Advanced Sheet Music from M.P. Belaieff

The title is a quote from the essay 'The Rose of Paracelsus' by Jorge Luis Borges. This parable is about the secret of the creation of a miracle, the disappearance and reappearance of the rose as well...

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 seclusion of the Covid lockdown, Silvestrov, still living in Kiev at that time, composed a large number of smaller works and cycles for various ensembles, which he then combined into larger cyc...

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...