[Score] Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 - Malcolm Arnold (for orchestra) @AndewMole

[Score] Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 - Malcolm Arnold (for orchestra)

AndewMole 2023-05-01 | Score: issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/four_scottish_dances_7037
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=a3QJ9MyrCZM
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Arnold, conductor

0:00 I. Pesante
2:40 II. Vivace
5:01 III. Allegretto
9:08 IV. Con brio

[Score] Jean Françaix - Sérénade (1934) for 12 instruments

AndewMole 2024-10-12 | Score: schott-music.com/en/serenade-noc35336.html
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwNVcgBuJkqs6jMB8dw_85sAoeDhAcdGY
Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer, conductor

0:00 I. Vif
2:23 II. Andantino con moto
5:15 III. Un poco allegretto
6:25 IV. Vivace

[Score] Rimsky-Korsakov - Suite from the opera The Maid of Pskov (Ivan the Terrible) (1872/1892)

AndewMole 2024-10-11 | Score: vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/91/IMSLP863100-PMLP68470-RK_-_Maid_of_Pskov.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l8QDYLzRJI8oNU8YzC7iJpvj7MM6mcafQ
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

0:00 Overture
6:14 Act I: Intermezzo
8:15 Act II: Intermezzo
11:15 Act III, Scene 1: In the Woods - Tsar's Hunting - Storm - Musical Picture

[Score] Japanese Graffiti XI Police Drama Themes (arr. Takashi Hoshide for concert band)

AndewMole 2024-10-10 | music by Katsuo Ohno, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Masato Kai, Kentaro Haneda
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=CGtI-czcgrw
Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
Naohiro Iwai, conductor

[Score] Cherubini - 2 Sonatas for horn and string orchestra (1804)

AndewMole 2024-10-09 | Score: vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/2f/IMSLP253829-PMLP53636-cherubini_2_sonatas_score.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kwe2Oqc6yCmYOXU4OpWhHFyCLtGk3tGr4
Ádám Friedrich, horn
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
János Rolla, conductor

0:00 I. Sonate - Larghetto
2:45 II. Sonate - Largo
5:55 - Allegro moderato

[Score] Richard Rodney Bennett - Little Suite (1965) for small orchestra

AndewMole 2024-10-08 | adapted from songs from the books "The Aviary" and "The Insect World"
Score: universaledition.com/media/f6/ac/66/1695896756/ce9e8260683204d1a2e1a4de0e8f8c99.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_knbHBjH18xZOw4cuePVlt73rVNJp2NXb0
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Gavin Sutherland, conductor

0:00 I. The Birds Lament
2:50 II. The Widow Bird
4:15 III. The Ladybird
6:28 IV. Glow-worms
8:45 V. The Lark

The Birds' Lament
words by John Clare

1. Oh, says the linnet, if I sing,
My love forsook me in the spring,
And nevermore will I be seen
without my satin gown of green.

2. Oh, says the pretty feathered jay,
Now my love is gone away
And for the memory of my dear
A feather of each sort I'll wear.

3. Oh, says the rook and eke the crow,
The reason why in black we go
Because our love has us forsook
So pity us poor crow and rook.

4. Oh, says the pretty speckled thrush
that changes its note from bush to bush,
My love has left me here alone,
I fear she never will return.

The Widow Bird
words by P. B. Shelley

A widow bird sate mourning for her love
Upon a leafy bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing wind below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flow'r upon the ground.
And little motion in the air
Except the millwheel's sound.

Clock-a-clay
words by John Clare

1. In the cowslip pips I lie
Hidden from the buzzing fly,
While green grass beneath me lies,
Pearled with dew like fishes' eyes,
Here I lie a Clock-a-clay,
Waiting for the time of day

2. While grassy forest quakes surprise
And the wild wind sobs and sighs,
My home rocks as like to fall,
On its pillar green and tall,
While the patt'ring rain drives by,
Clock-a-clay keeps warm and dry.

3. Day by day and night by night,
All the week I hide from sight,
In the cowslip pips I lie,
in rain and dew still warm and dry,
Day and night and night and day,
Red, black spotted Clock-a-clay

4. My home shakes in wind and showers
Pale green pillar topped with flowers
Bending at the wild winds breath,
Till I touch the grass beneath,
Here I live, lone Clock-a-clay,
Watching for the time of day.

Glow-worms
words by Andrew Marvell

Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
the nightingale does sit so late,
And studying all the summer night
her matchless song does meditate:

Ye country comets, that portend
No war nor princes funeral,
Shining unto no higher end
than to presage the grass's fall:

Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame
to wand'ring mowers shows the way,
that in the night have lost their aim
and after foolish fires do stray.

Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
Since Juliana here is come,
For she my mind hath so displaced
that I shall never find my home.

The Lark
words by S. T. Coleridge

Do you ask what the birds say?
The sparrow, the dove,
The linnet and thrush say,
'I love and I love.'

In the winter they're silent,
the wind is so strong;
What it says I don't know,
but it sings a loud song.

But green leaves, and blossoms,
and sunny warm weather,
And singing and loving
all come back together.

But the lark is so brimful
of gladness and love,
The green fields below him
the blue sky above.

That he sings and he sings
and forever sings he,
'I love my Love
and my Love loves me.'

[Score] Samuel Hazo - Exultate (2003) for concert band

AndewMole 2024-10-07 | Score: pdfcoffee.com/hazo-exultate--pdf-free.html
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=LyDwzwlWm20
North Texas Wind Symphony
Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor

[Score] Vaughan Williams - Old King Cole, ballet for orchestra (1923)

AndewMole 2024-10-04 | Score: s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/54/IMSLP135942-PMLP260684-Vaughan_Williams_-_Old_King_Cole.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMJvC_pH0rw4Rc2vBFTNxYLmW1oaslO4Q
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze, conductor

0:00 Introduction
1:31 - Entrance of the King
3:01 Pipe Dance
6:00 Bowl Dance
7:32 Morris Jig
9:07 - King is Bored and Goes to Sleep
11:53 Bold Young Farmer
12:44 - King Comes Down from His Throne
13:28 The Jolly Thresherman
18:36 - Fiddler Slowly Moves Across Stage

[Score] Tom and Jerry at MGM - Scott Bradley (arr. Michael Barry for orchestra)

AndewMole 2024-10-03 | Score: issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/tomj_score_for_score_v3.1_2019_20210419_-_concert
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=kYrUWfLlYI0
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

[Full Score] Clifton WiIliams - Fanfare and Allegro (1956) for symphonic band

AndewMole 2024-10-01 | Score: stantons.com/media/273540/fanfare-and-allegro.pdf
Audio: content.alfred.com/catmp3/catmp3_purchase/bdm01016.mp3

0:00 I. Fanfare
2:38 II. Allegro

[Full Score] Gordon Jacob - Horn Concerto (1951) for horn and string orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-28 | Score: issuu.com/ecs_publishing/docs/jacob_-_horn_concerto_fs
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUW1BfhrVELtlnbgO5t-f_NLidGoVME_U
David Pyatt, horn
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

0:00 I. Allegro moderato
8:46 II. Adagio
14:30 III. Allegro con spirito, quasi presto

[Score] Victor Ewald - Brass Quintet No. 3, Op. 7

AndewMole 2024-09-26 | Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kf7DvWHWYOCKw6gdATgJvh0LOompEEOZQ
Center City Brass Quintet
Anthony DiLorenzo and Geoffrey Hardcastle, trumpets
Richard King, horn
Steven Witser, trombone
Craig Knox, tuba

0:00 I. Allegro moderato
5:31 II. Intermezzo
10:31 III. Andante
14:12 IV. Vivo

[Score] Jean Françaix - Pavane pour un Génie vivant (1987) for chamber orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-24 | Score: schott-music.com/en/pavane-no151829.html
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=ArKE-V8wcAI
Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer, conductor

[Score] Levee Dance - Clarence Cameron White (for violin and piano), Op. 27 No. 2

AndewMole 2024-09-23 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=761mKvOhwu4
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Milton Kaye, piano

[Score] Richard Rodney Bennett - Celebration (1991) for orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-22 | Commissioned by the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in celebration of its 10th Anniversary Season. Dedicated to the founders, subscribers and musicians of the Maryland Symphony.
Score (in C): issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/celebration_8177
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=chZUDScJ4_M
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

[Full Score] Eric Coates - The Three Bears (A Phantasy) for orchestra (1926)

AndewMole 2024-09-21 | Audio: open.spotify.com/album/1AxFaPMyal2RnKSAQbnWAs
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

0:00 WHO'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR?
0:10 Goldilocks gets out of bed and dresses. She steals quietly downstairs. She stops to listen to the clock ticking
0:32 Clock strikes five. Goldilocks runs on her way. Goldilocks reaches the Bears' House
1:29 Goldilocks knocks at the Bears' door. The Robin Redbreast trills a warning. She goes into the Bears' House.
2:25 Goldilocks falls asleep in the small Bear's Bed
3:14 Enter the Three Bears
3:59 The Three Bears rush upstairs, where they discover Goldilocks fast asleep, in the Small Bear's Bed. Goldilocks jumps out of bed
4:13 She runs away, followed by the Three Bears. The Three Bears stop for a moment to catch their breath. The Three Bears become more and more out of breath. The Three Bears give up the chase in disgust
5:24 The Three Bears make the best of it and return home, in the best of humour
6:27 Goldilocks continues on her way home. Goldilocks tells her grandmamma all about the Three Bears and how she fell asleep in the small Bear's Bed
8:31 As for the Three Bears – They put up a notice: "BEWARE! THREE HUNGRY BEARS LIVE HERE!"

[Full Score] Debussy - La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box), L. 128 (orch. Caplet)

AndewMole 2024-09-20 | Score: vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/1/18/IMSLP723807-PMLP7556-00._DEBUSSY_-_LA_BOITE_A_JOUJOUX_-_Conductor_Score.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lcLXAPWcK9g-4ErSFUZoM9RFo2hUrsMwc
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

0:00 Prélude: Le sommeil de la boîte (The toy-box asleep)
2:20 Tableau 1: Le magasin de jouets (The toy shop)
3:55 - Pas de l'éléphant
5:28 - Danse de l'arlequin
6:05 - Le soldat anglais
6:39 - Polichinelle
7:24 - Le nègre
7:52 - Le policeman
8:27 - Valse: Danse de la poupée (The doll's waltz)
10:51 - Le marin
13:14 Tableau 2: Le champ de bataille (The field of battle)
22:52 Tableau 3: La bergerie à vendre (The sheepfold for sale)
29:22 Tableau 4: Après fortune faite (After making a fortune)
31:12 Épilogue

[Score] Jean Françaix - Ouverture anacréontique (1978) for orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-19 | Score: schott-music.com/en/ouverture-anacreontique-no151806.html
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=FLW-vB9rx7g
Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer, conductor

[Score] Richard Rodney Bennett - Symphony No. 3 (1987)

AndewMole 2024-09-18 | Score: issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/symphony_no3_8210
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kIx7g_hYB3Jw2bl5ZGhePqZGssoJhtqQ8
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

0:00 I. Andante
2:08 - Vivo
7:32 II. Allegretto
12:49 III. Adagio

[Score] Richard Rodney Bennett - Symphony No. 2 in one movement (1967)

AndewMole 2024-09-17 | Score: archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/7c9862af-443b-41ec-9b38-e59993924480-0.1/fullview
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lVIyhC7M4UwFWV1Urcrwsd9e88GQ3vFlQ
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

[Full Score] Frank Martin - Piano Concerto No. 1 (1934)

AndewMole 2024-09-16 | Score: universaledition.com/media/61/14/fe/1690894261/7b7998ad3d2b305ec61505da05419872.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kcdqe2Cx4AO8WLAZzujE2w4sUk-AsXxes
Sebastian Benda, piano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Christian Benda, conductor

0:00 I. Lento
9:45 II. Largo
15:50 III. Allegro molto

[Score] Gershwin - I Got Rhythm (arr. Robert Russell Bennett for voices and orchestra)

AndewMole 2024-09-15 | Score: schott-music.com/en/girl-crazy-no251312.html
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=boimO-9AM_I
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, vocal soloist
The Foursome, male voices
New Princess Theater Orchestra
John McGlinn, conductor

[Score] Jean Françaix - Quadruple Concerto (1935) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-14 | Score: https://classic-online.ru/uploads/000_notes/27400/27317.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kbCJoHPA-apgDs9K-p4vXXz7BSBKPqvGk
Martin-Ulrich Senn, flute
Marie-Luise Moderson, oboe
Jörg Fadle, clarinet
Hans Lemke, bassoon
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Hans E. Zimmer, conductor

0:00 I. Allegretto tranquillo
2:51 II. Vivo, scherzando
6:01 III. Andante
9:08 IV. Finale. Presto

[Score] Richard Rodney Bennett - Sinfonietta (1984) for orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-13 | Commissioned by the National Federation of Music Societies with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain
Score (in C): issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/sinfonietta_8206
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=An79iZRRCR8
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

0:00 Vivo
2:35 Lento e dolce
6:41 Con brio

[Score] Jean Françaix - Musique pour faire plaisir (1984) after Poulenc

AndewMole 2024-09-12 | Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l7Hge1TGbNSwtUKdORFHXDSCkAIpCmmUs
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Nicolas Chalvin, conductor

0:00 I. Petite Valse - Introduction (after Valse for l'Album des Six, FP 17)
2:15 II. Elègie (after Elègie en accords alternés, FP 175)
6:56 III. L'embarquement pour Cythère, grande valse dèmocratique (after FP 150)

[Score] Daniel Isgar - In Their Gentle Presence (2014) for trombone octet

AndewMole 2024-09-11 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=vxXQuH2BvHc
Columbus State Trombone Ensemble

[Score] Charles Gounod - 6 Mélodies for horn and piano

AndewMole 2024-09-10 | Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ms4_BlkPwjhslGckMyngCM5teqSE_1Su4
Barry Tuckwell, horn
Daniel Blumenthal, piano

0:00 I. Larghetto
5:02 II. Andantino
8:22 III. Andante cantabile
12:22 IV. Andante, quasi Allegretto, ma non troppo
17:55 V. Andante
21:15 VI. Larghetto

[Score] Frank Martin - Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion and string orchestra

AndewMole 2024-09-09 | Score: universaledition.com/media/f2/41/6f/1693244165/c4bc967c669f926212e326375d9004e4.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJcOAA9CSQJWFOghlKUs1XoPOEYmhQdf0
Celia Chambers, flute
Ian Hardwick, oboe
Robert Hill, clarinet
Philip Tarlton, bassoon
Paul Archibald, trumpet
Richard Bissill, horn
Bettina Jensen, trombone
Russell Jordan, timpani
Keith Millar, Gerald Kirby and Benedict Hoffnung, percussion
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor

0:00 I. Allegro
7:05 II. Adagietto
14:17 III. Allegro vivace

[Score] Jean-Michel Damase - Pavane Variée for horn and piano

AndewMole 2024-09-08 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=3nkDhd6BZwE
David Pyatt, horn
Martin Jones, piano

[Full Score] Debussy - Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra, L. 116

AndewMole 2024-09-07 | Score: ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c7/IMSLP13156-Debussy_-_Première_Rhapsodie_(orch_score).pdf
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=hCCgUGkSdc4
Carlos Ferreira, clarinet
Orchestre National de France
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor

[Score] Saint-Saëns - 2 Romances for horn and piano

AndewMole 2024-09-06 | Score: vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5d/IMSLP14370-Saint-saens-romance.pdf ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/44/IMSLP30590-PMLP69039-Saint-Saëns_-_Romance,_Op._67_(horn_and_piano).pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ms4_BlkPwjhslGckMyngCM5teqSE_1Su4
Barry Tuckwell, horn
Daniel Blumenthal, piano

0:00 Romance in F major, Op. 36
3:31 Romance in E major, Op. 67

[Score] Ginastera - Variaciones Concertantes for chamber orchestra, Op. 23

AndewMole 2024-09-05 | Score: boosey.com/cr/perusals/score?id=1062
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_krEXvCYdydAODUlY08tyTjvVM8s5dWJn4
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Juanjo Mena, conductor

0:00 I. Tema per Violoncello ed Arpa
1:58 II. Interludio per Corde
3:40 III. Variazione giocosa per Flauto
4:41 IV. Variazione in modo di Scherzo per Clarinetto
6:32 V. Variazione drammatica per Viola
9:57 VI. Variazione canonica per Oboe e Fagotto
12:22 VII. Variazione ritmica per Tromba e Trombone
12:57 VIII. Variazione in modo di Moto perpetuo per Violino
14:01 IX. Variazione pastorale per Corno
16:19 X. Interludio per Fiati
17:35 XI. Ripresa dal Tema per Contrabasso
19:28 XII. Variazione finale in modo di Rondo per Orchestra

[Score] Jean-Michel Damase - Berceuse, Op. 19 (for horn and piano)

AndewMole 2024-09-04 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=imsOx-_VSbc
David Pyatt, horn
Martin Jones, piano

[Score] Anthony DiLorenzo - Full Tilt (2013) for trombone octet

AndewMole 2024-09-03 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=hQ0ScgjMEvE
Trombonists of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony:
Norwin Hahn
Oliver Siefert
Klaus Bruschke
Francis Baur
Lothar Schmitt
Trombonists of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band:
Günter Bollmann
Christian Jaksjø
Robert Hedemann
Hans-Reiner Schmidt, conductor

[Score] West Side Story (suite) for brass quintet - Leonard Bernstein arr. Jack Gale

AndewMole 2024-09-02 | Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAPphJpYHAFa5e5TOdPD_bCnncA1DUP-Y
Center City Brass Quintet
Anthony DiLorenzo and Ryan Anthony, trumpets
Richard King, horn
Steven Witser, trombone
Craig Knox, tuba

0:00 1. Prologue
2:28 2. Something's Comin'
4:51 3. Maria
7:44 4. Tonight
9:40 5. America
11:43 6. One Hand, One Heart
13:47 7. I Feel Pretty
15:20 8. Somewhere

[Score] Eric Ewazen - A Western Fanfare (1997) for brass choir with percussion

AndewMole 2024-09-01 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=qhzzjgMiZBQ
Summit Brass

[Score] Terrence Wong - Fortitude (2021) for solo saxophone and chamber ensemble

AndewMole 2024-08-28 | Fortitude
for Solo Soprano/Alto Saxophone and Mixed Chamber Ensemble
by Terrence Wong Fei Yang @TerrenceWong89

To purchase the score for performance, please write to Terrence Wong at terrence.wong89@gmail.com

Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=BG8Z2vAN_F8
Samuel Phua, saxophone @samsax97
Asian Cultural Symphony Orchestra @AsianCulturalSymphonyOrchestra
Adrian Chiang, conductor @adrianchiang8493

Commissioned by the Asian Cultural Symphony Orchestra for performance with rising Singaporean saxophonist Samuel Phua in 2021, Fortitude serves as a tribute to the people belonging to the Pioneer and Merdeka generations of Singapore, acknowledging the multiple hardships they have endured for the sole purpose of making life better and more purposeful for their descendants.

[Score] Tsao Chieh - Two Little Pieces for Orchestra (1994)

AndewMole 2024-08-23 | Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui, conductor

0:00 Idyll
4:48 Dance

The "Two Little Pieces" were written for the Temasek Junior College orchestra upon the request of its resident conductor Mr Chan Tze Law, who also conducted the Singapore Youth Orchestra in the first performance of the "Fugato" from my "Prelude, Interlude, and Fugato". The pieces are deliberately written in an easily accessible late-romantic idiom so that they can be mastered in a relatively limited time by a young orchestra. They are, in a way, pieces which I had always wanted to write as a teenager many years ago but which could not be satisfactorily penned down at that time owing to the lack of compositional technique.

The first piece "Idyll" is in the key of E major, a favourite among romantic composers and one that I am particularly fond of myself. The piece starts with characteristic pizzicato figurations in the strings over which a rising yearning melody unfolds in the first violins. These first 20 bars or so provide almost all the material with which the movement is composed using Wagnerian techniques of motivic development. After moving into the tonic minor, the music reasserts itself in major keys while the rising intervals of the opening melody become increasingly prominent. Chromatic figurations finally lead to a catharsis which is built upon the opening figurations. The movement dies away in a hymn-like passage embroidered by solo cello and violin.

"Dance" is stylistically reminiscent of Grieg and Schumann, and is probably best described as being in abridged sonata form. The first subject group comprises three main portions: the jaunty, opening figures in A minor, a pastoral section characterised by unexpected modulations, and a semiquaver figuration which acts as a bridge to the second subject. This is a long, flowing melody which modulates to remote keys and which is subsequently embroidered with figuration derived from the first subject group. After reaching a climax, the recapitulation begins with an elliptical version of the first subject group. This leads to a restatement of the second subject on cellos and horns, this time in the tonic major and decorated with semiquaver figurations from the transition. The piece ends triumphantly with a short coda in A major.

Two Little Pieces was first performed by the Temasek Junior College Orchestra at a concert at the Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, on 5th May 1994 with Chan Tze Law conducting. The composer wrote the musical score directly using Finale, hence no handwritten version of the score exists.

[Score] Tsao Chieh - Stasis (1988) for orchestra

AndewMole 2024-08-22 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=HpETQ9Kc4N0
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Darrell Ang, conductor

"Stasis" has its origins in some of the ethnic music of the ASEAN countries, particularly Thailand and Bali, where an intricate fabric of rhythmic activity would often convey the sense of a larger equilibrium. This idea of stillness in change led to a piece which, if not strictly "minimalist" in the currently fashionable sense, is at least strongly influenced by such tendencies. In a way, it is a reaction against the complexities of post-Webern serialism so fashionable in the 1950s and 60s.

The whole piece is a succession of modes which are subsets of the scale of A major. Initially comprising only two or three notes, the modes wax and wane in complexity, sometimes becoming pentatonic or hexatonic. Controlled improvisation is used in several places in the work and exotic instrumental effects such as bowed vibraphone, water gong and exhalation sounds contribute to the air of fantasy. In a long pentatonic passage (the scale here is G-sharp, A, B, D and E) for solo flute, strings, percussion and woodwind, C-sharp is avoided until the climactic point, where finally all notes in A major are used simultaneously. After that, the modes gradually diminish in complexity. Vibraphone, celesta and solo violin end the piece on a pentatonic chord.

Stasis was a work specially commissioned by the Singapore Youth Orchestra management committee for the SYO's performance on their tour to Perth, Western Australia in 1988.

It was first performed in Singapore by the Singapore Youth Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Vivien Goh in March 1988 and had its Australian premiere later that same year. Although the composer had a musical rationale for the name "Stasis", another source claimed that he named it after the amplifier that he owned at the time.

The work is scored for standard orchestra augmented by additional percussion including piano, celesta, vibraphone and xylophone.

[Full Score] Rachmaninoff orch. Alexander Oon - Prelude in E major, Op. 32 No. 3

AndewMole 2024-08-21 | Alexander Oon: instagram.com/alexxxnder @alexanderianoon6389
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=U8tG_-KFLIk
Orchestra of the Music Makers @OrchestraMusicMakers
Seow Yibin, conductor

[Score] Terrence Wong - Wayfarer (2022) for concert band

AndewMole 2024-08-18 | Wayfarer
for Wind Band
Grade 4
by Terrence Wong Fei Yang @TerrenceWong89

Buy the score: terrencewong89.wixsite.com/mysite/copy-of-courses
VENTUS @ventus.band.singapore
Adrian Chiang, conductor @adrianchiang8493

0:00 Frontmatter
0:05 I. Halcyon Days
1:51 II. Inevitable Dangers
3:38 III. Light at Tunnel's End
4:09 IV. Renewal

Commissioned by the Tampines Secondary School Concert Band, Wayfarer follows a youth who, in breaking out of their comfort zone, embarks on a difficult yet transformative journey in search of personal identity. Through hard work, perseverance and help from family and friends, the youth grows into a worthy young adult who is both independent and respectable.

[Score] Terrence Wong - Force 136 (2020/2024) for concert band

AndewMole 2024-08-17 | Force 136
for Wind Band
Grade 2.5
by Terrence Wong Fei Yang @TerrenceWong89

Buy the score: terrencewong89.wixsite.com/mysite/copy-of-wayfarer
Band Academy Singapore (BAS) Ensemble @BandAcademySingapore
bandacademysingapore.com
Adrian Chiang, conductor @adrianchiang8493

Commissioned by Adrian Chiang and the Maris Stella High School Symphonic Band in 2021 for performance at the Singapore Youth Festival Arts Presentation for School Bands, this piece is part of a series of compositions celebrating Singapore’s unsung heroes.

The piece serves as a salute to Lim Bo Seng, who is recognised as one of Singapore’s most famous war heroes, playing an active role in Force 136, which was a secret service organisation in Malaya active during WWII. He accomplished, among other feats, blowing up the Causeway to impede the advance of the Japanese, as well as setting up an intelligence network (Operation Zipper) in four urban areas with the aim of recapturing Malaya with British support by 1945. Unfortunately, he was caught in 1944 and, unyielding in the face of the Kempeitai’s brutality, eventually died in a jail in Perak due to severe malnutrition in the same year.

The title of this piece was decided upon by the band members of the Maris Stella High School Symphonic Band, and the spirited music portrays his unwavering spirit and bravery.

This edition is a revised version for full concert band.

[Full Score] Rachmaninoff orch. Alexander Oon - Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5

AndewMole 2024-08-16 | Alexander Oon: instagram.com/alexxxnder @alexanderianoon6389
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=MpkrsTSS-Gs
Orchestra of the Music Makers @OrchestraMusicMakers
Seow Yibin, conductor

[Score] Ding Jian Han: Three Pieces in search of Myself - I (2020)

AndewMole 2024-08-12 | Ding Jian Han's website: dingjianhancomposer.com @4haki369
Audio: soundcloud.com/dingjh/2020-three-pieces-in-search-of-myself-no1
Ensemble INprogRES
Leh-Qiao Liao, conductor
Elisabeth Maliks, clarinet
Sofie Berge, horn
Anna Isabell Haas and Lukas Döhler, violins
Severin Haslach, cello

[Score] Lee Jinjun - Symphony for Brass and Percussion The Times Have Changed (2021)

AndewMole 2024-08-07 | Buy the score: leejinjun.com/the-times-have-changed
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=O9oz4LAWLik
Orchestra of the Music Makers @OrchestraMusicMakers
Tzelaw Chan, conductor

0:00 I. Introduction
7:00 II. Scherzo
12:59 III. Elegy
21:08 IV. Finale

"This Symphony encapsulates the stages of human response towards a calamity that results in huge societal changes. The first movement sparks the onset of the troubling times and the failure of humanity to cope, the scherzo being a devilish dance that mocks humanity's response. The third movement is an elegy that leads to the hopeful finale, where a moto perpetuo leads humanity onto the road to recovery.

The work is dedicated to all of humanity going through the Covid-19 pandemic." - Lee Jinjun @jinjunlee8324

[Score] Lee Jinjun - Ayam Titanium (2018) for brass quintet

AndewMole 2024-08-06 | Buy the score: leejinjun.com/ayam-titanium
Chiaki Hirata and Jinjun Lee, trumpets @jinjunlee8324
Sophie Bell, horn
Ellena Newton, trombone
Harry Cunningham, tuba

On the night of the 30th of February, 2018, a great tragedy happened in the icy plains of Malaysia. An ancient giant robot-chicken awoke from its long slumber, and gazed upon the lands of the tropical country. Full of destructive malice, its first target was a nearby chicken farm, and began a slow ponderous march towards it, while broadcasting a twisted version of the French folk song La Poule through its speakers.

The chickens, seeing a gigantic version of themselves, thought it was their saviour from the heavens, here to free them from captivity. They started clucking in celebration, until the first laser bolt from the giant chicken hit the farm. There was great panic and chaos, and before long, all that was left was a carnage of blood and feathers.

The military responded swiftly to the threat, deploying their tanks and fighter jets and began an all out offensive to take the giant chicken down. Mysteriously, it seemed to be protected by an impenetrable forcefield. As the giant chicken shrugged off the attacks, it squawked, ”You shoot me down, but I won’t fall. AYAM TITANIUM!!!”

Before long, even the military was defeated by this seemingly indestructible creature, and as it marched into the night, the cold winter winds blew. The giant chicken’s total victory was inevitable.

And then I woke up.

[Score] Lee Jinjun - Party in Space (2019) for concert band

AndewMole 2024-08-02 | SYF 2019 Set Piece (Junior College and Centralised Institute Level)
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7UEhvTOjE
Nanyang Junior College Symphonic Band
Gavilan Neo, conductor

"As the youth of Singapore move on to join the workforce, they can bring in exuberant energy, the ability to assess problems from different perspectives, and solve them creatively. This reminds me of the multi-perspective environment of outer space, where there isn’t an up, down, left or right. Hence, the event of Singapore going into the future is much like a Party in Space.

Party in Space brings us on a futuristic and energetic ride, led by today’s youth. The main motif of the work goes through various transformations such as inversion and retrograde, to display the multiple perspectives of our youth. There are also various instrumental, structural and even harmonic choices that a band can make, in a way that represents exploration and creative decision-making. This alludes to how our youths’ decisions will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Singapore.

Party in Space was commissioned by the Ministry of Education for the Singapore Youth Festival 2019 Arts Presentation for Band." - Lee Jinjun

[Score] Lee Jinjun - Festival on Earth (2019) for concert band

AndewMole 2024-08-01 | SYF 2019 Set Piece (Secondary Level)
Buy the score: bravomusic-inc.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=5213
Re:Cinta Wind Symphony
Dylan Lim, conductor

"To me, Singapore is not only a location, but also an event. Ever since her founding 200 years ago, she has been a huge collective of diverse people coming together, much like a Festival. She is also ever shifting, evolving and tweaking, creating a unique identity for herself.

Like Singapore herself, Festival on Earth seeks to give wind bands an opportunity to create identities for themselves through decision making. In a somewhat modular fashion, bands can choose between various instrumental and structural choices in the piece.

The Festival opens with a loud pop, and a celebratory procession begins. As one starts exploring the festival grounds, we come first to a puppet show. We return to the celebratory atmosphere and follow it until arriving at a romantic play. The next stop is a cluster of booths, and depending on the order you choose to see, we have a tribal dance, a carousel and a game booth. As the festive day draws to a close, one can either leave with quiet satisfaction, or end the day with a bang!

Festival on Earth was commissioned by the Ministry of Education for the Singapore Youth Festival 2019 Arts Presentation for Band." - Lee Jinjun

[Full Score] Joseph Joachim - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major (1889)

AndewMole 2024-07-28 | Score: vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/20/IMSLP519830-PMLP242309-JJoachim_Violin_Concerto_No.3_fullscore.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lFeGsBW1y9e0h31xd1w8f205bF-sf_MYY
Takako Nishizaki, violin
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Meir Minsky, conductor

0:00 I. Allegro non troppo
16:33 II. Andante
25:12 III. Allegro giocoso ed energico, ma non troppo vivace

[Full Score] Joseph Joachim - Violin Concerto No. 2 in the Hungarian Style, Op. 11

AndewMole 2024-07-25 | Score: vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/da/IMSLP80008-SIBLEY1802.12727.6c63-39087009411655scorepp1-66.pdf ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3d/IMSLP80009-SIBLEY1802.12727.8a90-39087009411655scorepp67-end.pdf
Audio: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l0Mwu9UV8ovexz1hTxYpviW0RU9iKEIsU
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor

0:00 I. Allegro un poco maestoso
20:28 - Cadenza
26:36 II. Romanze. Andante
36:05 III. Finale alla Zingara. Allegro con spirito

[Score] Koussevitzky (orch. Meyer-Tormin) - Double Bass Concerto, Op. 3 (version without harp)

AndewMole 2024-07-21 | Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=fdLKA0QttSE
Gary Karr, contrabass
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Uroš Lajovic, conductor

0:00 I. Allegro
5:53 II. Andante
11:57 III. Allegro