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The composer worked on this symphonic poem from January to April of 1896. The title refers to a Czech folk ballad in which a king falls in love with Domicka while riding and requests his step-mother...

Parker's first Christmas cantata was composed in 1893 just before his departure from New York to his new post as organist for Trinity Church in Boston. The text was written after scriptural accounts...

Inspired by the painting by the Swiss artist Arnold B?cklin, Rachmaninoff composed his symphonic poem in the spring of 1909, completing it while on tour in Dresden just two weeks before the premiere...

The third of the four late tone poems inspired by "Bouquet", a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromir Erben based upon Czech folklore, The Noon Witch was composed from January 11 to February 27 of...

The first of four late tone poems inspired by "Bouquet", a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromir Erben based upon Czech folklore, The Water Goblin was composed from January 6 to February 11 of 1896...

Last of the four late tone poems inspired by Bouquet, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromir Erben based upon Czech folklore, Wild Dove was composed from October 22 to November 18 of 1896 and given...

Liszt's dark paraphrase on the Gregorian chant "Dies irae" for piano and orchestra was planned as early as 1838 but actually composed between 1847 and 1853, with a revision in 1864. The work was...

Liszt composed Trois odes fun?bres betwwen 1860 and 1866, shortly in the wake of his first 12 tone poems. The third of the odes was the first to be published, as an 'epilogue' to the related tone...

Though originally composed for piano four-hands, Satie was persuaded to orchestrate these pieces for a concert staged by Jean Cocteau presented on 21 February 1920 featuring works by Milhaud,...

Dedicated to "my friends pictured within", Elgar's orchestral showpiece started life as a simple improvisation at the piano after a day of teaching violin in October of 1898. Upon playing the theme,...

Described as one of Franck's "tightest and most finished works", the Variations symphoniques of 1885 nevertheless got off to a slow start. The premiere, given in Paris on May 1, 1886 with the famous...

This new vocal score is a digitally enhanced reissue of the score prepared by the renowned English musicologist J. A. Fuller-Maitland in 1896 to coincide with the full score issued several years...

Commissioned by the eminent violinist Joseph Joachim after a Berlin meeting in April of 1879, Dvorak composed his first version between July 5 and September of the same year, even incorporating...

Premiered by the renowned violinist Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg in February of 1905, Glazunov's solo violin concerto entered the repertoire immediately, remaining popular in spite of the decline...

The final work in the revolutionary series of thirteen tone poems Liszt composed for orchestra, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) was composed in 1881-82 - late in the...