Advanced Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

Bernstein's Mass was a monumental 90-minute work written for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. in 1971. In this suite commissioned by the Canadian B...

Clarinet studies in the past have been predominantly concerned with technical problems only. This collection, however, marks a new departure by selecting from the works of the great masters, passages...

Although Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition is often enjoyed in its original solo piano version, it is perhaps best known through its famous orchestration by Maurice Ravel, who masterfu...

Although Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition is often enjoyed in its original solo piano version, it is perhaps best known through its famous orchestration by Maurice Ravel, who masterfu...

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...

Premiered in August 2004 by Finnish guitar virtuoso Timo Korhonen and recorded by him on the Ondine label (ODE 1091-2), this is a tour de force of idiomatic, modern guitar writing from a composer whos...

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...

Beyond the White Hand: Construction with Guitar Player, was commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust and first performed at St John's Smith Square by Andrey Lebedev in 2014. This substantial addition to...

What if the probably most popular symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff were rewritten as a piece for piano and orchestra? This was the idea behind the 'adaptation' of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 into his...

Variations from the Golden Mountain was commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the partial support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffman, a Swiss grant making foundation. It was first perfo...

These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle's larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on...

Composer's note:When pianist Inon Barnatan asked me to write him a new work, he had a particular stipulation: that I somehow connect my piece with Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, which he would program al...

More than just a collection of difficult passages for the aspiring orchestral pro, these extracts from the classical, romantic and twentieth-century concert repertoire reveal the tricks of the trade.U...

Dieses erste Cellokonzert wurde vom Orchestre de Paris in Auftrag gegeben und 1999 von diesem Orchester zusammen mit Anssi Karttunen als Solisten unter der Leitung von Esa-Pekka Salonen uraufgeführt....

The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos. “While in the concertos for violin and piano, in the Double Concerto, and in my new sheng concerto I was seeking to...

Anmerkung des Herausgebers: Nachdem Osvald Gloijov seine Komposition 'Fish Tale' beendet hatte, nannte er sie ein 'Aquarell' - eine poetisch angemessene Beschreibung ihres glitschigen, flüssigen, dahi...

In The Woman and the Hare teilen sich Sopran und eine weibliche Sprecherin den Text, wobei jede in ihrer eigenen musikalischen Geschwindigkeit singt bzw. spricht. Die Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden...

Das Stück Allegro ma non troppo wurde im Winter 1993/94 im Elektronischen Studio der Technischen Universität realisiert und zum 50. Geburtstag von Folkmar Hein, seinem langjährigen Leiter, in Auftrag...

This work in four movements is inspired by the work of the photographer Richard Avedon, in particular the following images: * The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Waldorf Astoria, suite 28A, New York, Apr...

Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938, is incontestably one of the supreme creations of mo...

Ariel is scored for basset clarinet, violin, cello and piano, and is a response to the poem of the same name by Sylvia Plath. Simpson reacted to the poem musically, jotting down the ideas for instrume...

Eine dreisätzige Elegie für das alte und neue Kuba, die die harten Umstände der Revolution und die darauffolgende Vertreibung thematisiert. Der Komponist erklärt: 'Für den ersten Satz Havanna Dreams h...

Composer's note: Beware Of combines tape with alto flute, viola, and harp. The tape comprises a poem by, and read by, Colleen Clyne, with snippets of recordings from the instrumental parts, played by...