Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

FIN DE SIÈCLE presents a new album of solo compositions by Thomas Fellow for concert guitar. The 15 pieces in this edition reflect his artistic interpretation of the turn of the 20th century – a time...

Fünf Jahre nach der ersten habe ich mich angeschickt, eine zweite Sonate für die von mir geliebte Gitarre zu schreiben. Und nicht nur um den Gesamttitel des Zyklus' (der hiermit geschlossen ist) beibe...

My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of our discontent', and of generating more music from that material, was conceived during the 1960s. Ten years lat...

Anton Webern's late instrumental works have always been admired as examples of a systematic, innovative application of twelve-tone technique. From our perspective today, however, the reliance on older...

Three Fantasies is a 17-minute triptych showcasing the composer’s technical and atmospheric mastery of the instrument with which he is most closely associated. The first of its panels is a darkly fant...

An historic addition to the advanced keyboard repertoire, this critical and performing edition presents Price's Four Fantasies for Piano in their entirety for the first time. This spectacular set show...

Are you looking for new piano pieces in Newclassic style? Then this music book is the right choice! The pieces of the NEW FLOW FOR PIANO are written in a musically and thematically very clear language...

Considered as one of the masterworks of 20th century piano literature, this critical edition utilizes interpretive clues from such noted French pianists and pedagogues as Casadesus, Perlemuter, and Ci...

Debussy verbindet seine '12 Préludes' des ersten Heftes nicht durch ein tonartliches Schema, sondern durch eine Kette assoziativer Mottos oder Titel, die er den Stücken jeweils am Ende folgen lässt un...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy's Préludes was published in 1913. Here the music reflects the impressions of Stravinsky's music on the composer. In...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano piece 'Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este' that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: 'Jeux d'eau'. Laid out in sonata form, its sound is gove...

Mit seinen zwischen 1914 und 1916 komponierten 'Douze Préludes' op. 36 und 'Trois Nocturnes' op. 35 knüpft Vierne an die romantische Klaviertradition an, lässt die historischen Modelle freilich in jen...

No genre reflects Skrjabin's artistic evolution more vividly than his piano sonatas. Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 and 8 which are presented in this edition were written between 1911 and 1913, at times contempora...

The work, which the composer counts among her favourite pieces, was inspired by the life and work of Marguerite Duras. In her play of the same name, a Flemish woman goes to Saigon at the beginning of...

Between 1995 and 2003 the composer York Höller from Cologne created 14 highly demanding piano pieces which are not only tone pictures, but also compositional reflections on persons personally close to...

For her concerts marking the anniversary of '50 Years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel' the pianist Heidrun Holtmann asked several authors to write compositions. Being under the impr...

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

Composer's note:When pianist Inon Barnatan asked me to write him a new work, he had a particular stipulation: that I somehow connect my piece with Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, which he would program al...

Roland Szentpális’s "3 Piano Pieces" is a piano triptych dedicated to Henrik Szőcs that combines virtuosity with sonic imagination. Through three contrasting musical images, the composer unfolds diffe...

Roland Szentpális’s "3 Piano Pieces" is a piano triptych dedicated to Henrik Szőcs that combines virtuosity with sonic imagination. Through three contrasting musical images, the composer unfolds diffe...

This composition was the first one I wrote after returning to Europe from Brazil in 2000. Its main characteristic would be a kind of "return to simplicity." It was a time of transition that shaped my...

This composition was the first one I wrote after returning to Europe from Brazil in 2000. Its main characteristic would be a kind of "return to simplicity." It was a time of transition that shaped my...