Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

In seinem „Herbstblatt“ zeichnet Heinz Holliger die Biografie des Komponisten Gideon Klein nach, der im KZ Auschwitz-Fürstenau ermordet wurde. Als Erinnerungsschatten streut Holliger Zitate aus Werken...

The Bridges of Newcastle by Garth Knox was composed for the 14th Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and is an imaginary musical cruise down the Tyne river on a viola, passing under each of...

Of the five works that Johanna Senfter wrote for viola and piano, the Variations op. 94, completed at the beginning of the 1940s, are certainly her most sophisticated composition in terms of harmony a...

What is it like to become a stranger to yourself? A loss of memory due to traumatic experiences or dementia is addressed in a fascinating way in this composition, with the resonating strings of the vi...

This arrangement of the three-part compilation published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as on later piano transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the harmonies, chro...

The works Trois Pièces de concert exude an overall French atmosphere. They were composed by Simon Laks in his early years in Paris for the former solo cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gér...

Das Stück wurde von einem Kollegen Brett Deans bei den Berliner Philharmonikern, dem Bratscher Walter Küssner, in Auftrag gegeben als Teil eines CD-Projektes mit Werken für Bratsche solo 1998/99. Seit...

The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos. “While in the concertos for violin and piano, in the Double Concerto, and in my new sheng concerto I was seeking to...

Eine Neuerscheinung aus der Cello-Bibliothek: Pendereckis Konzertstück für drei Violoncelli und Orchester gibt es jetzt auch als übersichtlichen Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen - das große, dreisätzige...

This arrangement of the three-part collection published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as later pianoforte transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The harmonies, chromati...

Jörg Widmann composed this short piece in 2015 for the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. In this piece, the cello is used in an anything but classical manner: The hands hit the fingerboard, the fingers...

Kian Soltani played the world premiere of this solo work, which was commissioned by the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. In addition to scordatura effects, Widmann masterfully explores the sound worlds an...

It was a pleasure to respond to Sol Gabetta's invitation to contribute a piece to her "Songs Without Words" project with Bertrand Chamayou. The title is closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn Barth...

These four pieces were composed during 2018 and 2019. Each movement may be performed individually, as a sequence of two or three movements in any order, or as a set of all four movements in the order...

Many years ago I saw a sculpture of Anish Kapoor: in this sculpture there were two huge halved orbs hanging from two sides of the room. The halved orbs were dark purple blue, which was so dark that th...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Sergei Prokofiev´s Ballade for Cello and Piano Op. 15 was composed in 1912 while Prokofiev was still a student and marks an important milestone in his early work, having grown from an earlier violin s...

> An effective concertante piece > An addition to the more demanding repertoire > Practical page turns There are songbirds and birds whose bird calls are less than cantabile. In the garden of Rome's V...