Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Flourish for Glorious John (1957) was written as a short ceremonial opener for Sir John Barbirolli to inaugurate the Hallé Orchestra’s centenary season; it is a compact fanfare-like orchestral piece lasting...

REPRINT SERIES  Arthur Honegger’s Prélude, Fugue et Postlude (H.71a) is an orchestral suite in three linked sections—Prélude, Fugue and Postlude—arranged in 1948 from material associated with his earlier Amphion...

REPRINT SERIES  Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Prelude and Fugue in C minor, IRV 65, occupies a unique place in his output as one of the few concert works directly modeled on Baroque forms. Originally conceived in 1921 as an organ study and later...

Bruno Maderna’s Music of Gaity (1969) is an orchestral suite drawn from Elizabethan keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, arranged for solo oboe, solo violin, and chamber orchestra and it exemplifies Maderna’s skill in...

REPRINT SERIES  Richard Strauss’s Sonatine No. 2 in E♭ major, TrV 291, subtitled Fröhliche Werkstatt (“Cheerful Workshop”), was composed in 1944–45 in Garmisch and first performed in March 1946 by Hermann Scherchen...

Jacques Ibert’s Suite Élisabéthaine, composed in 1942 as incidental music for Le Songe d’une nuit d’été (Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream), was published in 1945 and is structured in nine...

REPRINT SERIES  Richard Strauss’s Sonatina No. 1 in F major “From an Invalid’s Workshop”, TrV 288 (Op. 135), was composed in 1943 as one of two wind-ensemble works from his late period. Stylistically, the work combines...

REPRINT SERIES  Richard Strauss’s Duet‑Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings, and Harp, TrV 293, was completed on 16 December 1947 in Montreux and represents one of his final purely instrumental works. Scored for solo clarinet and...

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85a (1945) is the composer's own arrangement for guitar and orchestra of his 1935 solo-guitar piece “Capriccio Diabolico (Omaggio a Paganini).” Dedicated to Andrés Segovia, the...

Atterberg’s Horn Concerto in A minor, Op. 28, was composed in 1926 for the virtuoso Axel Malm and premiered in 1927 by the Stockholm Philharmonic under Adolf Wiklund with Malm as soloist. The concerto unfolds in three movements—Allegro...

Stylistically, La Gitana captures a flamenco-tinged character through its sinuous, modal-inflected theme and rhythmic accents. The solo violin’s gypsy-style trills, double-stops, and portamenti sit atop transparent orchestral textures, balancing...

REPRINT SERIES  Alan Rawsthorne’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F♯ minor was composed in 1951 on commission from the Arts Council of Great Britain for the Festival of Britain and received its first performance on 17 June 1951 with Clifford Curzon...

The Canzone a tre cori by Giovanni Gabrieli, originally composed in the early 17th century for three spatially separated choirs of instruments, was reimagined by Bruno Maderna in 1958. Maderna’s revision retains Gabrieli’s polychoral...

REPRINT SERIES Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Six Choral Songs (To Be Sung in Time of War) was composed in 1940 as a response to the turmoil of the Second World War. Scored for unison voices (often treble or mixed children’s chorus) and orchestra,...

Gerald Finzi’s Two Milton Sonnets, Op. 12 (1926–28) sets John Milton’s Sonnet XIX (“When I consider how my light is spent”) and Sonnet XXX (“How soon hath Time”) for tenor (or soprano) with piano or small...

REPRINT SERIES  Ralph Vaughan Williams’s On Christmas Night is a one‐act masque co-created in 1926 with choreographer Adolph Bolm. Loosely drawing on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, it integrates singing, dancing and mime into a...

Igor Stravinsky’s Four Preludes and Fugues (1969) are his final compositions, arranging four pairs from J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier for chamber orchestra (BWV 851 & 852, 864 & 865, 870 & 871, 881 & 882). Each...

REPRINT SERIES  Sergei Prokofiev’s Andante, Op. 29bis is his own orchestration of the slow movement from Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29, completed in 1934. The arrangement was first heard on February 13, 1958, in Leningrad under...