REPRINT SERIES  Richard Strauss’s Sonatine No. 2 in E♭ major, TrV 291, subtitled Fröhliche Werkstatt (“Cheerful Workshop”), was composed in 1944–45 in Garmisch and first performed in March 1946 by Hermann Scherchen...

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...

REPRINT SERIES  Richard Strauss’s Sonatina No. 1 in F major “From an Invalid’s Workshop”, TrV 288 (Op. 135), was composed in 1943 as one of two wind-ensemble works from his late period. Stylistically, the work combines...

Arthur Honegger’s Blues (de Roses de métal), H. 66a is an orchestral transcription dating from around 1928, salvaged from his lost ballet Roses de métal (H. 66). Cast as a standalone concert piece, it preserves the original’s...

REPRINT SERIES  Richard Strauss’s Duet‑Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings, and Harp, TrV 293, was completed on 16 December 1947 in Montreux and represents one of his final purely instrumental works. Scored for solo clarinet and...

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,...

Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Op. 20 is a tone poem composed in 1888—when the composer was just 24—and first performed by Strauss himself in Weimar on 11 November 1889. Inspired by Nikolaus Lenau’s verse drama Don Juans Ende, the...

REPRINT SERIES  Alan Rawsthorne’s Symphony No. 3 was composed in 1964 on commission from the Cheltenham Festival Committee and premiered that year by the BBC Northern Orchestra under George Hurst in Cheltenham.  Lasting approximately 31...

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...

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85a (1945) is the composer's own arrangement for guitar and orchestra of his 1935 solo-guitar piece “Capriccio Diabolico (Omaggio a Paganini).” Dedicated to Andrés Segovia, the...

REPRINT SERIES  Grażyna Bacewicz’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor was completed in 1963 and premièred at the Warsaw Autumn Festival on 29 September 1963, with Gaspar Cassadó as soloist and the Polish Radio National Orchestra...

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...

REPRINT SERIES Maurice Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole, M. 52, is a one-act “comédie musicale” with a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on his own 1904 play. Ravel began work on the music in 1907, and the opera received its...

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...

REPRINT SERIES  George Antheil’s Symphony No. 4 (“1942”) was written between 1942 and 1943 and first performed in 1944 by Leopold Stokowski and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Subtitled simply with its year of completion, the work...

Stylistically, La Gitana captures a flamenco-tinged character through its sinuous, modal-inflected theme and rhythmic accents. The solo violin’s gypsy-style trills, double-stops, and portamenti sit atop transparent orchestral textures, balancing...

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...

REPRINT SERIES  Grażyna Bacewicz’s Akropolis is a cantata for mixed (SATB) chorus and orchestra composed in 1964 to mark the 600th anniversary of the Jagiellonian University. Setting a text by Stanisław Wyspiański, it was premiered on 10 May...