Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop’s musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

In 1998 Barbara Heller created this exceedingly poetic song cycle. Filled with calm serenity 'Come una colomba' is steeped in the beauty of nature, colour and light. The poems by the father of modern...

14 Arien aus op. 2, published by the renowned Furore Verlag, opens up a fascinating sound world full of emotional depth and intense expressive power. The collection brings together serious, touching s...

An enticing rarity in the vocal literature, 1861 is a 5-minute work for unaccompanied voice - a miniature monodrama, sung a cappella. Okoye's music and dramatic pacing are in tune with Whitman's words...

For Soprano, Piano. Composed 1978. Duration 7:00.

Diese Lieder zeigen Viardots außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit, ihre spanischen Wurzeln auf andere kulturelle Kontexte zu übertragen. Sie sind sowohl von großem pädagogischen als auch künstlerischen Interess...

The songs are entirely in the Romantic tradition of the composer's excellent musical training, who composed these songs in the finest onomatopoeic style. The "Vier Lieder mit Kammerorchester" were per...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Hoamat — the Bavarian pronunciation of the word 'Heimat' (Home) — was commissioned by the Municipal Music School in the city of Burghausen for their 'Lokalklang' festival. The ten movements make use o...

For Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Timpani, Violin, Cello, Strings.

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...

Kaija Saariaho's Maan Varjot was jointly commissioned by Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Orchestre National de Lyon, Southbank Centre and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

The Concerto 'In tempus praesens,' commissioned by the Paul Sacher Foundation is Sofia Gubaidulina's second violin concerto after the great Violin Concerto 'Offertorium' of 1980, played by Gidon Kreme...