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Arthur Honegger's Vivace, H.220 for Orchestra is an early work estimated to have been composed before 1919. It reflects the formative stage of Honegger’s career, where he began to explore rhythmic drive and a clear sense of formal structure that...

REPRINT SERIES Ralph Vaughan Williams' Prelude on an Old Carol Tune is a short yet evocative orchestral piece for chamber orchestra, composed in 1953. It is based on the traditional carol On Christmas Night the Joy-Bells Ring, a lesser-known variant of...

Sibelius' Valse Triste, Op. 44, No. 1, is a hauntingly beautiful waltz originally composed in 1903 as part of the incidental music for his brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt’s play Kuolema ("Death"). The piece captures a dreamlike and melancholic...

REPRINT SERIES The origins of this piece can be traced back to an incident that occurred during a rehearsal at the inaugural Aspen Festival in 1950, when Stravinsky was displeased by a surprise rendition of "Happy Birthday to You", a song with which he...

REPRINT SERIES With its evocative pastoral opening, A Severn Rhapsody which was clearly written under thrall of George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad and Bridge’s Summer. Blue skies, birdsong, sunny fields, cool coppices and shaded brooks...

REPRINT SERIES  The famous Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp minor opens explosively and even uses organ pedals, it was first heard at the Proms at the Queen’s Hall on 20 September 1913 and Sir Henry Wood recorded it in October 1915.

While Sibelius’ composed music for many plays to great effect, with the brief melodramas Ett ensamt skidspår (A Lonely Ski Trail) and Grevinnans konterfej (The Countess’ Portrait) he also demonstrated his skill in writing for drama on a...

REPRINT SERIES The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street, is a short composition by American composer Charles Ives. This revised orchestrated version premiered in 1934 and is scored for a chamber orchestra, consisting of a flute,...