REPRINT SERIES  Francesca da Rimini, Op. 25, is a “symphonic opera” in a prologue, two tableaux and an epilogue by Sergei Rachmaninoff to a Russian libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on the episode in Dante’s Inferno...

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...

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...

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...

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...

REPRINT SERIES Grażyna Bacewicz's "Concerto for Large Symphony Orchestra," catalogued as IGB 16, was composed in 1962 and premiered on September 17 of that year at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music. The performance featured...

George Gershwin’s An American in Paris is a symphonic poem that vividly captures the energy and charm of Paris through the perspective of an American traveler. Premiered in 1928, the piece blends jazz elements with classical orchestration,...

Jean Sibelius composed the incidental music for Shakespeare's "The Tempest," Op. 109, between 1925 and 1926, marking one of his final major works before his retreat from public composition. Commissioned for a production at Copenhagen's Royal Theatre, the...

Arthur Bliss's Miracle in the Gorbals is a one-act ballet that premiered in London on October 26, 1944. Set in the slums of Glasgow, the ballet tells a dramatic and symbolic story of redemption and sacrifice. The scenario was written by Michael Benthall,...

Sunset Boulevard was nominated for eleven Oscars, winning 3 of them, for Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Waxman's score for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. In 2005, Waxman’s score was listed as among the twenty-five most...

 Carmen Fantasie is a virtuoso showpiece for violin and orchestra. The piece is part of Franz Waxman's score to the 1946 movie Humoresque for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. The...

The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4 November of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated. It briefly was...

Five Tudor Portraits (1935), by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is a work scored for contralto (or mezzo-soprano), baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra. It sets several poems, or extracts from poems, by the 15th/16th-century poet John Skelton, portraying five...

Inspired by the personality, prodigious technique and musicality of the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Cello Concerto in G minor is a work of imposing scale and demanding virtuosity, but also with a rare beauty and warmth of...

The tone poem/ballet Amazonas, composed originally for orchestra and published in 1917, was transcribed for piano by Villa-Lobos himself and published in a new version in 1932. Like Uirapuru, Amazonas subtitled “Brazilian Indian ballet” first...