Orchestra
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ORCH91b Orchestra score
ORCH91c Orchestra parts
Duration: 14'Audio samples
La Follia -
ORCH89b Orchestra score
ORCH89c Orchestra parts
ORCH89d Study score
Duration: 10' -
ORCH81b Orchestra score
ORCH81c Orchestra parts
Duration: 9'An exciting and virtuosic showpiece composed for the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble which stems from the famous Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Giancarlo Castro D’Addona has realized in 2016 this transcription for symphony orchestra. Read more
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Grand Fanfare -
ORCH85b Orchestra score
ORCH85c Orchestra parts
Duration: 14' -
Arrangeur: Pierre-Alain Monot
ORCH83b Orchestra score
ORCH83c Orchestra parts
Duration: 30' -
ORCH61d Study score
ORCH61b Orchestra score
ORCH61c Orchestra parts
Duration: 32' Swiss Composers SeriesA notable characteristic of this symphony is the addition of a saxophone quartet, which doesn’t mean that it is a jazz work or even less a concerto in which the four saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone) would be soloists. They exist and... Read more
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I. OstinatoII. ScherzoIII. AdagioIV. Finale -
ORCH8d Study score
ORCH8b Orchestra score
ORCH8c Orchestra parts
Duration: 26' Swiss Composers SeriesThe 4th Symphony is divided into four movements. I. Lento misterioso, Allegro
The first half of the work opens with an ostinato in the celli, in which an anxious, continually syncopated six-note motif develops toward a paroxysm of violence. The... Read moreAudio samples
I. Lento MisteriosoI. AllegroII. LentoIII. Moderato MoltoIV. Prestissimo -
ORCH1d Study score
ORCH1b Orchestra score
ORCH1c Orchestra parts
Duration: 25' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Symphonie N° 3 -
ORCH2d Study score
ORCH2b Orchestra score
ORCH2c Orchestra parts
Duration: 12' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Sinfonietta -
ORCH25b Orchestra score
ORCH25c Orchestra parts
Duration: 7' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH26b Orchestra score
ORCH26c Orchestra parts
Duration: 8' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH15b Orchestra score
ORCH15c Orchestra parts
Duration: 8'30 Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH27b Orchestra score
ORCH27c Orchestra parts
Duration: 17' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH38b Orchestra score
ORCH38c Orchestra parts
ORCH38d Study score
Duration: 15'The work, subtitled "For the Freedom of Mind and Thought," follows the concerto grosso model of the Baroque Era and features a small group, consisting of three violins, viola, and cello being employed as the concertino ensemble that is contrasted... Read more
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ORCH44b Orchestra score
ORCH44c Orchestra parts
ORCH44d Study score
Duration: 6'15The title, which translates as “to shout for joy’, reflects the generally celebratory mood of this short “mini-overture”. The work opens with a solemn “fanfare” by the solo trumpet. This theme, based on a tune appropriate to the occasion, is then... Read more
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Jubilare! -
ORCH73b Orchestra score
ORCH73c Orchestra parts
Duration: 8'30This Adagio was originally composed in 1991 and revised in 2009. It was written in memory of Rayburn Wright, a former teacher of mine at the Eastman School of Music, shortly after he passed away. The music is meant to convey both the sense of loss... Read more
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Adagio -
ORCH69b Orchestra score
ORCH69c Score and parts
Duration: 21' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
I. Andante AllegroII. Andante TranquilloIII. Allegro -
ORCH39b Orchestra score
ORCH39c Orchestra parts
Duration: 7' Swiss Composers Series"I, Jeremy, am sad at heart. There are no remedies to heal my sorrow..." This is the passage from "Jeremy's Lamentations" which has, in all humility, inspired me, the composer states, and his sound portrait is indeed strongly inspired by that... Read more
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ORCH28b Orchestra score
ORCH28c Orchestra parts
Duration: 11' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH20d Study score
ORCH20b Orchestra score
ORCH20c Orchestra parts
Duration: 10' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Exil -
ORCH75b Orchestra score
ORCH75d Study score
ORCH75c Orchestra parts
Duration: 6'40Weiter is a short work for orchestra that uses a single rhythmic motif as its main impulse. This motif (a series of eighth notes followed by eighth rests) propels the piece through its various sections. The word Weiter is used in many ways in... Read more
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Weiter -
ORCH10b Orchestra score
ORCH10c Orchestra parts
ORCH10d Study score
Duration: 28' -
ORCH57b Orchestra score
ORCH57c Orchestra parts
Duration: 7' -
ORCH9b Orchestra score
ORCH9c Orchestra parts
ORCH9d Study score
Duration: 12'Audio samples
Landscapes -
ORCH3b Orchestra score
ORCH3c Orchestra parts
Duration: 11' -
ORCH13d Study score
ORCH13b Orchestra score
ORCH13c Orchestra parts
Duration: 12'Audio samples
Prologue Symphonique -
ORCH12d Study score
ORCH12b Orchestra score
ORCH12c Orchestra parts
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ORCH14d Study score
ORCH14b Orchestra score
ORCH14c Orchestra parts
Duration: 30' -
ORCH54d Study score
ORCH54b Orchestra score
ORCH54c Orchestra parts
Duration: 21'Georgi Mintchev wrote Contrasts at the request of Thomas Kalb, GMD of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), for the 2003-2004 music season. A poetic and emotional, yet virtuosic piece where the dynamic and rhythmic content covers a wide... Read more
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Contrasts -
ORCH5b Orchestra score
ORCH5c Orchestra parts
ORCH5d Study score
Duration: 15' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Musique Concertante -
ORCH6d Study score
ORCH6b Score
ORCH6c Orchestra parts
Duration: 12' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Mouvement dans l'immobile -
ORCH7b Orchestra score
ORCH7c Orchestra parts
Duration: 15'30 Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Glarus -
ORCH4d Study score
ORCH4b Orchestra score
ORCH4c Orchestra parts
Duration: 18' Swiss Composers SeriesAudio samples
Ascona -
ORCH78b Orchestra score
ORCH78c Orchestra parts
Duration: 22' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH16d Study score
ORCH16b Orchestra score
ORCH16c Orchestra parts
Duration: 9' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH42b Orchestra score
ORCH42c Orchestra parts
ORCH42d Study score
Duration: 55'Audio samples
Hyr -
ORCH48b Orchestra score
ORCH48c Orchestra parts
Duration: 11'This string orchestra work was written to the memory of the author’s great grandfather, whose name was Otto N. Thorlaksson. He was a seaman, mostly working in very harsh circumstances on the old cutter-ships in the early years of the 20th century.... Read more
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Okto November -
ORCH47d Study score
ORCH47b Orchestra score
ORCH47c Orchestra parts
Duration: 24' -
ORCH49d Study score
ORCH49b Orchestra score
ORCH49c Orchestra parts
Duration: 7'Frón means Iceland, and this work is based on fragments from Icelandic folk songs. The opening trumpet statement thus includes fragments from three of the oldest known Icelandic melodies and these are also the ones most frequently referred to in the... Read more
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ORCH46b Orchestra score
ORCH46c Orchestra parts
Duration: 11'Audio samples
Elja -
ORCH55b Orchestra score
ORCH55c Orchestra parts
ORCH55d Study score
Duration: 15' Portuguese Composers Series -
ORCH17b Orchestra score
ORCH17c Orchestra parts
Duration: 15' -
Arrangeur: Kirill Karabits
ORCH53b Orchestra score
ORCH53c Orchestra parts
Duration: 6'15This short «Sinfonia à 6» in D (Allegro - Grave - Presto) for two horns, strings and b.c. (completed and edited by Kirill Karabits) displays the technical skills and creative musical imagination of Johann Gottlieb Graun. Until 1943 the original... Read more
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ORCH70b Orchestra score
ORCH70c Orchestra parts
Duration: 9' Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH35b Orchestra score
ORCH35c Orchestra parts
Duration: 28'Audio samples
Threnody -
ORCH37b Orchestra score
ORCH37c Orchestra parts
Duration: 8' -
ORCH18b Orchestra score
ORCH18c Orchestra parts
ORCH18d Study score
Duration: 24' -
ORCH29b Orchestra score
ORCH29c Orchestra parts
Duration: 6'Audio samples
Regenesis -
ORCH21b Orchestra score
ORCH21c Orchestra parts
Duration: 35' -
ORCH22b Orchestra score
ORCH22 Orchestra parts
Duration: 17'Audio samples
L'Ultimo Cavaliere -
ORCH45b Orchestra score
ORCH45c Orchestra parts
Duration: 16' Armenian Composers SeriesThe Chamber Symphony for strings is structured in a single movement. In writing this work the composer was inspired by the complex collisions of our difficult and contradictory time. The symphony is dedicated to the memory of Aram Khatchaturyan. Read more
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ORCH67b Score
ORCH67c Parts
Duration: 6' Swiss Composers SeriesThis very melancholic piece opens with a melody made of “mourning colored” notes which pass from one instrument to another. Then the music becomes more and more luminous with the successive enrichment of the instrumentation. Read more
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ORCH68b Orchestra score
ORCH68c Orchestra parts
Duration: 6'30 Swiss Composers SeriesBirth...The beginning of an existence. Mystery. The first breath. Germs of life appear, synergies are created, networks generated. A life force develops, imposing itself jubilantly. Read more
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Naissances -
ORCH65b Orchestra score
ORCH65c Orchestra parts
Duration: 17'30 Swiss Composers SeriesAbout the movements of the suite «Le Temps» (The Time) Kronos… First I thought about a more peaceful sounding work with a title like «The Delights of Time». Then the piece changed slowly. A fast, dissonant sequence slipped into the middle of the... Read more
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Le Temps -
ORCH52b Orchestra score
ORCH52c Orchestra parts
Duration: 6' Swiss Composers SeriesThe title, with its "end of 19th c." connotation, indicates a rather contemplative and elegiac piece, in form of an arch, with an esthetic and syntax - tonal and modal - which places it slightly out of its time. Read more
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Träumerei -
ORCH56b Orchestra score
ORCH56c Orchestra parts
Duration: 21' Swiss Composers SeriesThis work is rather symptomatic of my composing manner: a string orchestra which I use in a most traditional way. No mute effect, no glissandi... The ideas, as well as the procedure of the work are classic. The first movement is an Allegro in Sonata... Read more
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I. Largamente Allegro Moderato Ma DecisoII. ScherzoIII. Adagio EspressivoIV. Vivo -
ORCH64b Orchestra score
ORCH64c Orchestra parts
Duration: 13' Swiss Composers SeriesPromenade avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau plays with excerpts of the Devin du Village (1752), instrumented, arranged and composed for strings. Played for the king, in Fontainebleau in 1752, Le Devin du Village [The Diviner of the Village] gained a... Read more
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Promenade -
ORCH30b Orchestra score
ORCH30c Orchestra parts
Duration: 6'30 Swiss Composers Series -
ORCH51b Orchestra score
ORCH51c Orchestra parts
Duration: 4'30Audio samples
Overture To A Lyric Comedy