Partituras para orquesta

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

Written while still a student of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky was encouraged to begin work on this piece for full orchestra in 1905. The young composer's first composition foray beyond piano, i...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) composed Capriccio Italien, Op. 45, in 1880 following a trip to Rome with his brother, Modest. Originally titled Italian Fantasia, the work incorporates the music...

EUGENE ONEGIN, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin, is Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) best-known opera. The story depicts the life of the titular Onegin, a Russian dandy who does not...

Tchaikovsky's largest symphony both in length and instrumentation, the MANFRED SYMPHONY remained unnumbered, though it was written between his 4th and 5th symphonies.  A programmatic symphony bas...

Marche Slave, Op. 31, ("Marcha eslava") se estrenó en Moscú en noviembre de 1876. Se trata de una enardecedora obra patriótica basada en temas folclóricos serbios y rusos. Chaikovski recibió el encarg...

El Cascanueces es un "ballet de hadas" en dos actos escrito por Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Basado en el cuento de E. T. A. Hoffmann de 1816, "El Cascanueces y el Rey de los Ratones", la pr...

Among the most frequently performed and well-known of P. I. Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) works, The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49 (more commonly known as the 1812 Overture) was written in 1880 to co...

Among the most frequently performed and well-known of P. I. Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) works, The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49 (more commonly known as the 1812 Overture) was written in 1880 to co...

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) tuvo por primera vez la idea de escribir una obertura para HAMLET en 1876. Doce años más tarde, el actor Lucien Guitry le pidió que escribiera música incidental pa...

The Sleeping Beauty ballet in 3 acts, which tells the story of conflicting forces of good and evil, incorporates various fairy-tale characters from the Brothers Grimm and French fairy tales. Tchaikovs...

Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) began work in 1877 and finished it the following year. Begun soon after Tchaikovsky established his relationship with long-time patroness Nadezhda von Mech, SYM...

This Mozart-inspired work, completed in January of 1877, was the first composition by Tchaikovsky for cello and orchestra. This version of Variations on a Rococo Theme, heavily edited by Wilhelm Fitze...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) dedicó originalmente su CONCERTO PARA VIOLÍN en Re, Op. 35, a Leopold Auer. El violinista húngaro concluyó que era demasiado difícil. El concierto se estrenó fina...

Captivated by the playing of famed Franz Liszt pupil Eugen d'Albert during the 1883-1884 concert season, Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) began work on Concert Fantasia. After an arduous compos...

SOUVENIR D'UN LIEU CHER (Recuerdo de un lugar querido) es un conjunto de tres piezas escritas originalmente para violín y piano en la misma época que el Concierto para violín de Chaikovski. La pieza s...

SOUVENIR D'UN LIEU CHER (Recuerdo de un lugar querido) es un conjunto de tres piezas escritas originalmente para violín y piano en la misma época que el Concierto para violín de Chaikovski. La pieza s...

La ópera LA FORZA DEL DESTINO de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) fue escrita en 1862 y estrenada en el Teatro Bolshoi Kamenny de San Petersburgo, Rusia, el 10 de noviembre de ese mismo año. Tras muchas rep...

L'Estro armonico (La inspiración armónica) es una colección de 12 conciertos de Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) para instrumentos de cuerda publicados por primera vez en 1711. El nº 11 en re menor (RV 565...

Comparado con Niccolò Paganini por su amigo Robert Schumann, Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) fue un conocido violinista virtuoso de la escuela franco-belga de mediados del siglo XIX. Aspirando a converti...

Terminada en 1848 y estrenada en 1950 en Weimar (Alemania), LOHENGRIN de Richard Wagner (1813-1883) narra la historia de un trágico romance medieval alemán en la tradición del Caballero del Cisne. Els...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) composed the symphonic poem Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 in 1870 as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, following the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. Originally...

AUFFORDERUNG ZUM TANZE (L'INVITATION A LA VALSE; INVITATION TO THE DANCE), Op. 65/ J. 260, an early example of program music by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), was originally heard in its 1819 versi...

Written in 1887 by notable leider composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Italian Serenade was originally written for string quartet and named simply Serenade in G Major. In his ongoing attempt to set the wor...