Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

The work "Les Jardins de Thémis" is both a tribute to my dear friends and outstanding duet partners, Florence Creugny and Alexandre Bernoud, to their most captivating, expressive, profound, and passio...

Manuel de Falla’s "Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy" is regarded as one of the masterpieces of our repertoire. Written in 1920, it is the composer’s only work originally conceived for the gu...

Don Quixote is a five-movement sonata for guitar based on the celebrated novels by Miguel de Cervantes. After introducing the three principal characters in the opening movements, the music depicts a s...

The Alchemist is loosely based on Paolo Coelho’s celebrated novel – a moving story about Santiago, a shepherd boy from Andalusia, realising his dreams. The sonata is also about the art and symbolism o...

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...

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...

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...

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...