Matheson's Violin Concerto was co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and premiered by both orchestras. Written in three "traditional" movements (Caprice, Chaconne, Dance), the Concerto is a demanding and virtuosic composition for advanced performers. Listen to Matheson discussing the Concerto in a YouTube video, and read a review of the West Coast premiere here. We are pleased to concurrently make available the solo violin part with piano reduction. Dur.: 25'

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Urban Sprawl grew directly from the composer's months-long search for a new home. In looking over many prospects, he began to wonder about the variety of home owners and their approaches to their wildly different dwellings, resulting in this "funky, jazzy, kitschy, and hopefully fun ode," as he describes it. Dur.: 6'30"

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Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, Music Director, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Because the book is "almost all science," Stucky says, he instead chose four books by Carson (including Silent Spring) as the base for his contemplative composition. "The entire work seized the thrust of Carson’s mid-century warning about chemical pollutants, but was arresting in a more general way for me. Mr. Stucky’s appropriate pessimism here didn’t discourage as much as it engendered a cathartic response to a subject that often numbs the soul. A brilliant, if unsettling, work." (Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Dur.: c.18'

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Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, Stucky approached his Symphony with some trepidation. The very word symphony evokes centuries of meaning, an almost ultimate weight for a composer. Stucky had early on written four symphonies, all of which have since been withdrawn. Now, he determined to embrace his own history with the symphonic tradition to bring forth a new narrative.

"Now 63, Mr. Stucky is hardly the first composer to be intimidated by the great heritage of the symphony, with its expectation of a piece that involves, as Mr. Stucky sees it, well-defined formal patterns and complex developmental techniques. Yet Mr. Stucky’s Symphony is a fairly modest piece, a 20-minute, colorfully orchestrated work in four parts, played without break. The music is quite graspable, to borrow a word from Mr. Stucky’s description. ... Mr. Stucky perhaps achieved his goal of writing a graspable symphony too well. I was engrossed in the work right through, and Mr. Gilbert drew an exciting performance from the orchestra. But the music may give away its secrets too readily." (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times)

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Liebermann's Revelry is why we go to hear an orchestra! Fast and brilliant, demanding and dynamic, this is hold-your-breath excitement for large forces. Written in 1994 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Westchester Symphony and premiered in 1995, Revelry is now the featured title work on a 2012 recording by BBC Symphony Orchestra under Grant Llewellyn (Albany Records). Dur.: 7'

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Inspired by the passion and dazzle of Gustav Klimt’s celebrated painting “The Kiss,” Daniel Dorff has created a dramatic and sensual tone poem capturing the growing thrill of the painting’s young lovers. Dorff’s 14-minute work is suitable for choreography, and a favorite for Valentine’s Day programming. The composer's website offers full program notes and more. Dur.: 14'

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Roger Zare is living every young composer's dream. At a tender age, he has already been lauded by the best, and his compositions continue to earn awards. Green Flash, his first publication with Theodore Presser Company, was written in 2007 for the USC Thornton Symphony, received a BMI Student Composer award in 2007, was chosen to be read at the 2008 American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings, won the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize in 2009, and has now won the 2012 Symphony in C Young Composers' Competition. For more about Green Flash and a YouTube video of the premiere performance, see the composer's website.

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The second in a set of three Recollections by Iannaccone, Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound represents recurring dreams of a youth spent on Long Island Sound and sometimes dangerous boating expeditions. When the sea and skies seemed about to doom the crew, the clouds would part and the waves would subside. In this orchestral and tonal setting, Iannaccone makes a concious effort to bridge the large ambience of the orchestral hall with a more intimate sound. Waiting for Sunrise was selected as one of five semi-finalists in the 2001 Masterprize competition, and is recorded on the Albany label (TROY 486). Dur.: 25'

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The first of Iannaccone's Recollections series, West End Express is faster and more dazzling. "The composer made marvelous use of scoring that replicated the driving energy of the mechanical behemoth. Wheels clicking the rails juxtaposed with panoramic visual allusions of open spaces as well as dark, smothering tunnels. A sense of zipping along prevailed in Iannaccone's effective instrumental colorings. ...virile, hypnotic syncopation fused with brilliant brass." (Kalamazoo Gazette) Dur.: 35'

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On the heels of his Slalom, which has enjoyed numerous performances as a new staple for bands, Pann has created a major three-movement magnum opus, a "triptych of sound paintings," as he would describe it. My Brother's Brain encapsulates a lifetime appreciation of both uniqueness and similarity in a younger brother, through three stages of growth (child, facing demons, grace). My Brother's Brain was a joint commission by two dozen universities, which, itself, is high praise, indeed. For advanced ensembles.
Dur.: 30'

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Given the opportunity to create a concertante work for violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the spirited New Century Chamber Orchestra, violinist-turned-composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich looked to the commedia dell’arte tradition for a special theatrical program. With movements depicting the Harlequin, Columbine, and Captain characters from Italian Renaissance romantic comedies, Zwilich has created a playful, charming, and dramatic work, also adding percussion surprises for extra color in the string orchestra. For advanced players. Parts are available on rental.

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Universal Edition issues a handsome new study score of one of Szymanowski's finest works. The Symphony's foundation is a captivating Persian poem, and text is included in Polish, German, and English.

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Das Klagende Lied is based on poems written by the composer and was completed in 1880. It originally consisted of three movements which bore the following titles: Waldmärchen (A Tale from the Woods), Der Spielmann (The Minstrel), and Hochzeitsstück (Wedding Piece). The composer subjected the score to several revisions and eventually arrived at a version in which the first movement was omitted altogether, while the second and third movements lost their titles and were thoroughly reworked. This new version was published in 1899 by Weinberger and premiered under Mahler’s baton in Vienna in 1901. For advanced players.

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Universal Edition has published Gustav Mahler's letters to his publishers for the first time, providing insight into the inner workings of the composer’s mind as he worked to translate his ideas to paper. These letters provide a detailed and multi-faceted picture of the composer, ranging from contract negotiations to the discussion of strategically distributing promotional copies of his works. To hear the true voice of Mahler in this text is truly an extraordinary experience.

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For admirers of Gustav Mahler's masterpiece 8th Symphony, editor Elisabeth Kappel and the Studien zur Wertungsforschung present a compilation of essays, which discuss the great work in various contexts and approaches. Delve deep into the collective consciousness, as it reacts to Mahler's finest work. Paperback edition, 240 pages, 5½" x 8".

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Following a celebrated series of wind ensemble tone poems about national parks in the American West, Dan Welcher’s Upriver celebrates the Lewis & Clark Expedition from the Missouri River to Oregon’s Columbia Gorge, following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Welcher’s imaginative textures and inventiveness are freshly modern, evoking our American heritage, including references to “Shenandoah” and other folk songs known to have been sung on the expedition. For advanced players. Dur.: 14’

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"Sharp Objects," says Matheson, "explores strong, bracing contrasts. Loud gestures suddenly give way to quiet chords that are sonic artifacts of the louder gestures, sustaining the harmony almost like a piano’s damper pedal... [It] features several of the players in short solos, which sound against the background of shimmering string harmonies played by the other players. Eventually, the overall stillness of the piece gains in focus, leading to an energetic, if slightly abrupt, conclusion." Dur.: c.5'

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Shadows is Ellen Zwilich’s fifth piano concerto and the second concerto that Zwilich has composed for pianist Jeffrey Biegel and a consortium of many orchestras. The composer describes Shadows as a work evoking the recollection of ancestral, religious, and cultural roots in people’s constant migration. The final movement reflects the triumph of the human spirit over natural and man-made disasters. Dur.: 20’

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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Nr. 1/7 Kreuzspiel
Oboe, Bass Clarinet, 3 Percussion; Score

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Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Songs for Voice and Orchestra, Vol. 14, Book 2
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UE presents a new critical edition of Berg's Violin Concerto, which seeks to correct errors which have been incorporated in the score since its first publication. Carefully researched, this new definitive score is now the most accurate. Published in oversize (11" x 13") hardbound format. Dur.: 22'-25'

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Sublime. Arvo Pärt redefines "sublime" with his Da pacem Domine, a deceptively simple prayer for mixed chorus and orchestra. Universal Edition now presents a study score for the orchestral version, joining a growing list of arrangements of this signature Pärt work. Enjoy a wonderful performance by the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir on YouTube. Dur.: 4'-5'

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Shadows is Ellen Zwilich’s fifth piano concerto and the second concerto that Zwilich has composed for pianist Jeffrey Biegel and a consortium of many orchestras. The composer describes Shadows as a work evoking the recollection of ancestral, religious, and cultural roots in people’s constant migration. The final movement reflects the triumph of the human spirit over natural and man-made disasters. Dur.: 20’

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Published in a new oblong study score, Berio's 1968 tribute to Leonard Bernstein and the 125th Anniversary of the New York Philharmonic is a masterwork of contemporary composition. Most famously, the third movement exemplifies the concept of "meta music," in which a quote from Mahler is used to surround and encompass further quotes from several other composers. Read Berio's own discussion of Sinfonia here. Dur.: 35'

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38 years after writing his Third Symphony, Arvo Pärt returned with a Fourth, a total departure from his earlier struggles with 12-tone composition. Commissioned in part by Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered in January 2009 under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Symphony No. 4 'Los Angeles' brings "glorious" and "gorgeous" from the reviewers. "Nothing when Pärt’s music is performed can be out of place, and nothing here was. ...The symphony, on every level, was an event." (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times arts blog) See more sample pages at Universal Edition's Issuu page. Dur.: 35'

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