Advanced Sheet Music from Sikorski Musikverlag

In the field of New Music, Sofia Gubaidulina's 'De profundis' has already achieved the status of a classic. It is not only an attainment of the New Music that instruments are capable of approaching th...

In his 22-minute song cycle Black Sun, Alexander Raskatov sets seven poems by Ossip Mandelstam – haunting miniatures full of existential fear, metaphysical darkness and fleeting hope. Raskatov dedicat...

The Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh composed her piano solo work 'Landscape (Rising)' for the '8th International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition' in Gaillard (France). The world premiere of th...

Nine months after Stalin's death on 10 December 1953, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was premiered as his first symphonic composition since the end of the war. It was later interpreted by Solom...

This 'Trio Ballad' begins with constantly insistent, rapid sextuplets. The clarinet is a kind of an airhead (of all trades) and the viola is a type of demon. The piano provides a foundation for the ot...

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

Shostakovich originally intended his Symphony No.6 to be a monumental homage to Lenin for vocal soloists, choir and large orchestra. Even in the year before its completion, he announced in the press t...

After giving in to massive pressure from state authorities in 1960 and finally becoming a member of the Communist Party, Shostakovich fell into a gloomy depression. His 8th String Quartet, composed in...