Boosey & Hawkes

The two versions of Stravinsky's Pétrouchka constitute separate and parallel incarnations of one of the cardinal masterworks of 20th-century music. Arguably the 1911 original version is the work of a...

Britannia was written in 1994 as a celebration of a major force in our musical life, the British orchestra. The work fulfils a commission from British Telecommunications plc with the Association of Br...

Commissioned by ROCHE for the 2004 Lucerne Festival as a companion piece to The Shadow of Night, this latest addition to the Hawkes Pocket Score Series takes its title from the text of the John Dowlan...

A 16-minute orchestral tribute to the city of Chicago commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation as part of the composer's residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and first performed in 2...

This work in three movements was commissioned by The Juilliard School, New York, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2005. It was first performed by the Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in...

Die 35-minütige Orchestersuite Book of Visions wurde vom Orchestre National de Belgique, dem NHK Symphony Orchestra und dem Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben und erlebte ihre Urauff...

Concert overture for orchestra, first performed in 2007 by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The Times described the five-minute piece as 'an irreverent deconstruction of th...

The Sacrifice is my second opera, written for WNO and premiered in 2007. It is based on one of the Mabinogian stories, a collection of ancient Welsh myths. It is a tale of love set amidst a civil or c...

Chorale (2001-02), for orchestra, is a kind of musical meditation on the chorale Es ist genug from Bach's cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, itself a harmonisation of J R Ahle's 1662 hymn. Nick Kimber...

Composed in 1991 this London Sinfonietta commission was first performed by them in May 1992 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Scored 'for orchestra or chamber orchestra' the instrumentation compris...

Commissioned by the BBC and first performed in September 2003 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, to critical acclaim. Scored for large orchestra and cast in a single, thou...

The three works included in this new study score were written by the composer in the late 1920s. They share Finzi's admiration for 17th century poetry, and also reflect his frequent practice of compos...

Completed in short score in 2006 the composer played the symphony to his son Mikolaj on the piano that summer, commenting on many details. It fell to Mikolaj to complete the orchestration following hi...

The composer states that this work is a fusion of symphonic poem and concerto for orchestra. The title refers to a figure in the Book of Revelation whose exact identity has been open to a number of in...

Scored for large orchestra The Keening was only the second of MacMillan's orchestral works, written between 1985-87 when he was a student of John Casken at the University of Durham. The composer expla...

A 20-minute work written for large orchestra and first performed in 2013. The title is a reference to the Beethoven Frieze by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, a series of frescoes inspired by the fin...

Die Symphony: 'Vigil' (1997) ist das letzte von drei miteinander verbundenen Werken, die zusammen Triduum formen, das vom London Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben wurde. Die beiden anderen Stücke...

Geschrieben im Jahr 1999 für Kammerorchester, baut diese Symphonie auf MacMillans kurzer Klaviersonate aus dem Jahr 1985 auf. Diese Sonate entstand in einem bitterkalten Winter in Ayrshire: Der Kompon...

Die Inspiration zu diesem Werk entsprang der Novelle Silence des großen japanischen Schriftstellers Shusaku Endo (1923-96). In seinem Buch stellt der Autor profunde philosophische Fragen und beschäfti...

Anders als seine ersten drei Sinfonien ist MacMillans Symphony No. 4 (2014-15) in erster Linie abstrakt. In dieser Sinfonie ist der Komponist am Wechselspiel verschiedener Arten von Materialien intere...