English horn concerto
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A number of concerto
Concerto
A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...

s and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn)
Cor anglais
The cor anglais , or English horn , is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family....

 and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

.

English-horn concertos appeared about a century later than oboe
Oboe
The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

 solo pieces, mostly because until halfway through the 18th century different instruments (the taille de hautbois, vox humana
Vox humana
The Vox Humana is a short-resonator reed stop on the pipe organ, so named because of its supposed resemblance to the human voice. As a rule, the stop is used with a tremulant, which undulates the wind supply, causing a vibrato effect...

 and the oboe da caccia
Oboe da caccia
The oboe da caccia is a double reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family, pitched a fifth below the oboe and used primarily in the Baroque period of European classical music...

) had the role of the tenor or alto instrument in the oboe family. The modern English horn was developed from the oboe da caccia in the 1720s, probably in Silesia
Silesia
Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

. The earliest known English-horn concertos were written in the 1770s, mostly by prominent oboists of the day, such as Giuseppe Ferlendis
Giuseppe Ferlendis
Giuseppe Ferlendis was an Italian oboist and composer. In 1777, he was appointed oboist at the Court Chapel of Salzburg, with a yearly stipend of 540 florins . He died in Lisbon...

, Ignaz Malzat (and his non-oboist brother Johann Michael Malzat) and Joseph Lacher. Few of these works have survived. Among the oldest extant English-horn concertos are those by Josef Fiala (a period transcription of a piece originally for viola da gamba) and Anton Milling. It is known that Milling's concerti were performed in 1782 by the Italian oboist Giovanni Palestrina at a concert in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 .

Many solos in orchestral works were written for the English horn and a decent amount of chamber music appeared for it as well. However, few solo works with a large ensemble were written for the instrument until well into the 20th century. Since then the repertoire has expanded considerably. Of the 270+ concertos listed below only 35 predate the Second World War.

Solo concertos

Composer Title Year Accompaniment Length (min.) Publisher Record label
Raffaele d'Alessandro Serenade, op. 12 1936 strings and timpani
Timpani
Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...

8' Amadeus Pan (Qualiton)
William Alwyn
William Alwyn
William Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.-Life and music:...

Autumn Legend 1954 strings
String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...

12' Lengnick Lyrita; Chandos; Naxos
Keith Amos Princess of the peacocks 1995 strings CMA Publications
Louis Applebaum
Louis Applebaum
Louis Applebaum, was a Canadian composer, administrator, and conductor.He was born in Toronto, Ontario and studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Leo Smith and the University of Toronto with Boris Berlin, Healey Willan and Ernest MacMillan...

Five Snapshots 1999 strings
Jesús Arámbarri
Jesús Arámbarri
Jesús Arámbarri Gárate was a Spanish classical music conductor and composer native to the Basque Country.Jesús Arámbarri has been classed among the cultural treasures of the region, with Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Jesús Guridi, Luís de Pablo, Maurice Ravel, and Pablo de Sarasate...

Ofrenda a Falla 1946 strings 4' UME Naxos
Henk Badings
Henk Badings
Henk Badings was a Dutch composer.Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Badings became an orphan at an early age...

American Folks Song Suite 1975 winds
Concert band
A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, wind ensemble, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family, and percussion instrument family.A...

Peters
Carles Baguer Concerto 1801 orchestra
Matthias Bamert
Matthias Bamert
Matthias Bamert is a Swiss composer and conductor.Matthias Bamert studied music in his native Switzerland as well as in Paris and Darmstadt, falling in with the likes of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen; these associations can be detected in his own compositions from the 1970's...

Concertino 1966 strings Schirmer; Schott
Jeanne Barbillion Cortège funèbre strings
Siegfried Barchet Concertino 1973 strings Hänssler Classic
Arnold Bax
Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...

Concertante for Three Solo Instruments and Orchestra 1949 orchestra 29' Chapell Chandos
Vincenzo Benatti Concerto in F major 1790 orchestra 15' Universal
Ortwin Benninghoff Legende 2001 strings
Warren Benson
Warren Benson
Warren Benson was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion...

Recuerdo 1965 winds 16' Presser Golden Crest
Alexandre Béon Air Lointain (Poème Symphonique) 1912 orchestra Lemoine
Hans Willy Bergen Bucolica 1952 orchestra 3' Bernbach; M.M. Cole and Peters
Lorne Betts
Lorne Betts
Lorne Matheson Betts was a Canadian composer, conductor, organist, and music critic. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, many of his original scores and writings are part of the collection at the National Library of Canada...

Elegy 1949 strings CNC
Oliver Corcoran Binney Three poems 1965 strings 8'
Yohanan Boehm Concerto, op. 19 1958 orchestra IMP
Jo van den Booren Suite Dionysienne, op. 10 1964 strings 13' Donemus
Teresa Borràs i Fornell
Teresa Borràs i Fornell
Teresa Borrás Fornell was a Catalan composer, music teacher and pianist.-Biography:Borrás began her musical studies at age eight at the Liceo Conservatory in Barcelona, where she studied piano, harmony and guitar. Teachers she studied with included Molinari, Agosti and Vito Frazzi...

Concerto, op. 116 1994 strings 20' Tritó
Siegfried Borris Concertino 1949 strings Peters
Neil Bramson Concertion 2006 strings Da Capo
Colin Brumby
Colin Brumby
Colin Brumby is an Australian composer and conductor.He was born in Melbourne and studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, from which he graduated in 1957. He went to Spain to study advanced composition with Philipp Jarnach, and to London to study with Alexander Goehr...

Scena for cor anglais 1988 strings 9' Phylloscopus ABC Classics
Victor Bruns Concerto, op. 61 1978 orchestra Breitkopf
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...

Concerto—OS6.3 1988 orchestra Saga
Eurico Carrapatoso
Eurico Carrapatoso
Eurico Carrapatoso ComIH is a Portuguese composer.-Awards and honors:2006 - UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, with his O meu poemário infantil for tenor and orchestra...

Cinco peças de carácter 2005 strings
Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...

Pastoral 1988 strings marimba
Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...

Merion
André Casanova Musique concertante 1969 orchestra United Music
Romeo Cascarino
Romeo Cascarino
Romeo Cascarino was an American composer of classical music.His music is generally tonal, and his magnum opus is the opera William Penn, whose life had fascinated Cascarino since childhood...

Blades of Grass 1945 strings 7' Lyra Naxos
Frits Celis Kareol, op. 61b 1997 orchestra 8'30 Phaedra
Sergio Cervetti Duelle 1974 strings
Emmanuel Chabrier
Emmanuel Chabrier
Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music as well...

Lamento 1875 orchestra 8' Schirmer Naxos
Julius Chajes Melody and dance 1958 strings Transcontinental Archer
Brian Cherney
Brian Cherney
Brian Cherney is a Canadian composer currently residing in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Weinzweig, Samuel Dolin, and John Beckwith. In 1972 he joined Schulich School of Music of McGill University, where he has taught analysis and...

In the stillness of September 1942 1992 orchestra Doberman-Yppan Centrediscs
Brian Cherney La Princesse lointaine 2001 harp
Harp
The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

 orchestra
18' Doberman-Yppan Centrediscs
Barney Childs
Barney Childs
Barney Childs was an American composer and teacher.Born in Spokane, Washington, he taught and composed avant-garde music and literature at universities in the United States and United Kingdom.-Music:...

Concerto 1955 strings harp percussion 14' ACE
Elizabeth Clark Larghetto 1941 orchestra
Dinos Constantinides Threnos of Creon 2006 strings Magni
Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings , mostly known professionally as Robert Cummings but sometimes as Bob Cummings, was an American film and television actor....

Concerto 2006 orchestra
Arthur Cunningham
Arthur Cunningham
Arthur Cunningham was an American composer.-Biography:Cunningham began writing music at the age of 12 to be performed with his jazz band. He attended Fisk University , Juilliard, and Columbia University's Teachers College, attaining his Master's in 1957...

Dim du mim 1969 orchestra Presser
Michael Daugherty
Michael Daugherty
Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...

Spaghetti western 1998 orchestra 21' Peer Music Equilibrium
Gion Antoni Derungs Elegia, op. 131/a 1993 harp strings Pizzicato
David Diamond
David Diamond (composer)
David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...

Elegy in memory of William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...

 (No. 1 of Elegies for flute, EH, and string orch.)
1963 strings 9' Peer Music
Igor Dibak Altayan Nocturne, op. 30 1984 strings percussion
Caspar Diethelm Concerto, op. 37 1963 harp strings
Gerd Domhardt
Gerd Domhardt
Gerd Domhardt was a German composer.Domhardt grew up in Schleusingerneundorf. He studied music education, German studies and musicology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1963 to 1968...

Orpheus 1994 strings
Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

Concertino in G major, In. 608 1816 orchestra 11' Peters; Litolff 8+ recordings
Will Eisma Indian summer 1981 orchestra Donemus
Roderick Elms Il Cygnet 2003 orchestra 4' Dutton
Eberhard Eyser Girondelle 1995 strings SMIC
Giuseppe Ferlendis
Giuseppe Ferlendis
Giuseppe Ferlendis was an Italian oboist and composer. In 1777, he was appointed oboist at the Court Chapel of Salzburg, with a yearly stipend of 540 florins . He died in Lisbon...

Concerto in C 1790 orchestra KrausHaus
George Fiala Introduction et fugato 1961 strings
Josef Fiala
Josef Fiala
Josef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...

Concerto in E-flat 1780 orchestra 12' Cesky Hudebni Fond Philips
Juraj Filas
Juraj Filas
Juraj Filas is a Slovak composer.Juraj Filas is considered one of the most important contemporary composers...

Ora pro nobis, Fantaisie concertante 2000 orchestra Bim Editions
Ernst Fischer
Ernst Fischer (composer)
Ernst Fischer was a German keyboardist and composer of light music both for piano and for orchestra. He became well-known to radio listeners all over the world from the 1930s to 1960s. Although he wrote numerous piano pieces, perhaps his most famous work is the orchestral suite, Südlich der Alpen...

First piece of “Drei Stücke” > Idylle 1948 orchestra 4' Robert Forberg
Anton Fladt Concertino 1810 orchestra Befoco
Bjørn Fongaard
Bjørn Fongaard
Bjørn Fongaard was a Norwegian composer, guitarist, and teacher. In addition to being concerned with microtonal and electronic music, he was perhaps the first to use the prepared guitar....

Concerto, op. 120, No. 7 1976 orchestra 21' NMIC
Matt Fossa Festive Dances 2006 strings timpany
Tommy Fowler
Tommy Fowler
Thomas "Tommy" Fowler was an English footballer who played 17 seasons for Northampton Town as a left-winger, and is the club's all-time appearance record holder, having played 521 league games for the club, and 585 first-team games in all competitions.A native of Prescot, Lancashire, Fowler began...

Concerto 1995 orchestra
Luca Francesconi Plot in fiction 1986 orchestra 9' Ricordi Metier; Attaca(2x); Megadisc
Luca Francesconi Secondo Concerto 1991 orchestra 14' Ricordi BVHaast
Isadore Freed
Isadore Freed
Isadore Freed was a Jewish composer of Belarusian birth.-Biography:Born in Brest-Litovsk, now Brest, Belarus, Freed's family emigrated to the United States when Freed was three years old and settled in Philadelphia, where his father owned a music store...

Concertino 1953 orchestra
Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life....

Concertante No.1, op. 13 1950 strings 13' Schott
Eugenia Frothingham Soliloquy 1974 orchestra
Kenneth Fuchs
Kenneth Fuchs
Kenneth Fuchs is an American composer, conductor, and educator. He currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut ....

Eventide 1985 orchestra 21' Naxos
Peter Paul Fuchs
Peter Paul Fuchs
Peter Paul Fuchs was an Austrian-born conductor and composer, best known for his conducting appointments with American orchestras and for his teaching. He was also a prolific composer although little of his music survives in performance...

Fantasy 1974 strings 12' Belwin & Mills
Peter Paul Fuchs Partita concertante, op. 43 1981 strings 10'
Anis Fuleihan
Anis Fuleihan
Anis Fuleihan was a Cypriot-born American composer, conductor and pianist.A native of Kyrenia, Fuleihan belongs to a Christian Lebanese family; he attended the English School in that town before coming to the United States in 1915...

Le cor anglais s'amuse 1969 orchestra
Raphael Fusco Capriccio Concertante 2007 orchestra
Kenji Fusé
Kenji Fusé
Kenji Fusé is a Canadian violist and composer living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He currently holds the position of principal viola with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra...

Elegy 1998 strings
John Linton Gardner The Last Prelude, op. 247 2003 strings MS
René Gerber Concertino 1976 orchestra 22' Gallo
Timothy Goplerud Concerto 2001 orchestra
Ursula Görsch Konzertstuck 1988 orchestra
Gabriel Ian Gould Watercolors 1998 orchestra 12' Albany
Matthias Grimminger Konzert 1995 orchestra Artivo
Richard Gross Interlude 1952 strings ACFE
Urho Hallaste Lyyrillinen sarja (Lyric Suite) 1962 strings 14' FMIC
Joseph Hallman Divine Discontent 2007 strings harp percussion Hallman
Ted Hansen Contrasts 1980 strings 25' Seesaw
A. Oscar Haugland Concertino 1996 orchestra TrevCo
Nico Hermans Ode 1985 strings Donemus
Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...

Soliloquy 1989 strings Lawdon
Edward Burlingame Hill
Edward Burlingame Hill
Edward Burlingame Hill was an American composer.After graduating from Harvard University in 1894, Hill studied music in Boston with John Knowles Paine, Frederick Field Bullard, Margaret Ruthven Lang, and George Elbridge Whiting, and in Paris with Charles Marie Widor...

Music, op. 50 1943 orchestra
Sydney Phillip Hodkinson The Edge of the Old One 1977 strings percussion 26' Presser New World
Bernard Hoffer
Bernard Hoffer
Bernard Hoffer is an American composer who was born in Switzerland and conductor who has created original music for a number of different films, television series, and commercials. He has also conducted several musical shows, such as the ballets A Boston Cinderella! and Ma Goose...

Concerto 1989 orchestra
Anders Hultqvist Variation n.31: concerto 1993 orchestra SMIC
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...

Rhapsody 1948 strings 9' Steiner & Bell; Galaxy Golden Crest
Stanislav Jelínek Partita strings
Ivo Jirasek Podvecerni hudba 1985 strings
Joseph Jongen
Joseph Jongen
Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.-Biography:Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years...

Méditation op. 21 1901 orchestra
Joseph Kaminski Variations on an Israeli theme 1958 strings Israeli Music Institute
Maurice Karkoff Lieder ohne Worte: Stimmungsbilder, op. 188 1991 orchestra SMIC
Elena Kats-Chernin
Elena Kats-Chernin
Elena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:...

Champagne in a Teapot 1997 orchestra Boosey & Hawks
Ulysses Kay
Ulysses Kay
Ulysses Simpson Kay was an African American composer. His music is mostly neoclassical in style....

Pietà 1950 strings 7' Pembroke
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio...

What an English horn player thinks 2006 orchestra
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aaron Jay Kernis is an American composer and professor at the Yale School of Music.-Biography:Aaron Jay Kernis is Jewish, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University .,Notable works include the...

Colored Field 1994 orchestra 41' Schirmer Argo
Uuno Klami
Uuno Klami
Uuno Klami was a Finnish composer. He was born in Virolahti. Many of his works are related to the Kalevala. He was also influenced by French music, in particularly by Maurice Ravel and the group Les Six...

Intermezzo 1937 orchestra 4' FMIC Alba
Erland von Koch
Erland von Koch
Erland von Koch was a Swedish composer.-Life and career:Born in Stockholm as the son of composer Sigurd von Koch , Erland von Koch studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1931 to 1935 and subsequently passed the advanced choirmaster and organist examinations...

Fantasi över en svensk vallåt 1975 strings SMIC
Erland von Koch Rondo 1983 strings WarnerCh
Jan Koetsier
Jan Koetsier
Jan Koetsier was a Dutch composer and conductor.In 1950, Koetsier became the first Kapellmeister of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, he wrote chamber music, and orchestral and choral works, as well as the opera Frans Hals...

Vision pastorale, op. 15/1 1937 strings Donemus
Karl Michael Komma Elegie und Scherzo 1998 orchestra 12’
Leslie Kondorossy Serenade, op. 11 1946 orchestra
Marek Kopelent
Marek Kopelent
Marek Kopelent is a renowned Czech contemporary composer, who is considered to be at the forefront of the "New Music" movement.-Biography:Kopelent was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 28 April 1932...

Concertino 1984 orchestra 19’ Breitkopf und Härtel Praga
Karl-Heinz Köper Der Schwan von Pesaro 1979 orchestra 12' Köper Verlag
William Kraft
William Kraft
William Kraft is a composer, conductor, teacher, and percussionist.-Undergrad and Graduate School Years :...

Concerto 2002 orchestra 20’ Presser
Bernhard Krol Serenata amorosa, op. 57 1972 mandolin orchestra
Mandolin orchestra
A mandolin orchestra is an orchestra consisting primarily of instruments from the mandolin family of instruments, such as the mandolin, mandola, mandocello and mando-bass or mandolon...

Trekel
Bernhard Krol Consolazione concerto, op. 70 1980 strings Bote & Bock
Herbert Küster Bukolische serenade & Notturno strings Bosworth
Oddvar S. Kvam Elegy, op. 8 1959 strings timpany 7' NMIC
Otomar Kvěch
Otomar Kvěch
-Biography:Kvěch was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His father was a sound engineer with Czechoslovak Radio, and later held technical jobs in various industrial companies. Kvěch's mother was shop-assistant.In 1955 he had his first lessons in piano...

Cassandra and the Trojan Horse 2004 orchestra 10' NMIC
Harold Laudenslager Elegy (In memoriam) 1959 strings timpany US-Wc
Aubert Lemeland L'automne et ses envols d'étourneaux, op. 145 1990 harp strings 12' Billaudot Skarbo
Dimitrios Levidis
Dimitrios Levidis
Dimitrios Levidis was a Greek composer, later naturalized French .He descends from an aristocratic family with Byzantine roots in Constantinople.Levidis studied in Athens, Lausanne and Munich...

Divertissement, op. 25 1911 orchestra Durdilly-Hayet
Gerald Levinson
Gerald Levinson
Gerald Levinson is an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:At university, he studied with George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and George Rochberg. After college, Levinson went to study composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory...

From Erebus and black night 1979 orchestra Philharmusic
Ivana Loudova
Ivana Loudová
Ivana Loudová is a Czech composer.Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil...

Luminous Voice 1985 orchestra C F Peters
James MacMillan The World's Ransoming 1996 orchestra 22' LSO;Bis
Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna was an Italian conductor and composer. For the last ten years of his life he lived in Germany and eventually became a citizen of that country.-Biography:...

Concerto n.1 1962 orchestra 20' Bruzzichelli BVHaast; Col Legno
Bruno Maderna Concerto n.3 1973 orchestra 17' Ricordi BVHaast; Col Legno
Johann Michael Malzat Concerto in E-flat 1785 orchestra
Johann Michael Malzat Concerto in F 1785 orchestra
Fritz Mareczek Sommerabend am Berg 1956 orchestra Gerig; Peters
John Marvin
John Marvin
John Marvin was an American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal in the Finn class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.-References:...

Concerto 2006 orchestra Fish Creek
Nicholas Maw
Nicholas Maw
John Nicholas Maw was a British composer.-Biography:Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14...

Concerto 2005 orchestra 20' Faber
Hardy Mertens Tone poem "Queen of Sheba", op. 125 1984 winds
Anton Milling Concerto in B-flat 1780 strings Molinari
Walter Mourant Elm St, Fairbury, Illinois 1954 strings 7' ACA
Alexandros Mouzas
Alexandros Mouzas
Alexandros Mouzas is a Greek composer. He studied composition with Theodore Antoniou, advanced theory with Haris Xanthoudakis and electronic music with Dimitris Kamarotos....

Monologue 2001 orchestra 13' Naxos
Bernhard Eduard Müller Abendempfindung im Gebirge, op. 12 1880 orchestra Merseburger
Hans Müller-Talamona Ballata 1989 orchestra
Vazgen Muradian Concerto, op. 80 1993 orchestra
Gösta Nystroem
Gösta Nystroem
Gösta Nystroem was a Swedish composer.Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge near Stockholm, at the time a small village but nowadays a suburban district. His father was a headmaster and an...

Ett litet intermezzo 1937 strings SMIC
Leroy Osmon A Lonely Moment Wakens 2005 harp strings RBC
Ian Parrott
Ian Parrott
Ian Parrott , who retired from the Gregynog Chair of Music at Aberystwyth in 1983, is a prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music. His distinctions include the first prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society for his symphonic poem Luxor, and commissions by the BBC and Yale University, and for...

Concerto 1954 orchestra Novello
Gustaf Paulson Concerto nr 1, op. 99 1958 strings timpany SMIC
Gustaf Paulson Concerto nr 2, op. 103 1959 strings SMIC
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

Adagietto from the "Paradise Lost" 1979 strings 5' MS Dux
Alain Perron Double éclat 1992 orchestra 8' Doberman Vienna Modern Masters
Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...

Concerto, op. 137 1977 strings 24' Elkan Grenadilla; New World
Bryony Phillips Child birth 1949 orchestra
Astor Piazolla Tanti anni prima 1984 orchestra 5' 8+ records
Giuseppe Pilotti Konzertstuck in F http://www.musicediting.de/BME/Images/Josef%20Haydn%20-%20LP%20Inhalt.pdf 1806 orchestra Berliner Torofon
Walter Piston
Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....

Fantasy 1952 harp strings 9' AMP Capriccio; Delos; Naxos
Juan Bautista Plaza
Juan Bautista Plaza
Juan Bautista Plaza Alfonso was a classical composer. He began studies in medicine at the Central University of Venezuela but, with time, left in order to dedicate himself to music. His first teacher was Jesus Maria Suárez. He studied in Rome from 1920 and 1923 and obtained the title of...

Elegía 1923 strings
David L. Post Concerto 1999 orchestra 19' MMC (2x)
Archibald James Potter Madra Líath na Mara (Grey Dog of the Sea) http://www.cmc.ie/composers/pdfs/104.pdf 1977 orchestra
Mel Powell
Mel Powell
Mel Powell was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music.Mel Epstein was born to Russian Jewish parents, Milton Epstein and Mildred Mark Epstein, and began playing piano as a child. He performed jazz professionally in New York City as a teenager...

Cantilena concertante 1948 orchestra Schirmer
Alexander Radvilovitch Concerto 1986 orchestra
Anton Reicha
Anton Reicha
Anton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, Reicha is now best remembered for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher – his pupils included Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz...

Scène (Recitative and Rondo) 1811 orchestra McGinnis & Marx; Amadeus Philips
Alan Ridout
Alan Ridout
-Life:Born at West Wickham, Greater London, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal College of Music, London with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob...

Concertino 1979 strings Emerson Wirripang
Richard Rijnvos
Richard Rijnvos
-Education and influences:Rijnvos studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian Ferneyhough.He received a DAAD scholarship and attended a postgraduate course at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg....

Riflesso sull'acqua http://www.richardrijnvos.com/works/orchestra/no41/riflesso_sull_acqua.htm 2007 orchestra 15'
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

Concerto 1992 orchestra 23' Boosey & Hawkes New World
Ronald Roseman Concertion (or Chanson) 1983 strings 14' ACE
Arnold Rosner
Arnold Rosner
Arnold Rosner is an American composer of classical music.Rosner, of Jewish descent, got his training at State University of New York at Buffalo, New York; according to his own account he learned nothing there. Rosner took his own path and composes in the style of Romanticism, traditionally...

Five meditations, op. 36 1967 harp strings 18' Laurel
Arne Running Concertino, op. 4 http://www.arnerunning.com/ehorch.html 1982 strings 18' Shawnee CRI
Marjorie M. Rusche Concerto 1974 orchestra
Josef Rut Concerto 1983 strings 15'
Herman Sandby Romance 1950 harp strings Skandinavisk
François Sarhan Cinq pièces: "Études pour la Fleur inverse“ 2004 orchestra 12'
Josef Schelb Concerto 1970 strings 19' Antes
Harold Schiffman Chamber Concerto 1986 orchestra 17' North/South
Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz Abendländisches Lied http://www.wolfgangandreasschultz.de/abldlied.htm 1989 orchestra 18' Astoria
José Serebrier
José Serebrier
José Serebrier is a Uruguayan conductor and composer. He married American soprano Carole Farley in 1969.- Youth :Serebrier was born in Montevideo, and first conducted an orchestra at the age of eleven, while at school. The school orchestra toured the country, which meant he was able to notch up...

Casi un Tango 2002 strings 6' BIS
Larry Shackley Concerto 2006 orchestra
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...

The Swan of Tuonela, op. 22/3 1893 orchestra 9' Doblinger 125+ records
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Stanisław Skrowaczewski is an internationally known classical conductor and composer. He was born in Lvov and became best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra....

Concerto 1969 orchestra 18' Schirmer Desto; Phoenix
Vilnis Šmīdbergs Concerto Symphony 1983 strings 18' Musica Baltica
Hale Smith
Hale Smith
Hale Smith was an American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor. He was one of the most notable African American composers of the 20th century....

Recitative and Aria 1995 winds
Robert Edward Smith Concerto 2008 orchestra
Vladimír Soukup Sonata 1966 strings piano
Simeon Stafford
Simeon Stafford
Simeon Stafford is a British artist known mainly for his colourful paintings of Northern life and the South Coast of England. Born in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, in 1956, his work is influenced by L.S. Lowry, whom he met the age of 14 and Alan Lowndes...

Andante 2006 orchestra Da Capo
Jack Stamp
Jack Stamp
Jack Stamp is a highly regarded North American Wind Ensemble conductor and composer.He has nearly sixty compositions available from Neil A Kjos Music Company, including the extremely popular Gavorkna Fanfare, which was dedicated to Eugene Corporon...

Elegy 1990 winds 6' Klavier
Christopher Stanichar Poem 2005 strings Trevco
Hans Steinmetz Liebesruf eines Faun 1954 orchestra Forberg; Trevco
David Stock
David Stock
David Frederick Stock is an American composer and conductor.Stock is a longtime resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he serves as a professor of composition and as the conductor of the Contemporary Ensemble at Duquesne University...

Evensong 1985 winds 9' Peters
Wolfgang Stockmeier Sonata 1969 strings Möseler
Jan Stoeckart Suite Pastorale 1975 harp strings 9' Orlando
Allan Burrage Stout Intermezzo, op. 4 1955 strings celesta
Celesta
The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...

 tom-tom
Tom-tom drum
A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snare.Although "tom-tom" is the British term for a child's toy drum, the name came originally from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala; the tom-tom itself comes from Asian or Native American cultures...

Peters
Otto Strobl Musik 1994 orchestra 10'
Tomas Svoboda Chorale from 15th Century, op. 52f 1993 strings 4'
Keith Templeman Concerto 2006 orchestra
Johannes Paul Thilman
Johannes Paul Thilman
Johannes Paul Thilman was a German composer.- Life :Thilman, who actually wanted to become a teacher, encountered music at the age of 18 and taught himself initially. After a private lesson with Paul Hindemith and Hermann Scherchen, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory in 1929 and studied...

Orpheus 1969 orchestra Peters
John Thow
John Thow
John Holland Thow was an American music composer. Thow produced an extensive and diverse body of work comprising solo, chamber, vocal, choral, operatic and orchestral repertoire....

Bellini Sky 2005 orchestra 20'
Roger Trefousse Column 1979 strings 10'
Paul Turok Canzone Concertante, op. 57 1980 orchestra 13’ Schirmer
Paul Turok Concerto, op. 73 1985 strings 15’ Fischer
Pēteris Vasks
Peteris Vasks
Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several...

Concerto 1989 orchestra 21’ Schott Wergo; Conifer; RCA
Giulio Viozzi
Giulio Viozzi
Giulio Viozzi was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic. He was a pupil of Antonio Illersberg, and took his diploma in piano playing in 1931. Among his compositions are numerous operas, ballets, and symphonic works, as well as some chamber music and songs.-Reference:* at...

Arioso e burlesca 1994 strings Pizzicato
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux
-Biography:Berthe di Vito-Delvaux was born in Angleur, Belgium. She studied theory with Désiré Duysens, harmony with Louis Lavoye and piano with Jeanne House at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège, and composition under Léon Jongen at the Brussels Royal Academy of Music.She married at eighteen, but...

Piece Concertante, op. 105 1965 orchestra 9’
Henk de Vlieger Concerto 1992 orchestra 20’
Lodewijk de Vocht Herderswijze ("Shepherd's tune") 1908 strings
Gustave Vogt Adagio 1830 orchestra F-Pn 16.683
Gustave Vogt Prière de Zingarelli, Lettre A http://www.idrs.org/scores/Lehrer/DRArch/27VogtZingarelli.html 1835 orchestra Richault
Zbynek Vostrak
Zbynek Vostrák
Zbyněk Vostřák was a prominent Czech composer of New Music.-Life:He studied composition privately with Rudolf Karel and was a conducting student of Pavel Dědeček in Prague. From 1939 to 1943 he was a member of the Prague Radio Orchestra. Vostřák held many jobs, including pedagogical jobs and...

Kristaly (Crystals), op. 65 1983 strings percussion 13'
Alarich Wallner Konzert 1971 orchestra
Fried Walter Traunsee 1957 strings harp glockenspiel
Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...

Guy Warrack
Guy Warrack
Guy Warrack was Scottish composer and conductor. From 1925-1935 he taught on the faculty of the Royal College of Music. From 1935-1946 he was principal conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and from 1948-1951 he was conductor for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet...

Lullaby 1950 orchestra 6' Novello
John Weinzweig
John Weinzweig
John Weinzweig, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian composer of classical music.Born in Toronto, Weinzweig went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, and studied music at the university. In 1937, he left for the United States to study under Bernard Rogers...

Divertimento n.11 1990 strings 13' CMC CMC
Elliot Weisgarber Autumnal Music 1973 strings 15' CMC
Joseph Pollard White Concerto 2006 orchestra
Michel Wiblé Nocturne 1946 harp orchestra
Michel Wiblé Ballade 1955 orchestra
Michel Wiblé Rapsodia 1962 strings percussion
Peter Wiegold Earth, receive an honoured guest 2003 strings 18'
Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder was an American composer.-Biography:...

Air 1944 strings 4' USA Sony; Newport
Robert Wittinger Consonante, op. 5 1965 orchestra
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...

Italian serenade 1892 orchestra 8'
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna...

Concertino in A-flat, op. 34 1947 orchestra 27’ Leuckart; Peters CPO; Koch; Tactus (2x)
Pavel Zemek Serenade 2004 orchestra
Richard Zettler Concerto 1966 winds

Double and triple concertos

Composer Title Year Other soloist(s) Accompaniment Length (min.) Publisher Record label
Benjamin Ashkenazy Izkor, in memoriam Glen Gould, op. 9 1986 piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

orchestra Donemus
Robert George Barrow Sinfonia concertante trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

, double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

orchestra
Stefano Bellon Alfabeto deserto 2006 flute
Western concert flute
The Western concert flute is a transverse woodwind instrument made of metal or wood. It is the most common variant of the flute. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist, flutist, or flute player....

orchestra
Michael Berkeley
Michael Berkeley
Michael Berkeley is a British composer and broadcaster on music.-Early life:His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley...

Tristessa 2004 viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

orchestra 22' OUP Chandos
Victor Bruns Concerto, op. 74 1982 flute strings, percussion Breitkopf
Diana Burrell
Diana Burrell
Diana Burrell is an English composer.-Life and career:She was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School for Girls before studying music at Cambridge University. She began her career as a viola player, but soon became well known for her compositions and became a full-time composer.Her first...

Dunkelhvide Månestråler 1996 contralto
Contralto
Contralto is the deepest female classical singing voice, with the lowest tessitura, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. It typically ranges between the F below middle C to the second G above middle C , although at the extremes some voices can reach the E below middle C or the second B above...

orchestra UMP
Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....

Ave Maria: Offertorium 1816 soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

orchestra 5' Fentone; Kalmus 9+ recordings
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

Quiet City
Quiet City (music)
Quiet City is a well-known composition for trumpet, cor anglais, and string orchestra by Aaron Copland.In 1940, Copland wrote incidental music for the play Quiet City by Irwin Shaw. The next year he knitted some of it into a ten-minute piece composition designed to be performed independently of the...

1940 trumpet strings 10' Boosey & Hawks 46+ recordings
Jan van Dijk Suite pastorale, op. 199 1953 oboe orchestra Donemus
Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...

Holly 1990 oboe, oboe d'amore
Oboe d'amore
The oboe d'amore , less commonly oboe d'amour, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano of the oboe family, between the oboe itself and the cor...

orchestra Ricordi
Antal Dorati
Antal Doráti
Antal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...

Trittico 1985 oboe, oboe d'amore orchestra Decca
Johannes Driessler
Johannes Driessler
Johannes Driessler was a German composer, organist, and lecturer.Driessler studied composition and organ in Cologne at the Musikhochschule from 1939 to 1940. In November 1940, Driessler enlisted in the military; in 1944 he married Gertrude Ledermann...

Concerto da camera I, op. 51 1962 flute, violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

strings Boosey & Hawks
Roderick Elms Cygncopations - Reverie et Danse 2003 vibraphone
Vibraphone
The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

orchestra 7' Dutton
Harold Farberman
Harold Farberman
Harold Farberman is an American conductor, composer, and percussionist.-Biography:Farberman studied percussion at Juilliard and composition at the New England Conservatory and at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland...

Shapings 1983 percussion (2) strings Cortelu
Josef Fiala
Josef Fiala
Josef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...

Concertante in B flat 1780 clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

orchestra 20' Musica Rara Arte Nova
Eugene Goossens
Eugène Aynsley Goossens
Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.-Biography:He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens and the grandson of the conductor Eugène Goossens...

Concert piece op.65 1958 2 harps orchestra Mills ABC
Percy Grainger
Percy Grainger
George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...

Colleen Dhas (The Valley Lay Smiling) 1904 flute, guitar strings 4' Bardic Cala; Chandos; Koch
Jozef Gresak Concertino pastorale 1965 oboe, horn
Horn (instrument)
The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....

orchestra
Gary Hayes
Gary Hayes
Gary Hayes is a former defensive back in the National Football League. He played three seasons with the Green Bay Packers.-References:...

Serenade 1984 trumpet strings
Harald Heilmann Gulbenkian-Concerto 1974 trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

orchestra FGC
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...

Concerto da Camera 1948 flute strings 17' Salabert 12+ recordings
Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

Anahid op.57 1944 flute, trumpet strings, percussion 14' Peters Crystal
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...

The Rainbow 1914 flute strings, piano 2' Peer Music EMI, Sony, Unicorn Kanchana
Milko Kelemen
Milko Kelemen
Milko Kelemen is a Croatian composer.- Life :Milko Kelemen studied under Stjepan Šulek in Zagreb, under Olivier Messiaen in Paris and Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg amongst others....

Interplay 1998 oboe, oboe d'amore orchestra Sikorski
Miklos Kocsar
Miklós Kocsár
Miklós Kocsár is a Hungarian composer. He was born in Debrecen, Hungary, and studied composition at the Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc Farkas, graduating in 1959. After completing his studies, he took a position in 1972 as Professor at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, teaching...

Episodi 1982 oboe strings 15' Editio Musica Hungaroton
Karl Heinz Köper Concertino Tricolore 1974 bass clarinet
Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...

, bassoon
Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...

strings 12' Köper
David I. Krivitsky Double concerto 1989 piccolo trumpet
Piccolo trumpet
The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...

strings
Riccardo Malipiero
Riccardo Malipiero
Riccardo Malipiero was an Italian composer, pianist, and music educator. He was awarded the gold medal by the city of Milan in 1977 and by the city of Varese in 1984....

Composizione concertata 1982 oboe, oboe d'amore strings 14' Suvini Zerboni
Ignaz? Malzat Arietta e rondo 1792 English horn orchestra
Ignaz? Malzat Variazione e cantabile 1799 bassoon orchestra
Clark McAlister Elegia para Quijote y Quijana 1996 double bass winds 21' Maecenas Albany
Louis Moyse
Louis Moyse
Louis Moyse was a famous French flute player and composer. He was the son of influential French flutist Marcel Moyse. He was a co-founder of the Vermont Marlboro Music Festival and was a teacher to top flutists all over the world. He died of heart failure at age 94.Louis Moyse was born in...

Marlborian concerto No. 2 1969 flute orchestra
Knut Nystedt
Knut Nystedt
Knut Nystedt is an orchestral and choral composer.Nystedt was born in Kristiania , Norway, and grew up in a Christian home where hymns and classical music were an important part of everyday life. His major compositions for choir and vocal soloists are mainly based on texts from the Bible or sacred...

Concertino, op. 29 1952 clarinet strings 19' NMIC Norsk Komponist Forening
Alessio Prati Misero pargoletto (aria) 1786 alto
Alto
Alto is a musical term, derived from the Latin word altus, meaning "high" in Italian, that has several possible interpretations.When designating instruments, "alto" frequently refers to a member of an instrumental family that has the second highest range, below that of the treble or soprano. Hence,...

orchestra
André Previn
André Previn
André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

Reflections 1981 cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

orchestra 13' Chester Angel
Augusto B. Rattenbach Doppio concerto 1969 clarinet orchestra
João Guilherme Ripper
João Guilherme Ripper
João Guilherme Ripper is a Brazilian composer and conductor.Ripper studied composition at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His compositions include art songs and many works for piano....

Abertura Concertante 1999 oboe orchestra
Irving Robbin Concerto for oboes and strings 1983 oboe, oboe d'amore strings
Alec Roth Departure of the Queen of Sheba 1999 oboe strings
Helmut Sadler Dialog-Szenen oboe strings 20' Latzina
Nicola Scardicchio Kemit, canti e danze del giovane Horus 2002 soprano, viola orchestra Latzina
Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss composer and conductor.He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas and instrumental compositions including two string quartets and...

Serenade, op. 27 1930 oboe strings 5' Breitkopf & Härtel CPO
Max Schubel
Max Schubel
Max Schubel is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is best known for being the founder and owner of Opus One records, a company dedicated to the recording of new music....

Elation "Uniesienie" 2002 bariton
Bariton
Bariton may refer to:* Baryton, a string instrument* Baritone is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor....

, cello
orchestra 8' Opus One
Max Schubel Aquirelle 2003 cello orchestra 13' Opus One
Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one оf the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990.-Life and Works:...

Shepherd's Pipes of Vologda (Hommage to Bartók), op. 91 1995 oboe, horn strings 8' Schott
Heinrich Simbriger Elegie, op. 94 1963 violin strings 12'
Robert Starer
Robert Starer
Robert Starer was an Austrian-born American composer and pianist.Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy...

Concerto a quattro 1983 oboe, clarinet, bassoon orchestra 22' MCA MMC
Clive Strutt
Clive Strutt
Clive Edward Hazzard Strutt is an English composer born 19th April 1942 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. He was educated at Farnborough Grammar School....

Suite in G minor after Loeillet
Loeillet
Loeillet may refer to:* Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent , composer* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London , flutist, oboist, harpsichordist, and composer. The two Jean-Baptiste Loeillets were cousins...

1996 oboe strings, harpsichord
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

22' SMC
Gleb Taranov Concerto piccolo 1937 flute, bassoon strings
Ivan Tcherepnin
Ivan Tcherepnin
Ivan Tcherepnin was an experimental, then later modernist/postmodernist, composer. He was born into a highly musical family, his father and grandfather, Alexander and Nikolai, being distinguished Russian composers, and his mother Ming a well-known pianist...

Triple Concertino 1997 trombone, contrabass clarinet
Contrabass clarinet
The contrabass clarinet is the largest member of the clarinet family that has ever been in regular production or significant use. Modern contrabass clarinets are pitched in BB, sounding two octaves lower than the common B soprano clarinet and one octave lower than the B bass clarinet...

winds 13'
Francis Thorne
Francis Thorne
Francis Thorne is an American composer of contemporary classical music and grandson of the writer Gustav Kobbé.-Life:...

Triple Concerto 2004 bass clarinet, viola orchestra 23' Presser
František Xaver Thuri Triple Concerto in D-major 2005 oboe, oboe d'amore strings, harpsichord Thuri
Tôn-Thât Tiêt
Ton-That Tiet
Tôn Thất Tiết is a Vietnamese music composer.-Biography:Born in Huê in central Vietnam in 1933, Tiet came to Paris in 1958 to study composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He attended Jean Rivier and André Jolivet classes for composition...

Hy Vong 14 1971 harpsichord strings 15' Salabert
Michael Touchi Tango Barroco 2000 soprano saxophone
Soprano saxophone
The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...

strings 16' JDA
Eugenio Toussaint
Eugenio Toussaint
Eugenio Toussaint Uhtohff , was a Mexican composer, arranger and jazz musician.He began playing as a pianist in 1972 with the band "Odradek". In 1975, he took part in the jazz band "Blue Note" and a year later he founded the Mexican band "Sacbé", one of the most important Mexican jazz bands...

Gauguin 2000 harp strings 20' Urtext
John Veale
John Veale
John Douglas Louis Veale was an English classical composer.He was born in Shortlands, Bromley, Kent; his father, Douglas Veale, later served as Registrar of the University of Oxford and received a knighthood. John Veale was educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford , alongside Kenneth...

Triune 1993 oboe orchestra 14' Lengnick
Mathieu Vibert Nocturne 1973 oboe orchestra 15' Doron
Graham Whettam Les Roseaux Au Vent 1993 2 oboes, bassoon strings 17' Meriden
Isang Yun
Isang Yun
Isang Yun was a Korean-German composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was granted political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a naturalised German citizen, following his abduction and torture in 1967 by the South Korean...

Duetto concertante 1987 oboe strings 18' Bote & Bock

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See also

  • Oboe concerto
    Oboe concerto
    A number of concertos have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument, and accompanied by string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, band, or similar large ensemble.These include concertos by the following...

  • Oboe d'amore concerto
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    Bass oboe concerto
    The bass oboe, a relative of the oboe having the same note compass as the latter, is able to play any work written for oboe - it will, however, sound an octave lower. In addition a very small number of concertos have been written for the bass oboe and for a related instrument with the same range,...

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