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...

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...

In Variations on a Theme by A. Saba, Mehran Rouhani transforms a historical theme into a large-scale, virtuosic piano work of striking depth and character. The piece explores contrast, development, an...

Domestic Suite is a substantial advanced piano suite by Iranian composer Mehran Rouhani, combining virtuosity with a deeply personal voice. Each movement offers a distinct character and pianistic worl...

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...

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...

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...