Advance Music

What would Mozart think of this Helmut Eisel's klezmer-style arrangement of the well-known 12 Kegel-Duette [Bowling Duets] KWV 487 for two clarinets? With imaginative variations on the original melodi...

The four parts of this new work by Mike Curtis are delicately interwoven. Alternating between melancholy-solemn and lively, the movements tell of festivities under the starry sky, of wonderful friends...

In 1999, with leftover time at the end of a record date for which Clare had written the string arrangements, he was able to record The Early Years (Movement II), with Cecilia Tsan as cello soloist. Ce...

Mike Curtis' stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, filled with evocative, ethnic textures and colours.

Mike Curtis' stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, 'Souvenir of Guanajuato.' This arrangement for string orchestra is filled with evocative, ethnic...

5 short movements: Good earth, Dance, Birds, River Song, PagodaSketches of China is an evocation of that ancient land, written followinga 5-province performing tour of China by Mike (with his wife Ann...

Each sonata is written in a three movement form (fast-slow-fast), and are equally successful and satisfying when played by any two instruments of matching pitch.Editorial metronome markings, articulat...

One of the most often performed works in the repertoire for oboists. In this edition for saxophone the arranger has included a decorated melodic line for the second movement and provides a good study...

One of the most often performed works in the repertoire for oboists. In this edition for saxophone the arranger has included a decorated melodic line for the second movement and provides a good study...

An excellent and enjoyable piece worthy of Bach's genius.

One of the most beautiful pieces from French Impressionist Claude Debussy.

One of the most beautiful pieces from French Impressionist Claude Debussy.

Unaccompanied Saxophone Virtuoso 3-movement work. Recorded by Norman Des Chenes (Conventus Musicus CM 105).A melody with wide-ranging curves opens, in very slow tempo, the first piece.A motoric Presto...

Transcribed by Trent Kynaston

Transcribed by Trent Kynaston

The composer transcribed Aria from his Suite in A minor, op. 103a for several instruments. So, why not for saxophone?

The composer transcribed Aria from his Suite in A minor, op. 103a for several instruments. So, why not for saxophone?

In addition to the Tre Minuetti (Order No. ADV 7418), G. Puccini also wrote ('... in just one night on occasion of Amadeo of Savoy's death') the string quartet movement Crysanthemi on hand during his...

Bach probably composed Fantasia and Fugue around 1725 at the beginning of his Leipzig years. Hardly any of his keyboard works is so closely associated with his organ works. The remarks ‚manualiter' in...

Ma Mère L'Oye', one of Ravel's most well-known and most often-performed works, was originally conceived and written as a piano duet (1908) and later on arranged for orchestra (1911). Inspired by the 1...

Trouvailles' is a collection of short compositions which I mostly came about by chance and could not get out of my mind again. Therefore, I finally decided to arrange them for saxophone quartet - not...

The Three Songs (Trois Chansons) dating from 1914/15 were arranged for four a cappella voices by Ravel immediately after he had written the music of these pieces. The lyrics were penned by the compose...

Historical information about Händel's Water Music Suites is limited, but certainly these works were intended for two, possibly three, parties given by King George I on the Thames River, London, betwee...

Maurice Ravel's Boléro is probably one of the most frequently performed works of orchestral literature. The composition originated between July and October 1928 and was dedicated to the dancer Ida Rub...