Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba for String Orchestra $295.00 REPRINT SERIES The best-known of all Benjamin’s light-music pieces, Jamaican Rumba was based on a tune he heard in the West Indies while examining there for the RCM. First composed for two pianos in...
Villa-Lobos: Suite for Strings W054 $299.95 REPRINT SERIES Composed in 1913, this Suite for Strings is divided in 3 movements: 1. Tímida: Poco andante2. Misteriosa: Andantino3. Inquieta (Air de ballet): Poco allegretto Its expressive...
Sibelius: Ett ensamt skidspår (A lonely ski trail) $219.95 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...
Vaughan Williams: Concerto Grosso $595.00 REPRINT SERIES Concerto Grosso is a work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Originally composed in 1950 for a performance by the Rural Schools Music Association conducted by Sir Adrian...
Milhaud: Symphoniette pour Cordes Op.363 $465.00 This pretty work for String Orchestra has 3 movements: 1.Animé et Vigoureux - 2.Vif et Léger - 3.Décidé et Joyeux, and lasts approximately 11 minutes.
Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra $499.95 REPRINT SERIES The Concerto for String Orchestra (1948) is commonly regarded as Grażyna Bacewicz's opus magnum and even called her "Ninth Symphony". It is unquestionably one of the foremost works of...
Finzi: Romance Op.11 $199.99 Highly passionate in character and rich in its melodic invention, Finzi’s writing here is characteristically open-hearted and approachable. From the stillness of the opening, the music unfolds,...
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète $549.99 REPRINT SERIES Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between...
Finzi: Prelude for Strings $99.95 REPRINT SERIES Finzi's Prelude for String Orchestra Op.25, was originally conceived in the 1920s as the opening movement of a (subsequently uncompleted) chamber symphony, to be entitled The Bud, the...
Prokofiev: Andante for Strings Op.50bis $199.99 REPRINT SERIES After he departed the Soviet Union in 1918, Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) spent a fair amount of time in the U.S. concertizing. On one such tour in 1930, the Library of Congress...
Finzi: Interlude for Oboe and String Orchestra Op.21 $245.00 The Interlude for oboe and strings was composed during the mid 1930s, originally for string quartet; later Finzi created an expanded instrumentation for string orchestra as an alternative. It is a...
Stravinsky - Concerto in D for Strings $450.00 REPRINT SERIES Concerto in D ("Basle") for string orchestra was composed in Hollywood between the beginning of 1946 and 8 August of the same year in response to a 1946 commission from Paul Sacher to...
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.3 $65.50 Written for strings only and somewhat melancholy in overall mood. It is based on lute songs by Besard, a piece for baroque guitar by Ludovico Roncalli, and lute pieces by Santino Garsi da Parma and...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 for String Orchestra $295.00 Score and Set of Parts (5.5.4.4.3) Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 is the only one that does not have double titles (one title based on classical music forms and the other relating to Brazil in some...
Strauss: Metamorphosen $99.95 Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen, Study for 23 Solo Strings, subtitled "In memoriam" is scored for ten violins, five violas, five cellos, and three contrabasses. The work unfolds in a single, long...
Vaughan Williams - Partita for Double String Orchestra $85.50 Based on the piece Double Trio (1938), the composer decided its music would be better-suited to a larger instrumentation. He fashioned the piece for two string orchestras of disproportionate size,...
Honegger - Symphony No.2 for Strings and Trumpet (ad lib.) H.153 $395.00 Commissioned in 1937 by Paul Sacher, it was only completed in 1941. The work is for string orchestra, except for the addition of a trumpet in the concluding chorale: "like pulling out an organ stop",...
Bartók - Divertimento for String Orchestra SZ.113 $79.95 Divertimento for String Orchestra Sz.113 BB.118 is a three-movement piece that conforms to traditional structures, respectively, of sonata form, ternary form and rondo form. It was composed in 1939...
