Jacques Ibert’s Suite Élisabéthaine, composed in 1942 as incidental music for Le Songe d’une nuit d’été (Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream), was published in 1945 and is structured in nine...

Arthur Bliss’s The Women of Yueh, F.166, is a five‑song cycle composed in 1923–24 and first published in 1924, setting Chinese texts by Li Po (translated by Shigeyoshi Obata). Lasting about 7½ minutes, the work unfolds without breaks,...

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, the work unfolds as a continuous sequence of...

Sir Arthur Bliss’s Serenade for Baritone and Orchestra (F. 163), was composed in 1929 and first performed on 18 March 1930 at a London concert under the composer’s baton with baritone John Goss as soloist. The cycle lasts approximately 26...

Atterberg’s Horn Concerto in A minor, Op. 28, was composed in 1926 for the virtuoso Axel Malm and premiered in 1927 by the Stockholm Philharmonic under Adolf Wiklund with Malm as soloist. The concerto unfolds in three movements—Allegro...

MAPESU Music proudly presents this brand new engraving and revised edition of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 was composed in 1957 for the 19th birthday of his son Maxim, who gave the premiere performance at his graduation...

Bruno Maderna’s Violin Concerto, was composed in 1969 and premiered at the XXXII International Contemporary Music Festival in Venice on 12 September 1969, with Theo Olof as soloist and Maderna himself conducting. Maderna’s orchestration is...

MAPESU Music proudly presents this brand new engraving of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, an English‑language opera in three acts and an epilogue, composed between 1947 and 1951 on a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, loosely...

The Canzone a tre cori by Giovanni Gabrieli, originally composed in the early 17th century for three spatially separated choirs of instruments, was reimagined by Bruno Maderna in 1958. Maderna’s revision retains Gabrieli’s polychoral...

Arthur Bliss’s Morning Heroes, Op. 32, is a “symphony for orator, chorus and orchestra” composed in 1930 as a memorial to his brother Francis Kennard Bliss and all comrades killed in battle. It received its premiere at the Norwich...

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 a twelve-tone row—his first work to foreground...

The Vertigo Suite was arranged by Bernard Herrmann himself. Drawing directly from his 1958 film score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Herrmann crafted the concert suite in the same year, selecting and shaping the principal themes into a unified...

André Jolivet’s Cosmogonie is a standalone Prelude for Orchestra composed in 1938, derived from his earlier piano piece. The orchestral version lasts approximately 8 minutes and was first performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de France...

Arthur Bliss’s Six Royal Fanfares were composed in 1960 for the wedding of H.R.H. Princess Margaret on May 6 at Westminster Abbey, capturing the ceremonial grandeur of the occasion through concise brass writing. Scored for three trumpets, three...

Arthur Bliss’s Pastoral: Lie Strewn the White Flocks, F.33, composed in 1928, is a choral-orchestral work lasting approximately 35 minutes. It is scored for SATB chorus, mezzo-soprano soloist, flute, timpani, and strings. The piece sets a sequence...

Darius Milhaud's Agamemnon Op. 14 is an early dramatic work that engages with themes drawn from Greek tragedy. The piece reflects Milhaud’s initial exploration of modern compositional techniques, employing polytonal harmonies and clear rhythmic...

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 shape both its melodic and harmonic material, resulting in...

Waxman’s masterful composition for A Place in the Sun earned his 2nd consecutive Oscar for Best Scoring, marking a significant milestone in his career and cementing the work’s legacy as one of the most influential film scores of its era. His...