Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

I met Milcho Leviev in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and we enjoyed many years of productive collaboration in both recording and live performance. My Three Psalms for solo piano are strongly influence...

This work for solo piano joins a series of my compositions built around the improvisatory form of the Renaissance ricercar. The Chant, which functions here as a preamble to the ricercar, establishes t...

A great-grandson of the painter Constant Dutilleux, a close friend of Eugène Delacroix, a grandson of the composer Julien Koszul and a friend of Gabriel Fauré, Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) was immersed...

Composed and recomposed for 7 years, Bill Hopkins's Études en série is a monumental nine-part cycle for piano. First conceived as Études pour rien, the work began as a pedagogical project before evolv...

Written in memory of American composer Steve Stucky and recorded by Grammy winning pianist Gloria Cheng as part of a collection of tributes. A light and optimistic piece filled with bursts of notes ri...

Prayer was one of seven new works performed at Spannungen chamber music festival in memory of Lars Vogt (1970-2022).

The initial stimulus for this set of pieces was a painting by Kandinsky, Composition VII (1913). The painting represents a period when he was concerned with emotional, abstract paintings of two sorts:...

Summertime Variations is the third arrangement I have made of Gershwin's Summertime - and the first for solo piano. It begins and ends very quietly and cantabile with a meditation on the well-known op...

Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pav...

In the context of the Petrushka project initiated by Schott Music, several dance pieces by various composers were written. On this occasion, en passant was created, only afterwards were two further pi...

As implied by the title Sonatina facile, this piano piece is an homage to Mozart's famous Sonata in C major K. 545. Not only are the movement headings Allegro - Andante - Rondo identical, but Jörg Wid...

Nicolai Kapustin's Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 77 was composed in 1995. In this single-movement work he develops three contrasting themes: a rhapsodic, Scriabinesque opening section, a quirky, offbeat sche...

Jazz rock at a high speed! The character of the piece is clear from the title. The tremendous driving force and rocky jazz theme make this piano miniature a fun and spectacular show piece!

The Humoresque op. 75 - composed in 1994 - is considered one of the most difficult pieces by Kapustin. Presented in the standard jazz form, the variations sound like improvisations, influenced by McCo...

Kapustin composed the 3 Etudes op. 67 in 1992. The first étude, entitled Glissandi, is written in a swing jazz mood. In No. 2 Ripetizione the difficulty lies in the complexity of the rhythm. No.3 Grap...

Virtuoser Jazz in klassischer Form: Nikolai Kapustin (geb. 1937) ist ein exzellenter Jazz-Pianist, Arrangeur und Komponist. Seine Klaviersonaten werden nun erstmals von Schott Music herausgegeben. Die...

Igor Strawinskys Meisterwerk Symphony in Three Movements gehört seit seiner Uraufführung zum orchestralen Standardrepertoire der klassischen Moderne. Die Fassung für 2 Klaviere von Richard Rijnvos ist...

In his III Piano Sonata op. 86, Heucke explores the question of whether the form "sonata" can stand up to the tonal language of the present day. Melody and harmony must always be re-evaluated by the l...