Advanced Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

3 November 2004 is the tenth anniversary of the death of Isang Yun - an appropriate occasion for important performances and the publication of new editions of his compositions.This arrangement of the...

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...

Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow’s McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, "My first string quartet, Visions of a November S...

Anmerkung des Komponisten:Die Primula vulgaris ist eine in Europa heimische Pflanze, die auch unter dem Namen 'English Primrose' ('Stängellose Schlüsselblume') bekannt und ein willkommener Anblick im...

A new edition of this “must have” classic, the three movements of An Original Suite provide compelling contrasts – from the stately march of the beginning to the andante second movem...

Nne na Tatu (Swahili for 'Four on Three') is inspired by the music of sub-Saharan Africa and other world music traditions. Like many of those traditions, Nne na Tatu is driven by relentless percussion...

Nne na Tatu (Swahili for 'Four on Three') is inspired by the music of sub-Saharan Africa and other world music traditions. Like many of those traditions, Nne na Tatu is driven by relentless percussion...

A new edition of this 'must have' classic, the three movements of An Original Suite provide compelling contrasts - from the stately march of the beginning to the andante second movement, setting the s...

Everything Orpheus saw turned into sound. Full of emotions, he passed it on singing, and moved his environment. Those Klangbilder aim at this mysterious procedure.I Flügelschlag (beating the wings): t...

Detlev Glanert wrote his String Quartet No. 2 to mark the 80th birthday of his teacher Hans Werner Henze. The title suggests that the king of genres in chamber music can not only be a 'conversation' b...

Der kubanische Jazz-Klarinettist und Saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera ist auch als Komponist erfolgreich unterwegs. Dieses Stück ist ein venezolanischer 'Joropo', ein populärer Musikstil und Tanz des Land...

After his piano versions of Isang Yun's Flute Concerto and Violin Concerto No. 3, the pianist and Yun pupil Holger Groschopp now presents his piano arrangement of the Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra c...

Anmerkung des Komponisten:To Pauline O ist eine Sequenz, die auf einer Sequenz beruht. Alle zwölf Takte erklingt eine Note aus dem Lauda Sion, eine der fünf Sequenzenn der katholischen Liturgie. Pauli...

This edition is a compilation of Del Tredici's songs for baritone and piano. Apart from the song-cycle 'Gay Life' and the collection 'Three Baritone Songs', it also contains the two songs 'What Lips M...

Sean Shepherds Orchesterwerk Express Abstractionism, das zugleich ein Wortspiel ist, ist eine Antwort auf eine der bedeutendsten Bewegungen der bildenden Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Uraufgeführt im Fe...

Regiment of Heroes was written for and dedicated to 'The Presidents Own' United States Marine Band. This powerful composition opens with a lively syncopated figure followed by a contrasting melodic tr...

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...

Composer’s note O sacrum convivium was written in 2007 - it is one of my earliest choral compositions. Olivier Messiaen’s setting had a profound impact on me as a young chorister. As John Cooper, the...

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...

Lied ohne Worte was commissioned by the Ruhr Piano Festival for Alfred Brendel’s 75th birthday. First performed (as Lied) on 9 August 2006 with Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner, Wuppertal, Historische...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...