Concert Repertoire Appropriate for Social Distancing
Schott Music
European American Music
EAM
Distanced Repertoire for Smaller Forces
Boosey & Hawkes
"During these unprecedented times, emerging carefully from the COVID-19 pandemic, performance plans may need to be adapted to fit within new restrictions that vary from country to country. With that in mind, we have curated lists of selected works for smaller performing groups. We are happy to supply perusal scores and audio links to conductors and programmers as required, so please contact your local Boosey & Hawkes office."
Ensemble Music for Distanced Musicians
"At this unprecedentedly difficult and worrying time for anyone involved in professional live music making, Edition Peters offers this selection from its full rental catalogue of works for smaller orchestral or ensemble forces. In normal times, and as the original publishers of Beethoven’s First Symphony, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces, Edition Peters has a huge catalogue of performance material to explore including a vast and expanding library of great music from our own time. The present catalogue does not try comprehensively to list the extensive contemporary music we represent, though our composer brochures and perusal scores for any work in our catalogue can easily be made available. Rather we suggest some interesting works that may fit with some of the practical considerations you are presently, and temporarily, dealing with. There are many gems here that deserve to be better known in any case, together with arrangements for reduced forces of some great classics."
Orchestral works for small forces: orchestral works for string and chamber orchestras, as well as small symphony orchestra
Orchesterwere in kleiner Besetzung: Stücke für Streich- und Kammerorchester sowie kleinbesetztes Symphonieorchester
Bärenreiter
"The focus here is less on the familiar core repertoire than on compositions that are played less often and thus open up the possibility of adding new facets to the rigid performance canon."
Reduced versions for opera and orchestra works
Universal Edition
"We live in a time of reduction. But what we do not want to reduce, is our claim to make our life rich and valuable with music – meeting these demands is currently very difficult for concert halls and opera houses. Therefore Universal Edition has created a list of reduced versions of masterpieces that make it possible to continue experiencing music as an indispensable nourishment - live and reflecting the great power of the music."
Socially Distanced Onstage Works
G. Schirmer
"With times of uncertainty ahead for the classical music community, Wise Music Classical has compiled a selection of compositions for string orchestra, chamber orchestra, and chamber ensembles that allow for onstage social distancing. Drawn from the international Wise Music Catalogue, a list of over 100 such pieces is available to view and download at the bottom of the Catalogue section in our new website. From Pulitzer Prize-winning scores by Charles Ives, Morton Gould, and John Corigliano, to 21st-century classics-in-the-making by Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, to rarities by Bent Sørensen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ramon Lazkano, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, we hope that you find these works to be useful and inspiring as modified plans for next season take shape."
Stage and Vocal Works Appropriate for Social Distancing
A selections of stage works from the Schott catalog.
Stage Works for Smaller Forces
Bühnenwerke in kleiner Besetzung
Bärenreiter
