Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

Vocal drama for soprano solo, mixed choir, orchestra, synthesizer and tape Exact instrumentation: 3(picc).3(eh).2.3(cbs)-4.4.3.1-timpani, percussion, harp and strings

Kaija Saariaho’s Song for Betty is an arrangement of the last movement from her opera L’amour de loin and was an 80th birthday gift for Betty Freeman, who very generously supported the commission of t...

The soft light of the early morning, the song of the cicadas and the beguiling scent of thyme: "Matinée de Provence" describes a morning in Provence, from the first rays of sunshine to the oppressive...

The soft light of the early morning, the song of the cicadas and the beguiling scent of thyme: "Matinée de Provence" describes a morning in Provence, from the first rays of sunshine to the oppressive...

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

The magnificent Largo was written for the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich who gave the world premiere alongside Seiji Ozawa and the Vienna Philharmonic. This intimate work has been highly accl...

The work is a dialogue in multiple levels: The solo cellist performs with the orchestral cello section, and soloist and cello section both enter into dialogue with the whole orchestra. The concerto re...

Up until now the trumpet has not played a hugely significant role in Krzysztof Penderecki’s oeuvre. Alongside cadences for Joseph Haydn’s concerto in E flat major, he has assigned substantial solos to...

For me, the viola has always been first and foremost an extraordinary vocal instrument. For me as a musician, playing chamber music with the viola is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Sto...

Pēteris Vasks composed his Oboe Concerto in commemoration of the centenary of Latvian independence, and so the work became a hymn to his native country, its nature and its people, while simultaneously...

Two of the European Cultural Capitals in 2010 - Istanbul and the Ruhr area - were united in the personality of the composer and pianist Faz?l Say. He lives in Istanbul and had a five-year residence as...

Ulysses at the Edge oft he World war ursprünglich ein Stück in gleichtemperierter 12-Ton-Stimmung. Die hier vorliegende Fassung ist das Ergebnis weiterer Revisionen mit einem neuen Vokalpart, der eine...