Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Nikolai Kapustin's "Theme and Variations, Op. 80", composed in 1996, is a captivating masterpiece that brilliantly fuses the elegance of classical form with the infectious energy of jazz. In this soph...

Nikolai Kapustin composed the Impromptu op. 83 in 1997 and later recorded it for the CD „Last Recording“, which was released in Japan in 2004.

Three for Two. Triptych for 2 pianos op. 145 was written by Kapustin in 2012 for the Japanese piano duo PiaNA, consisting of Natsuki Nishimoto and Asuka Matsumoto.

Alles klingt hier zunächst ganz leicht. Die Töne hüpfen durch- und übereinander wie von einem Zauberer beschworen. Doch so ganz glatt läuft es nicht, hier und da hakt es, Noten kommen sich in die Quer...

The young Sudhana, protagonist of several Asian writings, meets nine teachers on his journey. After each encounter, he processes the experienced and learned. In the process, all of the figures that ha...

The three so-called War Sonatas Nos. 6–8 were composed in the years 1939–1944, while Prokofiev was evacuated from Moscow to Kazakhstan and the Caucasus. The reference to the siege of Leningrad was a p...

Schönberg’s publisher Emil Hertzka provided the impetus for composition of the Piano Piece op. 33a in 1928. In fact, he had merely asked for permission to print an older work in the collection Musik d...

In the “Nocturnes” for orchestra and women’s chorus, composed between 1897 and 1899, Debussy realised his concept that the musical form should emerge freely from the material. With the tripartite stru...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini was his last and at the same time most significant work for piano and orchestra. As a cycle of variations on Paganini's 24th Caprice from op. 1, i...

With his Études-Tableaux Rachmaninoff continued down the path that Chopin and Liszt had already set out on with their concert etudes: the most demanding technical tasks are presented in the form of ex...

The toccata genre has undergone great change since Bach’s time. Originally denoting works of recitative or improvisatory character, since the 19th century the emphasis has been on a continuous pulsati...

The Five Piano Pieces op. 23 are a transitional work in which Schönberg made the decisive step from free atonal music to composition based on tone rows, which however did not yet necessarily have to c...

Out of admiration for the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, Ravel had already planned a waltz composition in 1906, the realisation of which was hindered by other projects and the outbreak of the First Worl...

Volkmar Andreae, longtime chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, composed the Piano Concerto in D during his studies in Cologne where he premiered it himself in 1898. He dedicated the conce...

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of the most important piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites w...

Acknowledging the lack of original repertoire for his instrument, Nicholas Lens wrote this collection of individual studies and movements. Having been written specifically for the double bass as a ful...

Ich habe mein Bestes gegeben, das ursprüngliche Werk originalgetreu wiederzugeben. Allerdings tauchen in der Bearbeitung Stellen auf, an denen Klänge umgestaltet wurden, damit sie den technischen Beso...

Discover a masterful work for tenor horn and piano with the captivating "Sonatina", published by the renowned Editions Bim. This expressive piece perfectly captures the rich tonal spectrum and lyrical...