Advanced Classical Music Sheet Music

Bassoon Solo or with Piano accompaniment optional.

'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

In this edition, Silvestrov has compiled for the first time five cycles from a multitude of 'Bagatellen', his favourite genre in recent years - and even recorded them on CD (ECM). What mainly interest...

1. Andante molto 2. Allegretto 3. Leidenschaftlich schnell Original für Violine

As famed as Ravel for his Pavane is Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887) for his Polovtsian Dances. Originally these dances were part of the opera Prince Igor - in the second act, the Polovtsian Khan uses...

The basic idea of Parallels was to combine the flexible rhythmic concept of classical-style composed chamber music with jazz harmonies, and phrasing and sound of improvised jazz. Although there is no...

The piece "Memory Lanes" is all about the emotion of Nostalgia. I find this emotion particularly powerful, as, although it carries a touch of melancholy and sadness, it signifies that there was a time...

The words of the Cantata Rejoice in the Lamb are taken from a long poem of the same name. The writer was Christopher Smart, an eighteenth century poet, deeply religious, but of a strange and unbalance...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Thanks to its skilful combination of Romantic melody and sparkling virtuosity, Koussevitzky's Double Bass Concerto op. 3 has been one of the most popular works of its genre since its Moscow premiere i...

Revised edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations for solo guitar which as been hailed as 'The guitar transcription of the 20th Century'.

György Ligeti's "Lux aeterna" from 1966 is a milestone in contemporary choral music. The work for sixteen-part mixed choir a cappella sets the Latin text of the Communio from the Mass for the Dead. Th...

In a typical tango atmosphere, a melancholy, sensual melody opens the first piece. Then a simple but intense song unfolds, in a sometimes thin, sometimes passionate setting. The last piece is rhythmic...