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...

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...

Max Steiner composed one of the most beloved Hollywood scores for Casablanca (1942), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture". That same year this Suite was extracted from the main work, creating...

REPRINT SERIES  Alan Rawsthorne’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F♯ minor was composed in 1951 on commission from the Arts Council of Great Britain for the Festival of Britain and received its first performance on 17 June 1951 with Clifford Curzon...

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...

REPRINT SERIES Grażyna Bacewicz’s Variations for Orchestra, IGB 11, was composed in 1957 and premiered in 1958 at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, conducted by Jan Krenz. The work consists of a 19-bar theme followed by eight continuous variations,...

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...

REPRINT SERIES Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Six Choral Songs (To Be Sung in Time of War) was composed in 1940 as a response to the turmoil of the Second World War. Scored for unison voices (often treble or mixed children’s chorus) and orchestra,...

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...

Gerald Finzi’s Two Milton Sonnets, Op. 12 (1926–28) sets John Milton’s Sonnet XIX (“When I consider how my light is spent”) and Sonnet XXX (“How soon hath Time”) for tenor (or soprano) with piano or small...

REPRINT SERIES  Ralph Vaughan Williams’s On Christmas Night is a one‐act masque co-created in 1926 with choreographer Adolph Bolm. Loosely drawing on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, it integrates singing, dancing and mime into a...

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...

Igor Stravinsky’s Four Preludes and Fugues (1969) are his final compositions, arranging four pairs from J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier for chamber orchestra (BWV 851 & 852, 864 & 865, 870 & 871, 881 & 882). Each...

Heitor Villa-Lobos extracted Suite No. 4 “Descobrimento do Brasil” (W 380) in 1937 from his score for Humberto Mauro’s film of the same name, completing the cycle of four suites that portray Brazil’s early colonial history. he...

REPRINT SERIES  Sergei Prokofiev’s Andante, Op. 29bis is his own orchestration of the slow movement from Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29, completed in 1934. The arrangement was first heard on February 13, 1958, in Leningrad under...

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...

REPRINT SERIES  Drawing on Norwegian folk tunes, the piece opens with a lyrical, modal passage that transitions into an Allegretto featuring virtuoso figuration—double-stops, rapid string crossings and expressive portamento. Lalo balances the...