Piano Excerpts

Saxhorn (Euphonium), Tuba and Piano or Wind Band.

In 1729, Bach took over the direction of the "Collegium musicum" in Leipzig, which had once been founded by Telemann, and subsequently gave concerts with this ensemble at least once a week in Zimmerma...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

I. Frogs want a king. They misunderstand Jupiter's warning against this stupid wish, whereupon he sends them a crane to eat them. II. In the past, the crows could sing beautifully. But when they try t...

Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Orchester

The concerto by the Roman composer, who was presumably a pupil of Corelli's, is a great enrichment to the repertoire and was hitherto mistakenly catalogued as a violin concerto.

The piece is characterized by the use of French folk-song melodies which are integrated into their own thematic material. In the first movement, Prologue, the solo instrument stands out while declaimi...

This Henle Urtext edition in unrivalled in layout and precision. The professional journal 'Rohrblatt' wrote shortly after its publication (in 2004): 'An editorial stroke of genius … Every oboist who a...

Piano reduction with solo part

'My oboe concerto was created in 2009 and consists of the three parts Elegy, Duets and Finale con Epilogue which are played without a break. In the solo part, I wanted to express all tonal and technic...

A charming English neoclassical work in three movements. Concertante for Oboe and String Quartet (1947) is available in two editions: C683 This Piano Reduction (includes the Oboe part) C684 Full Scor...

The Serenata in tre parti Parnasso in festa was first performed on the occasion of the wedding between Princess Anne and Prince William IV of Orange in March 1734. The music is largely based on the En...

Pygmalion is the earliest one-act ballet, introduced by an overture, that was created for the Académie royale de musique. With this piece, Rameau turned to the form of the "petit opéra". From its firs...

In a mixture of cantata and concert piece, Beethoven sets a hymn to art in the Choral Fantasy. The approximately twenty-minute work is often seen as a precursor to the "Ode to Joy" of the 9th Symphony...

With the Schicksalslied, Brahms created a timeless piece of music in a very personal reinterpretation of the idea of fate, which knows how to impress in the concert hall as well as in the church. This...

Gabriel Fauré’s "Pavane" is one of his most popular compositions. What is less known, however, is that the premiere of this stylized dance in April 1888 was actually performed in this present version...

The soft light of the early morning, the song of the cicadas and the beguiling scent of thyme: "Matinée de Provence" describes a morning in Provence, from the first rays of sunshine to the oppressive...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

Goethe's dramatic ballad "The First Walpurgis Night" inspired Mendelssohn to create a magnificent and vivid depiction of the conflict between an old pagan community and the new aspirations of Christia...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

The "Gesang aus Fingal" op. 17b for mixed choir and orchestra is an arrangement of the fourth movement from the Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor, Hörnern und Harfe op. 17, which Brahms composed at the inst...

Henry Purcell wrote several works in honour of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of church music. The best known of these works probably is Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692) the solo part of which was performed b...

The three movements of this concerto, written 1990-91 in Erevan (Armenia) during a dramatic and difficult period (catastrophic earthquake and turbulent political situation) bring out not only the emot...

Exact instrumentation: 2.2.2.2. - 2.2.0.0. - timpani, grand cassa - strings The present work published here for the first time bears the title: 'Concertino für die Tenor Bass Posaune mit Begleitung de...

When Jean-Pierre Mathez asked me to write this concerto for trombone, I was perplexed: what kind of music should I write for such an unusual solo instrument? Then I remembered J.C. Higginbotham* and h...