Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

One of the most performed works by a living American composer in the classical music repertoire, Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra was written for the New York Philharmonic’s p...

My attraction to the two-piano medium goes back to 1962, when I was a freshman at Lawrence College in Wisconsin. Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod performed his Visions de l’amen there while on an Am...

Having been interested in Mahayana Buddhism for a number of years, I went to a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York to study meditation in 1999. One evening, while walking alone by the side of the l...

Improvisation is at the core of Alvin Singleton's gorgeous string trio Be Natural (1974), its title a pun on the B-natural note that is passed around throughout the piece but is always droning, a groa...

This short, rhythmical work is inspired by an area of McGlade's native Cornwall and uses the text of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. The area, where a common meets the sea, is home to ma...

When I was young, I had the propensity to Daydream- not a particularly unusual circumstance, I suppose, for a boy with a clear temperament fiercely drawn to art, poetry and most especially to music. F...

Endeavor was written for pianist Min Kwon as part of her America The Beautiful project. Scherzo-like, playful, and dramatic, this variation uses the initial falling third in the American the Beautiful...

An exciting extended work by Kyle Pederson, centered around themes of social justice—inviting the choir and audience into a compelling vision of a world rooted in compassion, freedom, inclusivity and...

Die Komposition Er Huang wurde von der Carnegie Hall, New York, in Auftrag gegeben, wo 2009 die Uraufführung mit Pianist Lang Lang und dem Juilliard Orchestra unter der Leitung von Michael Tilson Thom...

First written for string orchestra, Water Reflections by Yukiko Nishimura has now been beautifully scored for full orchestra. In this setting, the gorgeous melodies are expanded with new harmonic dept...

Instrumentation: Violin I, Violin II, Violin III (Viola TC), Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano One of the best new pieces for advancing string orchestras that we have heard in years, this piece is destined to...

From a set of three short pieces, "Most Precious Light" centers on a sense of friendship and hope. The set compromises the "centre piece" of the VOCES8 album Revolutions.

Drwenski muss ein glühender Verehrer Joh. Seb. Bachs gewesen sein, denn Drwenskis Werk ist voll mit kontrapunktischen Finessen und mit Freude am barocken Spiel mit der Form. Dabei bedient er sich aber...