Advanced Sheet Music from M.P. Belaieff

What does the Lotus Effect have to do with modal structures and prosodic forms of ancient Armenian sacred music? Tigran Mansurian attempts to fathom these mysteries - the magical plant with its unique...

'The Musical Offering' (2007) was composed for David Sabee (cello) and Ivan Sokolov (piano) who premiered the work in 2010. In this five-movement sonata, solo passages alternate with the cello and pia...

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

The Four Psalms (2024) – commissioned by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco – are dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Hanover. This cycle expresses Silvestrov's very personal, spir...

This book contains Silvestrov's hitherto only works for solo violoncello created after 2000. The cello is one of the central instruments in the composer's oeuvre. In several works, he has managed to p...

In the 1980s Raskatov had experimented with a developing aural sign system – call it the „linguistics“ of music – such as the polystylistic manner of Schnittke, and various minimalist techniques. At t...

In the 1980s Raskatov had experimented with a developing aural sign system - call it the "linguistics" of music - such as the polystylistic manner of Schnittke, and various minimalist techniques. At t...

Duo (after Ossip Mandelstam) refers to a short poem from his 1910 collection Kamen (Stone), which underlies my piece: not only is this poem its epigraph, it is also quoted metrically throughout in the...

Wustin's work ' Prinoshenye' (offering) is dedicated to Gidon Kremer 'in memory of Dmitri Shostakovitch' and was premiered at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 2005. What we know of Shostakovitch - the scherz...