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Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky) Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; Shaker Loops; Sleep (Whitacre) Sonata for String Orchestra (Walton) Sonata per archi; Sospiri; St Paul's Suite; Stockholm Diary; Stringmusic; Suite caractéristique; Suite champêtre; Suite for String Orchestra (Nielsen) Suite for Violin and String Orchestra; Symphony for ...
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, also known as the Corelli Fantasia, is a work for string orchestra by the British composer Michael Tippett.It was commissioned by the 1953 Edinburgh Festival to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli, and given its first performance on 29 August 1953, in the Usher Hall, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra ...
Echorus for two violins and string orchestra (1995) Alexander Glazunov. Mazurka-Oberek in D major, Op. 100b (1917) Lou Harrison. Koncherto for violin and percussion ensemble (1959) Music for Violin and Various Instruments, European, Asian, and African (1967–69) Suite for Violin and American Gamelan (1974; arr. for violin and string orchestra ...
Sinfonietta No. 1, for string orchestra (1992, arranged from String Trio) Sinfonietta No. 2, for clarinet and strings (1994, arranged from Clarinet Quartet) Music from Ubu Rex (1994) Entrata (1994), for brass and timpani; Burlesque Suite from Ubu Rex (1995) for large wind band; Serenade, for string orchestra (1996–97) Luzerner Fanfare (1998 ...
A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first and second violin players (each usually playing different parts), the viola, the cello, and usually, but not always, the double bass.
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The Harpsichord Concerto in E major, BWV 1053, is a concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the second of Bach's keyboard concerto composed in 1738, scored for keyboard and baroque string orchestra. The movements were reworkings of parts of two of Bach's church cantatas composed in 1726: the solo obbligato ...
At the same time, Sviridov increasingly felt estranged from the music of Igor Stravinsky—whose Perséphone, Symphony of Psalms, and Jeu de cartes he knew well—and Dmitri Shostakovich. [4] In 1940, Sviridov began and completed his Symphony for Strings. [5] Sviridov's use of a string orchestra was considered unusual for a Soviet symphony of ...