Intermediate Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shosta...

Benjamin Britten's Suite, Op. 6, for Violin and Piano was composed during 1934-35. The first performance of the complete work was given on 13th March, 1936, as part of a BBC broadcast, by Antonio Bros...

Arranged for 6-string guitar, these ten pieces by the master of tango nuevo are appearing in print for the first time. Intended for intermediate players, these are idiomatic versions of this beautiful...

The great Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera (1916-83) is considered one of foremost talents of the twentieth century. Among his many compositions for piano, Danzas argentinas is probably the most...

A seraph is a celestial being or angel, usually and traditionally associated with trumpets. MacMillan's Seraph is a concertino for trumpet and strings, in three short, contrasting movements, and a wel...

The composer states that'the piece begins with a slowly falling scale of seven notes, thrown from one player to another, repeated nine times and embellished with ornamental flurries which outline a gr...

Scored for clarinet, cello & piano Clarinet Trio (BH 12624) is in three movements, with a total duration of 20 minutes. The first movement, 'Ljud stort, ljud' (Sound big, sound), was commissioned in 2...

Fourteen Little Pictures for piano trio is a set of 14 separate miniatures, stitched together and interwoven to form a single through-composed work, lasting about 25 minutes. The music presents the me...

Album comprising short pieces, each written in honour of a living composer. Three are scored for piano quintet, the other for piano quartet.For Michael (piano quintet) was composed in 2004 to mark Mic...

A transcription by Veronica Leigh Jacobs of Bridge's Cello Sonata (1917), a significant item in the repertoire for that instrument from the pen of a composer whose reputation is these days steadily in...

Lionel Tertis gave the first performance of his transcription of Ireland's Violin Sonata No. 2 in 1918, with the composer at the piano, and it remained a mainstay of his recital programmes for the res...

Dieses Auftragswerk des Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival und des La Jolla Summer Festival in den USA wurde von Anssi Karttunen und Magnus Lindberg im Juli 2006 in Santa Fe uraufgeführt. Santa Fe Projec...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ...' for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival,...

Lindberg's writing in this concerto has been compared to that of the Sibelius violin concerto. According to the Boston Globe, the composer 'shows that it is possible to wed lyricism and virtuosic disp...

One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection.

For the first time, the beautiful songs of British composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) are collected together in one volume, in two keys. This new collection includes some first time transpositions as w...

A collection of American and British songs especially suitable for the progressing singer. Includes a companion CD of piano accompaniments.

One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem, is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection.

For the first time, the lovely songs of British composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) are collected together in one volume, in two keys. This new collection also includes some first time transpositions.

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...

The composer states:'As I began this piece, it was as though I were entering a dream. The music was atmospheric, undefined, and somewhat disorienting. Gradually the material became more focused, but j...

Scored for clarinet, cello & piano Clarinet Trio (BH 12624) is in three movements, with a total duration of 20 minutes. The first movement, 'Ljud stort, ljud' (Sound big, sound), was commissioned in 2...