Partituras para orquesta

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...

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...

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...

Un ballo in maschera (Un baile de máscaras) es una ópera en tres actos de 1859 de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) con libreto de Antonio Somma. Basada inicialmente en el libreto de Eugène Scribe para la óp...

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...

Romanian composer, violinist, and conductor George Enescu (1881-1955) (Fr. Georges Enesco) wrote the two Roumanian (Romanian) Rhapsodies, Op. 11, in 1901. Much like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, both...

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...

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...

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...