Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

When I was a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), I took third study organ with George McPhee, the organist of Paisley Abbey. One of the...

Written on Kihnu Island, where I am from, this piece is dedicated to Ensemble Floridante. Altum – Latin for "depth, vastness, height, the profound" – holds multiple meanings, each unfolding in its own...

In the 1910s, a romantic infatuation for the harpist Eleonora Damskaja moved the young Sergei Prokofiev to compose three short pieces for harp and dedicate them to her. Two of these compositions later...

With his opera Hamlet, which premiered in Glyndebourne in 2017, the composer Brett Dean added a new, modern analysis to the certainly numerous artistic ones of the famous subject - with enormous succe...

String Quartet No. 2 – Lion’s Teeth by Sebastian Hilli unfolds an expressive world of sound that thrives on contrasts. Inspired by the origin of the word dandelion – dent de lion, the "lion’s tooth" –...

Cyclical patterns of sound move in and out of focus, as if approaching from a distance before receding into haze. The tone of the violin is periodically transformed from white noise via drifting pitch...

This setting of the familiar opening lines of Henry Vaughan’s 'The World' was Lucy Walker's first commission as Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, and was premiered by the ensemble in June...

Commissioned by St Martin’s Voices to mark Remembrance Day in 2024, There will come soft rains showcases the range of the choir’s musical colour-palette through the repetition of the opening motif in...

Love Flows was commissioned by the Choir of Wells Cathedral and Alexander Hamilton to mark the occasion of the installation of the Reverend Canon Toby Wright as Dean of Wells in June 2024. The etherea...

Based on Thomas Mallon’s best-selling novel, Fellow Travelers takes place in 1950s Washington, D.C., and follows Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusa...

A collection of early and long out-of-print songs, issued in collaboration with the Bliss Trust to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Preface by Giles Easterbrook, an unswerving advoca...

This delightful and engaging piece, for 4 players on 2 pianos, is frequently on the NFMC list and is a familiar favorite for many piano studios. Includes a duplicate insert for the 2nd piano.

A collection of early pieces, issued in collaboration with the Bliss Trust to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Preface by Giles Easterbrook, an unswerving advocate of Bliss's music,...

This piece, presumably composed around 1890, belongs to a whole series of Debussy’s early works that are indeed still far removed from the seminal piano compositions of his mature period, but, for all...

In 1995, Jean Françaix composed a paraphrase based on themes from Richard Strauss’s opera "Capriccio," which is published here for the first time. In Françaix's typical style, the motifs are woven tog...

Ravel gave the oboe a soloist role in his orchestral version of 'Le Tombeau de Couperin'. This sound is characteristic of the work, even though the original version was only written for piano solo. Th...

In these two volumes, American organist Gregory Hand presents the complete works for solo organ by the Oppenheim-based composer Johanna Senfter. Volume I focuses on the independent works and fugues, w...

Written for the BBC Singers in 2019, Stars above, earth below is a hopeful and reflective setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). The piece begins with celestial, descending lines acr...

Wilhelm Killmayer's Sappho-Lieder bring together a previously unpublished, expressive cycle for soprano and piano based on texts by the ancient poet Sappho. The collection, which lasts around 30 minut...

This well-known Ravel classic is a study in orchestration as it gradually builds intensity from the quiet opening to the powerful and explosive finish. Jay does a masterful job of adapting this work f...

Three etudes, three characters: The Three Concert Etudes by A Bu are designed with three contrasting movements: a jazz-oriented impromptu, an intermezzo and a ballad. The movements can be played as a...

These six dances form the final culmination of Bartók's 'Mikrokosmos' (HN1408-1410), that work of the century comprising over 150 pieces. He dedicated this grouping, collected under its own title, to...

Two movements, two worlds of expression: Confessions by A Bu is inspired by chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms and Kapustin. The first movement is a lament, the second a fantasia on the spiritual "Nob...