Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Zambezi is the last movement from the Trombone Concerto. It begins with a cheerful samba, which is replaced by a jazzy melody, before it comes to a kind of "competition" between soloist and pianist. A...

The work "Fragments" is an extremely powerful and energetic concertino for trombone, full of different timbres, based on two motifs that are broken down into their fragments and further processed. The...

String Quartet No. 2 begins and ends with musical ideas that were in the back of my mind in some form or other since my teens. In the process of moving house during 2020 I rediscovered some old minidi...

Concubia nocte is the second of four compositions to refer to the Roman vigils. The work primarily features quartertone harmonies and revolves around the topics of dusk, night, spheres, dreams, sleepl...

In Woven from Light, two voices meet within a shimmering field of sound and motion. Fluctuating, floating textures unfold into lyrical lines that search, respond, mirror and intertwine. These fragile...

The Four Moments "Playful", "Crazy", "Hidden" and "Transfigured" for flute and string orchestra were composed in the style of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Several quotations from...

'Songs of sorrow, songs of joy' is a homage to John Dowland. What is perhaps his most intimate lute song, 'In darkness let me dwell', is heard in full in this Viola Concerto in orchestral apparel, tho...

Im Streiflicht (in raking light) is a single-movement work that unfolds within a field of tension between continuity and interruption. Shifting sound planes form a constantly changing texture in which...

The title "Dark or Bright?" already announces the contrast that structures this three-part work. Louis Kroni develops an expressive architecture that plays with contrasts of color, mood and energy. Th...

Improvisation on Norske Folketone. In the quodlibet in particular, in which all three chorales are to be heard simultaneously, it is necessary to produce greater transparency by means of careful regis...

This organ piece contains the contrapuntal combination of two songs: an old Tuscan folk song (Dormi mia bella) and the madrigal 'Matona, mia cara', which had been used before by Orlando di Lasso for a...

With this piece, the composer wanted to create a dream-like experience for the listener. In each of the four movements (Absence, Caprice, Nocturne and The Return), a different dream state is evoked wi...

At a time when our social climate increasingly threatens to be thrown off kilter by the aggression we are experiencing in the world, it would seem that we are more than ever in need of Harmonia, the G...

The basic idea of Parallels was to combine the flexible rhythmic concept of classical-style composed chamber music with jazz harmonies, and phrasing and sound of improvised jazz. Although there is no...

This grade 6 original was written to showcase a player's virtuosity and agility on an instrument that's too seldom given the artistic credit it deserves. The 3-part work features a heroic main theme,...

Commissioned by Han Mei and Randy Rainer-Reusch with the support of a Canada Council for the Arts grant. dancing shadow autumn moon is the third piece composed between 2000-2003, each reflects a stage...