Darius Milhaud's Cinéma-Fantaisie sur "Le Bœuf sur le toit", Op. 58b, is a vibrant and playful work for violin and orchestra, adapted from his earlier ballet Le Bœuf sur le toit , available here. This version maintains the...

Bruno Maderna's Introduzione e Passacaglia is a striking orchestral work that showcases his deep engagement with serial techniques and expressive freedom. Composed in 1953, the piece reflects Maderna’s affinity for both rigorous structural...

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Three Portraits from The England of Elizabeth is a suite derived from his music for the 1955 documentary film The England of Elizabeth. This orchestral work, structured in three movements, captures the spirit and historical...

Arthur Bliss's "Music for Strings" is a vibrant and expressive work composed in 1935, showcasing the composer’s mastery of string writing. The piece was commissioned for the 1935 Salzburg Festival and is structured in three movements: Prelude,...

We proudly present the newly engraved and revised version of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35, composed in 1933, is a vibrant and unconventional work for piano, trumpet, and string orchestra. It represents a blend of wit,...

Waxman's "Katsumi Love Theme," composed for the Academy Award-winning film Sayonara (1957), is a poignant musical embodiment of the film's central romance. The piece exudes a delicate blend of East and West, reflecting the cross-cultural love story...

Dmitri Shostakovich's "Tahiti-Trot," Op. 16, composed in 1927, is a delightful and whimsical orchestral suite that showcases the composer’s early satirical style. Written during a period when Shostakovich was navigating the complex political...

Bruno Maderna's edition and revision of Antonio Vivaldi's Beatus Vir represents a compelling intersection of Baroque sensibilities and 20th-century musicological insight. Vivaldi's original composition, a grand psalm setting for choir, soloists, and...

“To orchestrate is like a thumbprint. I can’t understand having someone else do it. It would be like someone putting color to your paintings.” Musically precocious, Bernard Herrmann (b. 1911, New York City; d.1975, North Hollywood)...

The symphony is a short (about 20 minutes) experimental work in one movement; within this movement are four sections, the last of which includes a chorus. In a marked departure from his First Symphony, Shostakovich composed his Second in a gestural,...

 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 well-received first Tartiniana, Materassi came to him with...

Herrmann, for all his Angst, was a New Yorker born and bred. His Sinfonietta was composed in 1936, just before his film career took off. It contains what Steven Smith, Herrmann's biographer, describes as ''a quality dissonant Interlude''. Many years...

While Shostakovich wrote this piece as his graduation exercise from Maximilian Steinberg's composition class, some of the material may have dated from considerably earlier. The immediate parallel to the 19-year-old composer presenting his first symphony...

Three-movement work composed for the Festival Of Israel, 1972.

Alan Rawsthorne's First Symphony is a thunderous, bounding, jagged affair, relieved by quieter moments of irony.

In 1955, Heitor Villa-Lobos was commissioned by John Sebastian to write a harmonica concerto, and the piece was premiered in in Jerusalem on October 27, 1959, a month before Villa's death. Villa-Lobos was one of a number of eminent composers...

Renard: histoire burlesque chantée et jouée, or The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played, is a chamber opera-ballet for four male voices and 16 instrumentalists written in 1916 by Igor Stravinsky. Its original Russian text, by the composer,...