Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

In eleven contrasting miniatures, this solo work explores the tonal and technical possibilities of the cello. Created during the COVID-19 lockdown, the cycle sees itself as a musical dialog between pl...

When you come to a river... place your hand into its belly, feel the energy, stroke its power, says the poem by American author Laura Tohe, who grew up in the Navajo tradition. Thierry Péocu accompani...

Mike Svoboda continues his series of Concert Etudes for Solo Trombone consistently with Etudes Nos. 6 and 7. While the first five pieces of the ten-part collection were primarily pedagogically motivat...

My second string trio is a more large-scale piece than the compact, single-movement first, written just over a decade ago. It is made up of seven short movements, each one picking up an idea, or a not...

With the 4th String Quartet, Op. 22, Paul Hindemith opens up new realms of expression and develops his art of quartet writing with unwavering consistency. In five contrasting movements, the work combi...

Highly regarded for the finesse and elegance of her spirited, humorous writing, the composer Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999) wrote numerous works for a variety of instruments, collaborating also with the re...

Suite, consisting of six short pieces for alto saxophone and piano, is a virtuoso work for this duo. I composed my Suite in 2014 in commission of the legendary saxophone virtuoso Mr. Sugawa with whom...

Harlequin was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, euphonium virtuoso David Childs. The piece takes as its inspiration the happy and sad masks which symbolise the Commedia dell'Arte (which features H...

Even as a young musician, Otto M. Schwarz played numerous works in the baroque style on the trumpet. Inspired by these student days, he is now composing new works 'in the style of…'. We open with a fe...

Featuring four original movements in classic dance styles, this unique suite for proficient soloists with piano offers performers with several unique options–the solo material may be played entirely o...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)

This collection contains works from the so-called 'Belle Époque', the time period right around the turn of the 20th century which have been arranged for flute and piano by Franco Cesarini. It includes...

Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris' Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!...

In 1929, Olivier Messiaen finished composing his Préludes. The first original work for piano of a twenty-one-year-old composer, it would be the first to be included in his official catalogue. This col...

With performance notes (in French) by the composer for each movement. Contents: Regard du Père - Regard de l'étoile - L'échange - Regard de la Vierge - Regard du Fils sur le Fils - Par Lui tout a été...

Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives – 20 “fleeting visions” – in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his na...

Rachmaninoff's legendary Opus 18, often lovingly referred to as 'Rach 2,' is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901, it proved to be a...