An interesting case of self-borrowing. Bach took music from this work for his own Mass in B-minor...

Composed in 1858, Brahms' first concerto was given its premiere in Hanover's Royal Theater on Jan...

Dedicated to 'my friends pictured within', Elgar's orchestral showpiece started life as a simple ...

Composed in 1913 to Konstantin Balmont's free adaptation in Russian of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe,...

Composed for the American amateur saxophonist Elise Hall in 1903, Debussy left the orchestration ...

Dvorak's final Slovanské rapsodie was composed from around September 20 to December 3 of 1878 and...

Elgar produced orchestral arrangements of three items (Nos.1, 3 and 6) from his own set of six so...

Vaughan Williams conducted the first performance of his great choral symphony on his 38th birthda...

The Scherzo capriccioso was composed in the same period (1883-84) as the Symphony No.7, Op.70 and...

Vaughan Williams' setting of four poems from George Herbert's 1633 collection, The Temple: Sacred...

Foote's 20-minute gem was actually pieced together from a couple of earlier, unpublished string o...

Otto Taubmann's classic vocal score of Mozart's Coronation Mass was first issued in the early 20t...