Chamber Music

Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, composed in 1807 for a performance in Vienna , is particularly well suited for student ensembles and comes with reference score and parts.


- New additions to the woodwind quintet repertoire ...

Hector Berlioz's “Marche hongroise” also known as the “Rakoczy March” after Hungary's like-named national hero, is an orchestral version of an anonymous military march that forms part of the dramatic legend “The Damnation of Faust” (1846). ...

George Bizet’s “ L’Arlesienne ” Suite No. 1, taken from his theatre music to a stage work by Alphonse Daudet, was arranged by the composer for larger orchestra only weeks after the premiere in autumn 1872.

The suite has been ...

Everyone knows the famous clarinet glissando opening in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, but how many know that the original version was scored for two pianos and that the glissando was initially just an ascending scale?

Joachim ...

Ever since the first performance of the Peer Gynt Suite No.1 in 1876, this work has remained one of the most often performed compositions in the romantic repertoire. It was only a matter of time before other ensembles adapted the work and the ...

Leos Janácek, almost seventy years old, characterised the wind sextet he had just finished as “a kind of memory of youth” in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. The suite “Youth” was written in the summer of 1924, prompted by the ...

This four-movement „serenade“ is actually one of Mozart's most melancholy and profound compositions, completing the series of three magni?cent wind serenades he wrote in Vienna from 1781-2. Now Mozart lovers can buy the C minor Serenade in ...

The Serenade in E-flat, K.375, exists in two versions, one for two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, and another for the same forces plus two oboes, forming an octet.

From Mozart himself we know a fair amount about the occasion ...

The Serenade in E-flat, K.375, exists in two versions, one for two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, and another for the same forces plus two oboes, forming an octet.

From Mozart himself we know a fair amount about the occasion ...

The Serenade in E-flat, K.375, exists in two versions, one for two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, and another for the same forces plus two oboes, forming an octet.

From Mozart himself we know a fair amount about the occasion ...

The arrangement of Mozart's Symphony in G minor contains the complete four-movement work excellently adapted for winds. The publication contains a reference score and parts.


- New additions to the woodwind quintet repertoire ...

There is considerably controversy surrounding Mozart's Concertante K.297b for four wind instruments. Some scholars believe the original was composed for flute, oboe, bassoon and horn but the original is lost and a score discovered in 1870 uses ...

“Night on Bald Mountain” depicts a witches’ sabbath on St. John’s Day, the night between 23 and 24 June. Its sections present the infernal noise of ghostly voices, the chattering and quarrelling of witches, the appearance of ghosts, the dance ...

Ravel’s eternally charming Mother Goose Suite was originally composed for piano 4 hands between 1908 and 1910. At a later date it was orchestrated and included additional movements.

Joachim Linckelmann’s arrangement for woodwind ...

The opera “La forza del destino” (The Power of Destiny) by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was finished in 1862. A work of the composer's late period, it represents a transitional stage in Verdi's stylistic development, combining traditional elements ...