Hawkes Pocket Scores

Commissioned by the BBC and first performed in September 2003 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, to critical acclaim. Scored for large orchestra and cast in a single, thou...

The three works included in this new study score were written by the composer in the late 1920s. They share Finzi's admiration for 17th century poetry, and also reflect his frequent practice of compos...

Completed in short score in 2006 the composer played the symphony to his son Mikolaj on the piano that summer, commenting on many details. It fell to Mikolaj to complete the orchestration following hi...

The composer states that this work is a fusion of symphonic poem and concerto for orchestra. The title refers to a figure in the Book of Revelation whose exact identity has been open to a number of in...

Scored for large orchestra The Keening was only the second of MacMillan's orchestral works, written between 1985-87 when he was a student of John Casken at the University of Durham. The composer expla...

A 20-minute work written for large orchestra and first performed in 2013. The title is a reference to the Beethoven Frieze by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, a series of frescoes inspired by the fin...

Die Symphony: 'Vigil' (1997) ist das letzte von drei miteinander verbundenen Werken, die zusammen Triduum formen, das vom London Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben wurde. Die beiden anderen Stücke...

Geschrieben im Jahr 1999 für Kammerorchester, baut diese Symphonie auf MacMillans kurzer Klaviersonate aus dem Jahr 1985 auf. Diese Sonate entstand in einem bitterkalten Winter in Ayrshire: Der Kompon...

Die Inspiration zu diesem Werk entsprang der Novelle Silence des großen japanischen Schriftstellers Shusaku Endo (1923-96). In seinem Buch stellt der Autor profunde philosophische Fragen und beschäfti...

Anders als seine ersten drei Sinfonien ist MacMillans Symphony No. 4 (2014-15) in erster Linie abstrakt. In dieser Sinfonie ist der Komponist am Wechselspiel verschiedener Arten von Materialien intere...

Einen seiner ersten Erfolge feierte James MacMillan mit seinem Percussion Concert No. 1 (1992), das den Titel Veni, Veni, Emmanuel trägt und sich mittlerweile mit hunderten von Aufführungen auf der Ko...

Den Funeral Song op.5 komponierte der junge Strawinsky als ein instrumentales Erinnerungsstück an seinen Lehrer Nikolai Rimskij-Korsakow. Da Stück verschwand nach nur einer Aufführung im Jahr 1909 und...

New edition of this hitherto unpublished 13-minute work, which was first performed in 2002 by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. The title clearly suggests a parade; but, as...

This work was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra as a companion piece to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. As Martin Anderson explains, 'Magnus Lindberg's Two Episodes attempt - perhaps for t...

This work received its first performances under the baton of Daniel Barenboim in 2017 in Berlin and London. The 23-minute score, dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, was commissioned by th...

HPS 865

HPS 860

HPS 845

HPS 871 Contents: Concerto in modo antico * Jagiellonian Triptych * Old Polish Suite * Janiewicz Divertimento.

HPS 1150 Contents: Tromba Lontana - Short Ride in a Fast Machine.

HPS 1188

HPS 1186

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