66 (composed 1961–62), is a large-scale choral-orchestral work written for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and intended as a musical act...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Cello Concerto in G minor Op.72 $189.95 - $1,049.95 Inspired by the personality, prodigious technique and musicality of the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Cello Concerto in G minor is a work of imposing scale and demanding...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No.2 Op.66 "I Profeti" $189.95 - $995.00 Among Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s important, large-scale Judaically incited concert works is his second violin concerto (Op. 66), which he subtitled I profeti (The Prophets). Its three movements are...
Dallapiccola: An Mathilde, Cantata for Soprano and Orchestra $635.00 Luigi Dallapiccola’s An Mathilde (1955) is a cantata for soprano and orchestra setting five German poems by Heinrich Heine drawn from Romanzero and Letzte Gedichte. Lasting about 15 minutes,...
Dallapiccola: Cinque Frammenti di Saffo $199.95 Luigi Dallapiccola’s Cinque Frammenti di Saffo (1942) is a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra setting Italian texts by Salvatore Quasimodo after five poems of Sappho. Though built on...
Dallapiccola: Commiato for Soprano and 15 Instruments $285.00 Luigi Dallapiccola’s Commiato (1972) is a masterful example of the composer’s late style, blending his deep engagement with serial techniques and his fascination with literary expression...
Dallapiccola: Partita for Orchestra $139.99 - $949.99 Partita is the work with which Dallapiccola first came to international recognition. Written in memory of the Italian pianist Ernesto Consolo, it is scored in four movements for orchestra, with a...
Dallapiccola: Sex Carmina Alcaei, for Soprano and 11 Instruments $275.00 Dallapiccola’s Sex Carmina Alcaei is a vocal work that applies his mature serial techniques to a careful setting of poetic texts. The composition uses a meticulously structured tone row to...
Dallapiccola: Sicut Umbra for Mezzo-Soprano and 12 Instruments $285.00 Luigi Dallapiccola’s Sicut Umbra (“Like a Shadow”) is a twelve-tone cantata for mezzo‑soprano and twelve instruments, set to poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez and composed...
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana Seconda, Divertimento for Violin and Orchestra $475.00 Luigi Dallapiccola was spurred to write his Tartiniana seconda, for violin accompanied by either piano or orchestra, by violinist Sandro Materassi; hoping for a sequel to Dallapiccola's...
