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By the age of forty, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg was one of the busiest concert composers in the world. His music avails itself of all manner of modern innovations, but there is a Neo-Classical o...

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels 12th October 2001. Composer's Notes: I have been very familiar with the flute since my earli...

The second of the Quartets commissioned by the Naxos label was completed in January 2003. This work swings between nervous virtuosic energy to the serene calm of an extended Lento, with exotic harmoni...

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel...

This is the full score of Aheym for String Quartet, composed by Bryce Dessner, best known as the guitarist of The National, but also an acclaimed composer in his own right. Composed in 2009 for the Kr...

British composer Michael Nyman 'discovered' this work when he played Leporello's catalogue aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni on the Piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis. He has written that that...

Work for 2 Trumpets, 2 Horns and 2 Trombones premiered in the Museum of Scotland in 1998 by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxwell Davies has relished incorporating brilliant tuckets and a...

Five Sketches' was commissioned by Nicholas Logie and first performed by him on 31 May 1984 at the Wigmore Hall. Quoting Maconchy: I have always had a particular affection for the viola with its dark...

This work was commissioned by Roger Chase. First performance on 16th February 2009, at the Stradivari Music and Arts Center, Chicago.

André Previn is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world today and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work a...

For Solo Cello.

A series of short pieces dedicated to renowned cellist Anssi Karttunen, presented during a concert in celebration of his fiftieth birthday in Helsinki in 2010. The concert was based around the Mystery...

Sonata for Oboe and Piano, duration c. 16-17 minutes.

Calices was commissioned by Fundacion Albeniz for the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, Madrid.

This work was commissioned by Bill Colleran. It was first performed by David Alberman on 19th November 2005, at St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. T...

Moussorgsky was on a recital tour of southern Russia when he was inspired to write the Song of the Flea. It became popular immediately with audiences and remains so today. The correct title is The Son...

Full Score of Saariaho L'amour De Loin. Opera In Five Parts. L, armour De Loin was premiered in Salzburg in August 2000 with additional productions being staged at the theatreBern in Switzerland. The...

Commissioned by the BBC for the 1969 Henry Wood Promenade Concert Season. Premiered by Zara Nelsova and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis.

A dreamlike and evocative work from Peter Maxwell Davies for flute and orchestra. The piece captures the wonder and sanctuary of the composer's home, surrounded by seabirds and seals that fire the ima...

Internationally renowned Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski created this impressive and deceptively folk-like Orchestral work when he was a very young composer and it propelled him into the first rank...

Shiva Dances for two pianos was written for Jill Richards.

Gustav Holst has earned a place among the most revered of late 19th and early 20th century composers and is best known for his enduring Orchestral suite The Planets. But before that great work, in his...

Saariaho's L'armour De Loin is an opera in five acts and was premiered in Salzburg in August 2000, with additional productions being staged at the theatre Bern in Switzerland. The story is based on th...

Five Piano Pieces for Right Hand by Brian Elias, written between 1969 and 1972 by this modern British composer.