Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

With this energetic work, Jirka Kadlec takes up one of the most famous themes in the classical repertoire: Niccolò Paganini's famous Capriccio No. 24. While retaining the virtuosity and striking chara...

With this energetic work, Jirka Kadlec takes up one of the most famous themes in the classical repertoire: Niccolò Paganini's famous Capriccio No. 24. While retaining the virtuosity and striking chara...

The composer Alfred Bösendorfer has always been particularly interested in different countries and their very own culture and music. With this composition, the self-confessed cosmopolitan takes us int...

Not only mathematics are enjoying the privilege of the most astonishing combinations, arts, architecture get advantage of this multiplicity: spaces, ecuacions sounds, paintings or music -of course-. B...

Mit seiner 2017 in Glyndebourne uraufgeführten Oper Hamlet fügte der Komponist Brett Dean den gewiss zahlreichen künstlerischen Auseinandersetzungen mit dem berühmten Stoff eine neue, moderne hinzu mi...

Commissioned by Craig Ogden and the Cheltenham Music Festival, with funds generously provided by Paul Miron, Peter & Veronica Lofthouse and the Cheltenham Festival Society. Air with Variations was fir...

Estelas ('Memorial Stones') was premiered in New York on March 16, 1977 by Uruguayan guitarist Abel Carlevaro who subsequently performed the piece in France and Colombia. The history of this little-kn...

Music for the Dark Hours was composed with the idea of evoking a night-scape of mood and scene. The individual pieces’ titles carry only a single material meaning on the surface, but the music ranges...

Rechordatio is both an act of remembrance and a gesture of gratitude. The piece grows from two musical relationships that have been deeply meaningful to me: my encounters with the Italian composer Ang...

Life is music, and music is life. It may sound cliché, perhaps, but it's true. A playful musical theme slips into everyday life and sparks the imagination—and the fingers—of four guitarists wandering...

Meteōros (μετέωρος) means "suspended aloft," "elevated," or "existing in the air." The word refers to something that is not fully anchored to the earth, a condition poised between weight and lightness...

Irrévérente was first conceived on a steel-string guitar before taking its final form as a work for solo classical guitar in Baltimore during the 2020 lockdown. At that time, my wife, Alexandra Iranfa...

Capriccio is a work that pays homage to guitar composers who have influenced me, such as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Manuel Ponce. Not by using their themes, but rather through the harmonic language...

Opening is a piece inspired by the music of Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger. I wanted to recreate the evocative, delicate, and meditative atmosphere found in this incredible musician’s performan...

Three Miniature Sketches was commissioned by James Stroud for the 2026 James Stroud Youth Competition. The work was inspired by Mr. Stroud's suggestions and is conceived as a set of three contrasting...

Don Quixote is a five-movement sonata for guitar based on the celebrated novels by Miguel de Cervantes. After introducing the three principal characters in the opening movements, the music depicts a s...

The Alchemist is loosely based on Paolo Coelho’s celebrated novel – a moving story about Santiago, a shepherd boy from Andalusia, realising his dreams. The sonata is also about the art and symbolism o...

Modal Fantasy makes extensive use of the musical material I originally employed in my composition Bulgaresque No. 3 for saxophone and guitar. I felt that the guitar part possessed sufficient developme...

FIN DE SIÈCLE presents a new album of solo compositions by Thomas Fellow for concert guitar. The 15 pieces in this edition reflect his artistic interpretation of the turn of the 20th century – a time...