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String orchestra sets by composer

Composers I to R

IRELAND, John

2 pieces for string orchestra: Minuet and Elegy
Strings 6.5.5.5.3.
Boosey & Hawkes

Concertino pastorale, strings
Strings 12.10.8.6.4.
Boosey & Hawkes

JANACEK, Leos

Idyll, strings
Strings: 6.5.4.4.3.
Kalmus

Suite, string orchestra
Strings: 8.7.5.6.4.
Kalmus

JENKINS, Karl

Palladio: concerto grosso for string orchestra
Strings: 4.4.3.3.3.
Boosey & Hawkes

Passacaglia
Strings: 8.8.6.6.6.
Boosey & Hawkes

MENDELSSOHN, Felix

Symphony, strings, no. 4, C minor
Strings: 6.6.5.6.
DVfM

Symphony, strings, no. 5, B flat major
Strings: 6.6.5.6.
DVfM

Symphony, strings, no. 6, E flat major
Strings: 6.6.5.6.
DVfM

Symphony, strings, no. 8, D minor
Strings 5.5.3.6.
DVfM

Symphony, strings, no. 8, D minor
Strings 6.5.4.4.2.
Kalmus

Symphony, strings, no. 9, C minor
Strings: 6.5.2.2.(vla)4.2.
Kalmus

Symphony, strings, no. 10, B minor
Strings: 6.5.2.2.(vla)5.
DVfM

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus

Adagio and fugue, C minor, K.546
Strings 5.4.3.4.
Breitkopf & Hartel

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525
Strings 6.5.4.6.
Barenreiter

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525
Strings 8.7.5.6.4.
Kalmus

NIELSEN, Carl

At the bier of a young artist
Strings: 8.8.5.5.4.
Kalmus

Little suite for strings, op.1
Strings: 6.5.4.4.3.
Kalmus

PACHELBEL, Johann

Canon e gigue
ed. G. Beechey
Strings: 3.3.3.(vln)0.3.keyboard continuo
Eulenberg

PARRY, Charles Hubert Hastings

English suite for strings
Strings: 6.5.4.4.2.
Luck's

PENDERECKI, Krzysztof

3 pieces in Baroque style
Schott
Strings 5.5.3.3.2.

PROKOFIEV, Sergey Sergeyevich

Visions fugitives, op.22
Strings 6.5.3.4.2.
Breitkopf & Hartel

PUCCINI, Giacomo

I crisantemi:
Strings: 8.8.5.5.5.
trans. for string orchestra by Y Talmi
C Fischer

PURCELL, Henry

Abdelazer: incidental music
Strings 5.5.4.0.6. continuo
ed. by C. Hogwood
Faber

Chacony, strings, G minor
Strings 4.3.2.3.
ed. by M. Binney & C. McAlister
Kalmus

Chacony, strings, G minor
Strings 4.4.2.3.1.
ed. by B. Britten
Boosey & Hawkes

Curtain tune on a ground (from Timon of Athens)
Strings: 4.3.3.3.
King's Music

Double dealer: incidental music
Strings: 5.5.4.6. keyboard continuo
ed. by C Hogwood
Faber

Fairy Queen, suite
Strings 2.1.1.1.1.
Sikorski

Fairy Queen, suite. 3 dances for strings
Strings 8.7.6.5.4.
O.U.P.

The Gordian knot untied: incidental music
Strings: 5.6.3.5. keyboard continuo
Schott

King Arthur, suite for strings
Strings 4.4.3.3.1.
arr. by Julian Herbage
Universal

Overture, strings, G major
Strings 12.12.10.8.6.
O.U.P.

RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe

6 Concerts en sextuor. No. 6
Strings 5.5.4.3.5.
Schott

ROSSINI, Gioacchino

Sonata, no.1, G major
Strings 6.3.2.3.1.
Doblinger

Sonata, no.2, A major
Strings 5.4.2.2.1.
Doblinger

Sonata, no.3, C major
Strings 6.4.2.3.1.
Doblinger

Sonata, no.4, B flat major
Strings 5.4.2.3.1.
Doblinger

Sonata, no.5, E flat major
Strings 5.4.2.3.1.
Doblinger

Sonata, no.6, D major
Strings 5.4.2.3.1.
Doblinger

RUTTER, John

Suite for strings
4.4.3.4.2.
Goodmusic

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