Classical Sheet Music

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke obviously is the last work outlined by Viktor Ullmann in the concentration camp ofTheresienstadt. Other than with the two symphonies developing...

Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder consist of a five songs for female voice and piano. The songs are settings of five of Mathilde Wesendock's poems.

Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder consist of a five songs for female voice and piano. The songs are settings of five of Mathilde Wesendock's poems.

Ullmann finished his one act opera ‘Der zerbrochene Krug’ after a play of the same title by Heinrich von Kleist shortly before his internment in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin), whe...

Those familiar with Ligeti’s vocal compositions will be surprised by this seemingly simple and plain musical miniature after a poem by Hölderlin. Even though composed during the same period as the “No...

Commenting on this cycle of 35 songs, the composer writes: "The contradictions in human nature delighted him; he loved the unevenness of life and all its manifestations. While nineteenth Century music...

A comprehensive selection of seasonal art music for voice and piano ranging from art songs to arias from oratorios. Works by Bach, Handel, Loewe, Schubert, Berlioz, Banck, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schum...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...

Hummel wrote this song cycle in the last months of his life and called it his 'swan-song'. In the light of this, his selection of poems is highly unusual: the composer did not focus on qualities such...

This ten-minute aria fragment comes from Rodion Shchedrin's oratorio 'The Enchanted Wanderer'.The piece is divided into two sections: It begins with an arioso vocal part above the pianistically demand...