Advanced Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the oppos...

Unsuk Chin komponierte ihr Violinkonzert 2001 als ein Auftragswerk des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters in Berlin, bei dem sie Composer in Residence war. Die Uraufführung erfolgte im Januar 2002 in Berl...

First publication of the orchestral cycle Songs of Travel, setting poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. Three of the nine orchestrations are by the composer, dating from 1905; the remainder were scored by...

The Death of Oscar (2012) is a miniature tone poem drawing upon the legend of the bardic poet Ossian and the death of his son Oscar. In the legends of Ossian, Oscar challenged the High King Cairbre to...

17-minute work for full orchestra commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. First performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 1997. The composer comments:'The...

Composed in 2021 and dedicated to the soloist Nicola Benedetti, this work was written as a memorial tribute to the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died the previous year and was a major musi...

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

This exciting and virtuosic piece was commissioned by the Buffet Group to celebrate its 190th anniversary as a manufacturer of wind instruments. It was premiered in July 2013 by the Simón Bolívar Band...

This exciting and virtuosic piece was commissioned by the Buffet Group to celebrate its 190th anniversary as a manufacturer of wind instruments. It was premiered in July 2013 by the Simón Bolívar Band...

The "Sonata Vox Gabrieli", commissioned by the International Trombone Association, has quickly become a world bestseller since its publication in 1973. The beautiful, highly expressive, captivating, n...

The "Sonata Vox Gabrieli", commissioned by the International Trombone Association, has quickly become a world bestseller since its publication in 1973. The beautiful, highly expressive, captivating, n...

This work was commissioned for the occasion of my 80th birthday (November 11, 1997). Composed in 1996, the piece consists of three movements, each a tribute to someone: 1) 'Hommage à I'Interprete' ('...

This work was commissioned for the occasion of my 80th birthday (November 11, 1997). Composed in 1996, the piece consists of three movements, each a tribute to someone: 1) 'Hommage à I'Interprete' ('...