The Concierto received its first performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on April 15, 1982. The performers were the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who had commissioned the concerto, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jesús López-Cobos.
Together with Summer Night on the River it is one of Delius’s Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913.
Together with On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring it is one of Delius’s Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913.
Saint-Saëns dedicated the concerto to fellow composer-virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, who performed the solo part at the premiere in October 1880 in Hamburg.
A 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle “Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell.” It is based on the second movement of Purcell’s Abdelazer suite (performed by The Broadway Bach Ensemble in February, 2017).
A brilliant antiphonal brass piece by the Venetian master.
Gabrieli’s music is legendary and beloved among brass players. This is one of the most frequently played, and an early example of playing different dynamic sections against each other.
Premiered in Dresden on 4 December 1845. It is one of the most widely performed and recorded piano concertos from the romantic period.
The Firebird was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company.
Grace Williams is considered Wales’s most notable and influential female composer. Although influenced by the music of her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams, she carved out her own musical niche by incorporating elements from Welsh folk music.