Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

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...

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...

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...

Immerse yourself in the evocative poetry of "Fleuve d'oubli" – an expressive work for solo piano, published by the prestigious and historic Éditions Durand. As the title ("River of Oblivion") suggests...

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...

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...

The virtuoso Toccatina from the 8 Concert Studies Op. 40 is most popular piano piece by Kapustin. On YouTube one can find recordings of numerous pianists. Its use in the opening credits of the compute...

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...