Partituras para orquesta

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pelléas et Mélisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mélisande, but becomes jealous of his hal...

Lucia di Lammermoor es un drama trágico en tres actos de Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano escribió el libreto en italiano basándose libremente en la novela histórica de Sir Walter Scott de 1819,...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the music to COSI FAN TUTTE (So do they all), his third collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, only after his contemporaty Antonio Salieri rejected t...

Tosca es una ópera melodramática en tres actos ambientada en Roma en junio de 1800, con el control de Roma por el Reino de Nápoles amenazado por la invasión napoleónica de Italia. Contiene escenas de...

La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. Piave...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1850 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

Volviendo a la forma sinfónica de 4 movimientos, Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936) completó su SINFONÍA nº 5 en si bemol mayor, Op. 55, en 1895. Estrenó la obra en el Salón de la Nobleza de San Petersbur...

Terminada originalmente en 1888, la versión original de esta gran obra difería significativamente de la versión revisada y definitiva que se ofrece aquí. Inicialmente en dos partes con cinco movimient...

Terminada originalmente en 1888, la versión original de esta gran obra difería significativamente de la versión revisada y definitiva que se ofrece aquí. Inicialmente en dos partes con cinco movimient...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) compuso su SINFONÍA nº 5 en do sostenido menor en 1901 y 1902, principalmente durante su estancia en su casa de vacaciones en Maiernigg. El compositor dirigió la primera inte...

While less known today, German composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) was a popular and respected composer during his life. Known best for his piano compositions, his most popular work is his Spanish...

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) dedicó su CONCERTO para piano nº 1 en re bemol, Op. 10, a su maestro Nikolai Tcherepnin. Lo compuso en los años 1911 y 1912, y lo estrenó en Moscú el 18 de mayo de 1912 ba...

Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) collection of five songs titled Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice), WWV 91, is more commonly known as Wesendonck Lieder after the source o...

Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) collection of five songs titled Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice), WWV 91, is more commonly known as Wesendonck Lieder after the source o...

Der Freischuetz (The Marksman), Op. 77, J.277 has come to be considered the first German Romantic opera. Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) composed Der Freischuetz between 1817 and 1821, based on Johan...

The SAINT JOHN PASSION, BWV 245, is the oldest of the surviving J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Passions, written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig. It was premiered on April 7, 1724,...

The CANTATA No. 4: CHRIST LAG IN TODES BANDEN, BWV 4, is one of the earliest church cantatas by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Bach wrote it for an application to a job opportunity at a Lutheran church in Mul...

On the score of his cantata JAUCHZET GOTT IN ALLEN LANDEN (EXULT IN GOD IN EVERY LAND), BWV 51, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) wrote "For the 15th Sunday after Trinity and at any time", indicating that he had...

Tras la derrota de Napoleón en la campaña de 1813, el patriotismo alemán ganó popularidad. Esta tendencia ejerció una gran influencia en la poesía y la música de la época. En 1814, Friedrich Treitschk...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("Las siete últimas palabras de Cristo") es uno de los dos oratorios de Théodore Dubois (1837-1924), y sigue siendo la obra coral más interpretada del compositor. Estrenada...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) began composition of his setting of the Stabat Mater text in 1876 and finally finishing the orchestral version in late 1877, though it was not published until 1881 as Op. 58...

When the American, music-loving philanthropist, Mrs. Jeannette Thurber, convinced the world-renowned Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) to be the new director of her National Conservatory of Mu...

Esta edición de la obra más famosa de George Frideric Handel fue editada por Ebenezer Prout, e incluye acompañamientos adicionales en gran parte reescritos por él. El prefacio de Prout ofrece una ampl...