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Music for Orchestra – A Selection from the 20th Century

Music for Orchestra – A Selection from the 20th Century

Have you received our newest brochure featuring twentieth-century orchestral masterpieces? If not yet, please feel free to order a copy here!

We compiled a selection of lesser-known works by well-known composers, which we believe would garner success in concert halls. The brochure includes composers from the catalogues of Durand Salabert Eschig, Ricordi Milan, Berlin and London and Editio Musica Budapest. And here below, we provide links to the scores and recordings. All scores can also be viewed in our nkoda playlist.
 
If you need further information, please feel free to reach out to us to discuss these works or others in our robust catalogues.





Lili Boulanger

D'un matin de printemps (1917 – 18)
for orchestra
3.3.3.2 - 4.3.3.1 - perc - hp.cel - 16.14.12.10.8
Duration: 5'

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Concerto op. 72 (1935)
for cello and orchestra
3.3.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.2perc.xyl - cel.2hp - str
Duration: 33'

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Claude Debussy (arr. Charles Koechlin)

Khamma (1911 – 12)
for orchestra
4.4.4.4 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.2perc - cel.pf.2hp - str
Duration: 22'

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Ernő Dohnányi

Symphonic Minutes (1933)
for orchestra
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp.perc - hp.cel - str
Duration: 13'

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Henri Dutilleux

Le Loup (1953)
for orchestra
3.2.2.2 - 2.2.2.1 - timp.perc - pf.cel.hp - str
Duration: 14'

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Arthur Honegger

Rugby (1928)
for orchestra
3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - str
Duration: 8'

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André Jolivet

Cinq Danses rituelles (1940)
for orchestra
3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - 3perc - pf.cel.2hp - str
Duration: 25'

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Charles Koechlin

Les Heures persanes(1913 – 19)
for orchestra
2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp.perc - cel.hp.pf - str
Duration: 65'

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Serge Koussevitzky

Konzert für Kontrabass und Orchester (1902)
db - 2.2.2.2 - 4.0.0.0 - hp - str
Duration: 17'

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Elizabeth Maconchy

The Land (1929)
suite for orchestra after the poem
by V. Sackville-West
3.3.3.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp - hp - str
Duration: 15'

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Gian Francesco Malipiero

Quarta Sinfonia (1946)
in memoriam
3.3.3.2 - 4.3.3.1 - perc - str
Duration: 25'

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Olivier Messiaen

Réveil des Oiseaux (rev. 1988)
for piano solo & orchestra
pf - 4.3.4.3 - 2.2.0.0 - 4perc - cel - str
Duration: 22'

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Darius Milhaud

Saudades do Brazil (1921)
Suite de danses (op. 67b)
for orchestra
2.2.2.2 - 2.2.2.0 - timp.2perc - str [split]
Duration: 22'

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Ildebrando Pizzetti

Concerto dell’estate (1928)
1. Mattutino – 2. Notturno – 3. Gagliarda e Finale
for orchestra
3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.2perc - pf.2hp - str
Duration: 25'

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Francis Poulenc

Les Animaux modèles (1942)
Suite d’orchestre
3.3.4.4 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.3perc - pf.cel.2hp - str
Duration: 21'

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Sergei Prokofiev

Konzert Nr. 1 (1910 – 12)
for piano and orchestra op. 10
pf - picc.2.2.2.3 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.glock - str
Duration: 16'

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Nino Rota

Castel del Monte (1975)
Ballata per corno e orchestra
hn - 3.2.3.2 - 4.4.3.1 - perc - org.pf.hp - str
Duration: 10'

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Igor Stravinsky

Le Roi des étoiles (1911 – 12)
Cantate für Männerchor und Orchester
Chr (12T.12B) - 3.4.ca.4.4 - 8.3.3.1 - timp.drum - cel.2hp - str
Duration: 6'

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Amazonas (1917)
Poema sinfónico sobre um conto indigena
de Raul Villa-Lobos
4.3.4.4 - 8.4.3.1 - timp.3perc - pf.cel.2hp - str
Duration: 14'

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Leó Weiner

Divertimento No. 3 (1943, rev. 1949)
Impressioni ungheresi
for orchestra op. 25
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp.perc - hp - str
Duration: 14'

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Alexander Zemlinsky

Lustspiel-Ouvertüre (1894 – 95)
für großes Orchester
Critical Edition by Antony Beaumont
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - hp - str
Duration: 13'

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