Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Scriabin's early Etudes op. 8 are at the heart of virtuoso piano repertoire, their methodical and pedagogical intent clearly visible. However, they are also 12 character pieces, revealing Scriabin's w...

Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is enti...

Seasons', 'A Symphony for Brass Quintet', was composed during the summer of 1986. It was written specifically for the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, of which John Stevens is a member. The composition of thi...

The virtuoso Allen Vizzutti knows the trumpet like the back of his hand. His pedagogical strategy within these Advanced Etudes, merging technical challenges and musicianship, leads evidently to effici...

This is the Friedrich Hofmeister edition of Alexej Lebedjew's Concerto No.1 which was originally scored for Tuba or Bass Trombone and Orchestra. This edition has a Piano reduction of the original Orch...

Ravel/ed. by Weekley & Arganbright: Maurice Ravel based the five pieces in this remarkable suite on French 'Mother Goose' nursery tales. Laideronnette, Impératrice Des Pagodes, is entirely set in the...

In 2023, Tim De Maeseneer asked composer Stijn Roels to write a solo work for tenor horn and piano, as a special piece for his second solo CD; a lyrical composition in which Tim, as a professional ten...

In the field of New Music, Sofia Gubaidulina's 'De profundis' has already achieved the status of a classic. It is not only an attainment of the New Music that instruments are capable of approaching th...

Bob Vos (1910-1963) was a Dutch composer who studied composition with Henk Badings at the Brussels Conservatory from 1957. Unfortunately, little is known about his early years, but his work shows a cl...

This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absu...

Inspired by the historical structures submerged beneath the waters of Lake ?znik, this composition by Faz?l Say presents a new narrative space shaped around history, memory, and imagination. ?znik (hi...

Alban Berg's Sonata Opus 1 for Piano has often been termed as a milestone in early 20th century music. The sonata clearly stems from the Romantic period, but the 'modern' harmonies and complex themati...

Like so many famous virtuosic works, Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin was said, by its commissioner, Yehudi Menuhin, at first sight, to be unplayable! Of course, Menuhin soon changed his opinion, later...

Yiruma SOLO: Original is the authorised collection from the best-selling album SOLO, written and scored by Yiruma for piano solo. Yiruma’s musical journey began at age five, when a fascination with th...

On the 150th anniversary of the death of Ferruccio Busoni, G. Henle Publishers is issuing one of his most important original works for piano solo. In light of his popular Bach arrangements, it is easy...

I fell in love with the recorder writing this piece. What's the most magic music you can make with a single line instrument. In a post-technological landscape, a small crowd gathers around, to bath in...

In eleven contrasting miniatures, this solo work explores the tonal and technical possibilities of the cello. Created during the COVID-19 lockdown, the cycle sees itself as a musical dialog between pl...

Fast Darkness III is the last part of the trilogy Fast Darkness, 2020-2022. Written in 2022, it is a 16 minutes long virtuosic, wild, and overgrown exploration. Fast gestures, drawn by a sharp pen and...

Wind Songs is a set of three songs for voice and viola which uses three Irish texts - one medieval, one traditional and one contemporary, to evoke three characteristic winds. The Wind Songs were writt...

With the 4th String Quartet, Op. 22, Paul Hindemith opens up new realms of expression and develops his art of quartet writing with unwavering consistency. In five contrasting movements, the work combi...

Washing up flower smells don't drink the soap it'll make you sick. Gunge odours and lucid states of decay. Do you choose? Will you loose the space around you? Super-Munch them 1 by 1 on the library co...