Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Tuned wine glasses are made to vibrate and sing, creating a floating-ethereal bed of sound for this setting of Edgar Allan Poe's poem on transience. Dreamy, a little melancholy and harmonically simple...

'Tonight I Dance Alone' for double choir a cappella consists of three poignant episodes from the life of an old man. We encounter him before his wedding, before celebrating his wedding anniversary and...

Setting for double SATB chorus a cappella of an anonymous medieval text about Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians.

This beautiful short work was commissioned in 2014 to celebrate the 20th wedding anniversary of two of the composer's friends. It was first performed by the chamber choir Tenebrae on their album of mu...

Three Songs of Love was commissioned by the Exultate Singers and first performed at St George's Church, Bristol on 14 February 2015.The three texts (Clare, Yeats and McCrae) represent different moods...

Originally part of David Bednall's Three Songs of Love, the short section which sets W B Yeats' poem The Cloths of Heaven ('Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths') is here presented as a separate octa...

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...

Mysteriös, sinnlich, unergründlich und betörend - das sind Eigenschaften, die gleichermaßen auf die Sonette William Shakespeares wie auch auf deren musikalische Umsetzung durch die 1985 geborene Kompo...

In Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I öffnet Chaya Czernowin ein filigranes Klanglabyrinth aus der Spannung des Ein- und Ausatmens der Singstimme. Séverine Ballon versucht in ihrer Adaption, diesen Gestus un...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

Prokofiev's 'War and Peace' is an epic opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph based on Leo Tolstoy's novel. It, contrasts the 'Peace' of Russian high society with the 'War' of Napoleon's...

Prokofiev's 'War and Peace' is an epic opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph based on Leo Tolstoy's novel. It, contrasts the 'Peace' of Russian high society with the 'War' of Napoleon's...

Basel Variations on "z'Basel an mym Rhy" by John Glenesk Mortimer is a lively and charming work composed in 2007 to celebrate the Atlantic crossing of a solar-powered Swiss boat. It was premiered in N...

Basel Variations on "z'Basel an mym Rhy" by John Glenesk Mortimer is a lively and charming work composed in 2007 to celebrate the Atlantic crossing of a solar-powered Swiss boat. It was premiered in N...

This beautiful folk melody will capture the hearts of students and audiences. Originally scored for large orchestra, this string arrangement captures the essential qualities often heard in the English...

A Pole with Jewish roots, traveller and student, the versatile composer and publicist Szymon Laks developed his artistic maturity in the fertile environment of the French capital between the world war...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...