Gustav Holst's first excursion into music for band (known as 'military band' at the time) was com...
Composed by a 26-year-old John Knowles Paine between 1860 and 1866, the Mass in D, Op. 10 was the...
Written in 1887 for the violinist Raphael Diaz Albertini with whom he was touring, the Havanaise ...
First heard with the premiere of the opera on May 22, 1813 in Venice at the Teatro San Benedetto,...
Gustav Holst's 'Choral Fantasy on Old Carols' was composed in 1910, just two years before the sim...
Vivaldi's Magnificat probably dates from shortly after the 1726 death of composer C.P. Grua, whic...
Composed in 1904, Josef Suk's pasionate symphonic scherzo is presented for the first time in a mo...
One of a series of liturgical works composed for the Salzburg Cathedral, the Offertorium de vener...
Holst's popular suite was named for the St. Paul's Girls' School of Hammersmith, London - where h...
First heard with the opera's premiere on October 9, 1826 in Paris' Salle le Peletier, Rossini's b...
Liszt's second concerto had its beginnings in 1839 or 1840 and was subjected to a number of revis...
An interesting case of self-borrowing. Bach took music from this work for his own Mass in B-minor...