Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

In June 1905, Ravel told a friend shortly before setting off on a long holiday: 'I was terribly busy because of a piece for harp commissioned by the Érard company. I was able to finish it after a fash...

Since 2019, G. Henle Publishers has been the proud agent for Evgeny Kissin’s compositions, which have reached work number 6 with this Piano Trio composed in 2022. Following piano pieces, a violoncello...

'Zeitspuren' ('Time traces') was commissioned by the Swiss Piano Trio in 2018 and premiered at the Swiss Chamber Concerts. The title 'Zeitspuren' indicates references to Beethoven's piano trio music.

Daniel Schnyder was so excited about the prospects of working with Kenny Drew jr. and David Taylor that he wrote something that he deemed impossible to play at the time. Today, the piece is still a gr...

In fliessenden Räumen (In Flowing Spaces) was composed in 2026 on commission from Camerata Variabile and is dedicated to its artistic director, Helena Winkelman. The quartet conceives sound as somethi...

Experience Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's moving 'Autumn Song' in a masterly arrangement by the renowned Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. Originally composed for solo piano as part of Tchaikovsky's famou...

Trittico Eclettico entstand auf Wunsch von Arno Piters, Klarinettist beim Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Der Titel Trittico Eclettico (eklektisches Triptychon) bezieht sich auf die drei S...

Piri came into being two and a half years after Isang Yun was imprisoned in Seoul. 'Piri' is the name of the traditional Korean oboe, of which at least three kinds exist in different sizes. They were (...

Cantabile, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, is an extensive work that makes use of many of the virtues and clichés of the viola (leisureliness, melancholy, gloominess etc.), but that also refutes t...

Final(ment)e, Interplay of relationships for two trumpets and orchestra, was composed as an atmospheric counterpart to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Several quotations from that monumental work flowed...

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...

Embark on a fascinating musical voyage of discovery with "Unexplored Lands", published by Editions Marc Reift. This evocative work for trumpet or cornet and piano transports soloists and audiences ali...

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...

The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, with whom...