Piano Excerpts

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...

The ballet "Les Fêtes d'Hébé" deals with those talents that are usually thematized at the Opéra and placed on stage in the service of love: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), the art of...

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...

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...

In the fall of 1833, Friedrich Wieck confidently announced his daughter’s new composition: "She is now writing a major concerto that is attracting the attention of connoisseurs." At this time, Clara S...

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...

Trombone and string orchestra or piano.

On a characteristic tango atmosphere, a melancholic and sensual melody opens the first piece. A simple and vibrant chant comes next, in a frame that's sometimes rarefied, sometimes passionate. The fin...

The idea for the Olmütz Concerto was suggested by my husband, Richard, himself a trombone player and musicologist. When pursuing research in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (formerly Olmütz, Moravia) he came...

Commissioned by the International Geneva Music Competition as the required piece for its 54th competition in 1998, the work consists of three parts that are played without breaks. A motif of fifths an...

Trumpet (Corno da Caccia), Strings and BC or Piano. Johann Melchior Molter (ca. 1695- 1765), born in the Thuringian principality of Eisenach, became in 1717 a musicien in the service of Margrave Karl...

Trumpet (corno da caccia) and orchestra or piano Johannes Matthias Sperger (1750-1812) was born in Feldsberg (today Valtice, Czech Rep.), and received his musical education as a composer and contrabas...

Editor's note: for hornists, works for corno da caccia are extremely difficult because of their especially high tessitura. Even by adopting the compromise of playing the parts with a modern piston val...