Advanced Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

Composed on commission in 2004 by the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the Chapter of the Winchester Cathedral, this is a setting of text from Canto XXXIII of Dante's Il Paradiso. It was first performed...

Diese Vertonung einiger Passage aus der Offenbarung des Johannes besitzt einen besonderen Bezug zu den Engeln, die mit sieben Trompetenstößen erscheinen und verschiedene apokalyptische Szenarien ankün...

Ictus is a fast percussion ostinato; the continuous movement in changing metres, often with strong dynamic contrasts in the smallest of spaces, is divided among the instruments. The combination of tom...

Following the success of Kathryn Salfelder's Cathedrals (2009), the American Bandmasters Association commissioned her to create this new work for band. Premiered at the 2010 ABA National Convention, C...

Commissioned in celebration of renowned conductor/educator Frank Battisti's 85th birthday, Spring Overture is an energetic rondo that can serve as a rousing opener or closer to either half of a concer...

Das 1944 entstandene Musical On the Town war Leonard Bernsteins erster Ausflug auf die Bühnen des Broadway. Inspiriert von seinem erfolgreichen Ballett Fancy Free, erzählt Bernsteins Musical von den A...

Note by Christina & Michelle Naughton, to whom the piece is dedicated and who recorded it for Warner Classics:'In addition to being a brilliant adaption of the orchestral piece, the four-hand version...

Anmerkung des Komponisten:Wenn man von 'Quartett' spricht, stellt man sich normalerwiese ein Streichquartett vor. In meinem Fall hat ein Quartett aus zwei Klavieren und zwei Schlaginstrumenten in viel...

Composer's note:The use of descansos is a tradition that comes from Spanish culture. Traditionally, descansos were used to mark the place where weary pallbearers would set a coffin down in a funeral p...

Marsyas is a character from Greek mythology. A master of the aulos, he was the adversary of the lyre-playing Apollo. When Apollo ordered musicians to accompany themselves when singing, Marsyas' fate w...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Symphonic Dances was Rachmaninoff’s final major work. Inon Barnatan comments, A few years ago, I came across a unique recording from 1940: a rough, private capture of Rachmaninoff playing through his...