Samuel Adler

Contents: Deep in Our Hearts (American Hymn) - God of Grace, Perpetual Silence - How Firm a Foundation - Oh Thou Whose Hand Kingdoms Sway.

A sweeping chorale gives way to exciting, colorful antiphony in Samuel Adler’s A TESTAMENT for wind ensemble. Written to commemorate conductor Michael Haithcock’s retirement from university teaching,...

4.3.4.3 - 4.3.3.1 - 1.4 - Klavier/Celesta - 0.0.0.0.3 - Partitur

One of a group of four studies, each published separately, originally written for one performer who plays flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Each of them may by played simply as written, by one perfo...

HPS 813

Adler's milestone String Quartet No. 10 was composed for the Cassatt String Quartet for performance at the Bowdoin International Music Festival's 50th Anniversary season in 2014. Built in a single mov...

This CAPRICCIO (BWV 992), subtitled 'Upon the Departure of His Beloved Brother', is an early work of J.S. Bach, possibly modeled on the Biblical Sonatas of Johann Kuhnau. It is an unusually Romantic-s...

A piece for unaccompanied clarinet in seven movements, with a variety of styles for an early intermediate student's first solos collection. Movements: I. Slowly and quietly moving, II. Gracefully, III...

This work for unaccompanied flute was written for James Galway. The sonata is in three movements. A fast, but gently moving first movement is followed by a slow, yet intense, middle movement. The thir...

A piece for unaccompanied clarinet in seven movements, with a variety of styles for an early intermediate student's first solos collection. Movements: I. Slowly and quietly moving, II. Gracefully, III...

Samuel Adler's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano is an advanced contemporary showpiece. It begins with an extended cadenza-like passage followed by several continuous sections of various tempi and styles.