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 Iljitsch Tschaikowsky's (1840-1893) best-known opera. The story depicts the life of the titular Onegin, a Russian dandy who does no...

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. Tchaikovsky recibió el encar...

The orchestral Suite No. 1 from Tchaikovsky's well-known ballet, THE NUTCRACKER, includes eight movements: I. Ouverture Miniature - Allegro giusto, II. Danses Caracteristiques a) Marche, b) Danse de l...

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...

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...

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...

Les Sylphides is a ballet blanc set to the music of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) by Russian composer, teacher, and conductor Alexander Glazunov. Described as a “romantic reverie” by dance historian and...

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...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

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...

El gran compositor de DER FREISCHÜTZ, Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), escribió dos sinfonías al principio de su carrera que muestran la capacidad de escribir melodías que le serviría tan bien en su...

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...

The Cambridge Greek Play produced Aristophane's The Wasps as Trinity College, Cambridge in 1909, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was asked to compose incidental music to accompany the productio...

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...