Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Solemn, redolent of Thalben Ball and useful for memorial occasions and Lent. One of our most popular Organ pieces! One of a set of 3 pieces written to celebrate a fellow organists milestone, being 45...

A descriptive and lyrical Organ solo suitable for Concert or Recital use. Reviews: "As always, Tim’s style is warmly lyrical and richly expressive, without becoming boringly predictable. I was delight...

Giles Taylor is another new Composer we welcome to our catalogue, continuing our policy of adding New Northern Music. This piece was written for Ripon Cathedral New Music Week and used at Choral Evens...

RANT! is a portrait of the saxophonist Jess Gillam: her energy, her sound and her presence, painted in music from her own part of England. A ‘rant' in the tradition of English folk music is an energet...

Maurice Ravel's Boléro is probably one of the most frequently performed works of orchestral literature. The composition originated between July and October 1928 and was dedicated to the dancer Ida Rub...

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...

Composer's notes: 'Once I received the commission by HD duo to compose a piece for sax and piano, I asked Michael Duke to select for me his favourite multiphonics for alto sax and send me a recording...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

A lamentation which speaks for itself: the sadness, the anger, the mourning and finally the resignation. This composition was written on request of, and in close collaboration with saxophonist Femke I...

Jörg Widmann, an internationally sought-after soloist and professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, displays the exquisite refinement of contemporary clarinet sound in 'Fünf Bruchstücke'...

Over the years, the saxophone quartet genre had been rather foreign to me – until I heard the Kebyart Ensemble. The homogeneity and virtuosity of the sound of these four young Catalan saxophonists mad...

This piece was written for Roger Bobo. The tuba, invented around 1830 has no original baroque repertoire, so these Variations in Olden Style were conceived after the Polonaise of the French Suite VI b...

The public persona of a comedian often conceals a sad person. The tuba, with its clumsy appearance, curiously expressive tone quality and capacity for technical agility largely unexplored, has long be...

The 5 Pezzi per mandolino solo presented here are part of the 31 works for solo mandolin composed by Raffaele Calace over the course of his career. With the exception of the first ten short pieces—lat...

Cent’anni finds its roots in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film The Godfather, which tells the odyssey of an Italian-American family in the United States. Speaking little Italian, the director transform...

The music of composer Pierre-Adrien Charpy is open to musical encounters. Attuned to the present and responsive to the currents of his time, it draws its roots from the history of music while branchin...

The Roman Emperor Tiberius was born in 42 BCE to Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla, both descendants of prestigious political families, at a time when Rome was undergoing significant political...

Journey South is inspired by the extraordinary migration of - monarch butterflies. Each year, millions of these delicate - creatures travel thousands of miles from North America to the - forests of ce...

This epic piece depicts the legendary monster Leviathan, ancient scourge of the seas. The fearsome creature is depicted in E dorian, featuring familiar bow rhythms supporting a melody that is passed a...

Jean Françaix (1912–1997) was a French composer and pianist known for his joyful, expressive music. He gained early recognition, studying under Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Ravel, and quickly became a...