Advanced Concert Music Sheet Music

Audivi Media Nocte is based on the eponymous motet by Thomas Tallis from the 16th Century - a work that holds great fascination for Oliver Waespi. During the process of composition, various chord sequ...

Dedicated to the memory of Robin Williams, a man who could make the furniture laugh.

Knocking at Heaven's Gate brings us into brief contact with heaven through music. There are beautiful solos for euphonium and flugelhorn in the piece, and the trumpets and trombones also play an impor...

Knocking at Heaven's Gate brings us into brief contact with heaven through music. There are beautiful solos for euphonium and flugelhorn in the piece, and the trumpets and trombones also play an impor...

Der Titel dieser Komposition ergab sich aus der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Musikverein Steinheim am Albuch. Der jährliche musikalische Höhepunkt im Frühjahr trägt den Titel 'Meteoritmo' - und bei einer Au...

Alienus – a word that means more than just the alien. It stands for the foreign, the unfamiliar, the different. For what comes from outside – and yet awakens questions deep within ourselves. In this w...

The composition Mirage is inspired by the ghost ship from the legend "The Flying Dutchman", a story deeply rooted in seafaring culture. The ship, condemned to sail the seas forever, often appears on t...

Tango for Joe explores the lyrical properties of the trombone. A long introduction builds to the first entry of the soloist, who plays the main tango melody over a rhythmic accompaniment. In this work...

Commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in 1998, this dynamic work combines 'frantic' and 'energy' to form the title, speaking volumes to the nature and verve of the character of the music. Fo...

Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this set...

Die "Kubanische Ouvertüre" ist ein lebhaftes und hochemotionales Stück mit den typischen Rhythmen des berühmten Komponisten G. Gershwin. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad liegt bei 5 und die Arrangements stammen...

Eigentlich entstand diese Musik zu einem Film in den 30ziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts. Aber, obwohl der Film hier nicht so bekannt wurde, hat diese Ouvertüre aus der Filmmusik international Kar...

Eigentlich entstand diese Musik zu einem Film in den 30ziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts. Aber, obwohl der Film hier nicht so bekannt wurde, hat diese Ouvertüre aus der Filmmusik international Kar...

No blockbuster can do without music. One might almost add: hardly any orchestral concert today can do without film music. Film music in concerts is booming. Crime films in their various forms have lon...

The beautiful and haunting Irish folk song 'Carrickfergus' was almost lost and forgotten to the ages, had it not been for the Irish-born actor Peter O'Toole, who sang the song to his friend, recording...

Nordic Capriccio, Op. 28, was composed in 1943. About its creation, Erland von Koch wrote: This was my first composition that truly expressed my emerging interest in folk music. The foundation is an o...

Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's 'Young Person's Guide' follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this setting for wind ban...

'Die Moldau' (Vltava) is the second movement of the the symphonic poem cycle 'Ma Vlast' by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. In this piece, Smetana uses tone painting to evoke the sounds of one of Bohem...

The 'Piano Concerto No. 1' in B-flat minor, Op. 23, is one of the most popular of Tschaikowsky's compositions and among the best known of all piano concertos. The concerto follows the traditional form...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...