Partituras para orquesta

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) composed the Symphonic Variations in E minor only two years prior to the completion of the Enigma Variations by his well-known student, Edward Elgar. It premi...

En un principio, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) pretendía que Images pour orchestre fuera una continuación de la primera serie de Images para piano solo. Sin embargo, hacia 1905, decidió orquestar las com...

Morton Gould (1913-1996), que se sentía igual de cómodo en el mundo de la música "seria" que en el de la "ligera", presentaba sus sinfonetas (una americanización del término "sinfonietta", muy parecid...

Dark Eyes is a well-known Russian romance song. The lyrics, written by Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka, were first published in 1843. The melody, to which the lyrics are set is by German-Polish compose...

The Guaracha is the Third Movement from Mr. Gould's fourth Symphonette, LATIN AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE, which is in four movements - Rhumba, Tango, Guaracha, and Conga.  The Guaracha, relatively spea...

Leroy Anderson completó cuatro obras en 1953: "Song of the Bells", "Summer Skies", "The Girl in Satin" y "Concerto in C for Piano and Orchestra". Encargó una moderna casa para él y su familia en Grass...

Programme Note from original publication - This work was first played in America by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in June, 1910, and was the result of a commission from Mr. Carl Stoeckel, to who...

La obra más larga de Ravel, con casi una hora de duración, el ballet completo en un acto Dafnis y Cloe, fue descrita por el compositor como una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonía coreográf...

AUX ÉTOILES (A LAS ESTRELLAS), compuesto en 1874, es un breve poema para orquesta del compositor francés Henri Duparc (1848-1933). Originalmente estaba destinado a una obra de tres movimientos titulad...

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) composed the beautiful Serenade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 11 in 1884, before his "creative crisis" of 1890. For a small orchestra, it was premiered in 1885, his friend and m...

Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 63, was composed in 1911, with the premiere taking place at the London Musical Festival by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Elgar conducting, on May 2...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) comenzó a trabajar en su SINFONÍA nº 4, Op. 36, en 1877 y la terminó al año siguiente. Comenzada poco después de que Tchaikovsky estableciera su relación con la m...

Written three years after his Manfred Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 was composed in 1888. Although it has been surpassed in popularity a bit over t...

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) four-act opera-ballet Mlada was originally conceived as a collaborative project with music provided by five composers: César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsk...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) escribió música para la obra de William Shakespeare "Sueño de una noche de verano" en dos ocasiones distintas. Primero escribió la obertura de concierto en Mi Mayor, Op....

The Nutcracker is a two-act “fairy ballet” written by Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893). Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the original 1892 pro...

Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five...

These Three Marches, K. 408 (K. 383e [No. 1], K. 385a [No. 2], K. 383f [No. 3]) were composed for orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1782. Instrumentation: 2.2.0.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str...

French composer Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) originally composed the ballet La tragédie de Salomé in 1907 for a commission from Jacques Rouché for American dancer Loie Fuller and the Théâtre des Arts,...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Ma mère l'Oye (Mamá Ganso) de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) se inspira en los cuentos de hadas de Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy y Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel compuso el primer movimiento,...

Ma mère l'Oye (Mamá Oca) de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) se inspira en los cuentos de hadas de Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy y Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel compuso el primer movimiento, P...