From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro. Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro. Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro. Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

For clarinet and orchestra (piano reduction).

Koncert fortepianowy opracowany na dwa fortepiany, redukcji głosów orkiestrowych dokonał sam kompozytor John Corigliano, współczesny kompozytor tworzący między innymi muzykę filmową. W roku 2000 został nagrodzony nagrodą Oscar'a na muzykę do filmu Purpurowe skrzypce (Red Violin).

Contents: All the Sun Long • And Honored Among Foxes • And Then to Awake • Now as I Was Young.

The text consists of the words 'I love you.' The four singers seem to be involved in various romances which are pointed out by the stress placed on one of the three words. Duration ca. 4 minutes.

With Baritone solo. Text by Dylan Thomas.

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro. Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

Utwór ,,Snapshot: Circa 1909" Johna Corigliano wystawiony był 18 listopada 2003 roku na światowej premierze w New York. Dzieło te przeznaczone jest na kwartet smyczkowy. Inspiracją do napisania tego utworu było zdjęcie, które znajdowało się u dziadków kompozytora we wsi Greenwich (zdjęcie to widnieje na okładce).

This work won the 1964 Spoleto Festival Competition for Chamber Music and was first performed by violinist Yoko Matsuda and pianist Charles Wadsworth. Duration ca. 22 minutes.

The Red Violin Caprices (duration: ca. 10 min.) are derived from John Corigliano's music for The Red Violin, which received the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Score. The Caprices were composed especially for Joshua Bell. 'These Caprices, composed in conjunction with the score for François Girard's film The Red Violin, take a spacious, troubadour-inspired theme and vary it both linearly and stylistically. These variations intentionally evoke Baroque, Gypsy, and arch-Romantic idioms as they examine the same materials (a dark, seven-chord chaconne as well as that principal theme) from differing aural viewpoints. The Caprices were created and ordered to reflect the structure of the film, in which Bussotti, a fictional 18th-century violin maker, crafts his greatest violin for his soon-to-be-born son. When tragedy claims wife and child, the grief-stricken Bussotti, in a gesture both ardent and macabre, infuses the blood of his beloved into the varnish of the instrument. Their fates thus joined, the violin travels across three centuries through Vienna, London, Shanghai and Montreal, passing through the hands of a doomed child prodigy, a flamboyant virtuoso, a haunted Maoist commissar, and at last a willful Canadian expert, whose own plans for the violin finally complete the circle of parent and child united in art.' - John Corigliano

In this extremely emotional aria from Corigliano's popular opera, the ghost of Marie Antoinette relives the unbearable memory that forever haunts her: the final moments of agony and torture before her execution at the guillotine.

From the popular opera The Ghosts of Versailles. The plot revolves around the playwright Beaumarchais, who attempts to seduce Marie Antoinette's ghost, with the help of characters from his plays Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro. Hysterical chaos ensues as the story unfolds.

Fanfares to Music was commissioned by the Lincoln Center and first performed in 1993. Antiphon was written for the dedication of the new Apex field house in New York in 1994. For Double Brass Quintet.

For flute and string quartet. Arranged here for flute and harp reduction.

For flute and string orchestra (piano reduction). A welcome change from the usual flute writing, one that sets new records for the greatest number of notes played in one minute. John Corigliano captures the dreamy atmosphere of a sensual, imagined world in a beautiful recasting of his choral setting of Baudelaire's famous L'Invitation au Voyage in the Richard Wilburtranslation. Duration: 8 minutes.