Boosey & Hawkes

The first movement begins with a short, punchy motive, which kicks off a fast, jerky solo violin theme. This is followed by a high, floating singing line, with murmuring accompaniment.The second movem...

Birtwistle's Concerto for violin and orchestra was commissioned for Christian Tetzlaff by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed at Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts by Tetzlaff and...

HPS 846

HPS 943

HPS 1172

Study Scores

Written in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Dharma at Big Sur draws influence from Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur and the electric violin playing of Tracy Silverman, the violinist...

The Four Hymns are in similar vein to the Five Mystical Songs (1911) although on a smaller and more intimate scale. Together with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis these form a succession of wo...

HPS 1236

for Orchestra

Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in 1862 and died at Grez-sur-Loing, near Paris, in 1934.Besides an enormous output of choral and instrumental music he wrote six operas, and in Act II of the thir...