Paul Dukas - Villanelle for Horn and Piano

Paul Dukas wrote his Villanelle as a demanding exam piece for the horn class of the Paris Conservatoire in 1906. The title, referencing a cheerful traditional vocal genre that originated in 16th...

Camille Saint-Saëns - Romances for Horn and Piano Version for Violoncello With Marked and Unmarked String Parts

Camille Saint-Saens composed his two Romances for Horn for two of the most respected French horn players of the time: Opus 67 in E major from 1866 is dedicated to Henri Chaussier; Opus 36 in F major...

Papillon, Op. 77 for Violoncello and Piano With Marked & Unmarked String Parts

After the great success of his Elegie, Faure's publisher Hamelle urged him to write another, similarly effective piece for cello and piano. Papillon was probably already composed in 1884, though it...

Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 for Violin and Piano With Marked and Unmarked String Parts

Faure composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saens expressed his enthusiasm for this work by his friend and...

Romance Op. 37 for Flute or Violin and Piano Accompaniment

Saint-Saens completed the Romance in D Flat Major on 25 March 1871. If in his concertos for solo instrument and orchestra Saint-Saens freed himself from the Viennese classical model (reconfiguring it...

Fifty Times Around the Sun Clarinet and Piano

Wedding March - Op. 61, No. 9 from A Midsummer Night's Dream Oboe and Piano

A wedding without a famous wedding march - unimaginable! Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' from 'Lohengrin' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' from the incidental music of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' vie for...

Wedding March, Op. 61, No. 9 from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Flute and Piano

New solo instrumental arrangements of the well-loved original orchestral piece written in 1843.

To a Wild Rose from Woodland Sketches, Op 51, No. 1 E-flat Saxophone and Piano

Composed in 1896, while MacDowell was in Boston, Woodland Sketches are among the best known of the American composers piano works. The famous first piece from opus 51, To a Wild a Rose, has been...

Sonata No. 2 in G Major Violoncello and Piano (Basso ad lib.)

A busy cello virtuoso, Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724 - 1808) also found time to compose concertos, sonatas, chamber music, and occasional orchestral and sacred works. Sonata No. 2 in G Major is...