Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Commissioned by the Buck Hill-Skytop Music Festival, 2010, and first performed on August 6th 2010 at the Skytop Lodge, Skytop, PA, by Dan Snyder (tenor) and Annabelle Taubl (harp). This work was writ...

Canta, Canta! is a slow and expressive piece for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by Thea Musgrave. This short song is taken from Cantata for a Summer's Day, written in 1954 while the composer was a student...

For Chamber Orchestra (Flute, Oboe, Cor Anglais, Basson, Horn in F, Trumpet in C, Strings: [5. 4. 3. 2. 1]) Composer's Programme Note: Points of View is a work about the different musical elements, wh...

Cantilena was commissioned by the London Chamber Music Society to celebrate their move to King's Place in October 2008. First performed by Nicholas Daniel and members of the Chilingirian Quartet at K...

Cantilena was commissioned by the London Chamber Music Society to celebrate their move to King's Place in October 2008. First performed by Nicholas Daniel and members of the Chilingirian Quartet at K...

Flute/Viola/Harp Sunrise was commissioned by Backshore Artists Project Inc. on the occasion of Carol Wincenc(AEs 40th anniversary on the concert stage and underwritten by a generous grant from Linda a...

A work for Soprano, Woodwind, 2 Horns and Strings. Duration: circa 15 minutes Programme Note: ''This work was commissioned as a possible companion piece to Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and the decisio...

Kaija Saariaho is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers, having won a number of international compositions, and has become best known for her works which exploit electronics. The inspi...

This 1992 work by the Finnish spectral composer Kaija Saariaho is an intense and complex piece for solo Cello and electronics. The music is derived from preliminary recordings made by the composer wit...

The score for the original version of Miranda's Lament. Composed in 1997, the piece is part of 'The Tempest Songbook' and was dedicated as a birthday present for Paavo Heininen. The set of parts for t...

The set of parts for the original version of Miranda's Lament. Composed in 1997, the piece is part of 'The Tempest Songbook' and was dedicated as a birthday present for Paavo Heininen. The score for t...

Score and parts for Saariaho's Cendres, arranged for Alto Flute, Cello and Piano. Quoting Saariaho: While writing Cendres, I was mainly concentrating on the interpretation of particular musical ideas...

This score edition of Saariaho's , New Gates is arranged for flute, viola (cello), and harp. It was commissioned by the Sabbath Trio and composed in 1996. Duration: 12 minutes.

Six Japanese Gardens is another wonderful example of contemporary programmatic composition by Kaija Saariaho for percussion and electronics. It was composed in the summer of 1993, when Saariaho took i...

Saariaho 'Mirrors' arranged for flute and cello.

Score edition of Die Aussicht. Arranged for Soprano, Flute, Cello and Piano.

Caliban's Dream was written as a 50th birthday tribute to Brian Ferneyhough in 1993. Arranged for baritone voice, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp and double bass. This edition includes the parts only...

Caliban's Dream was written as a 50th birthday tribute to Brian Ferneyhough in 1993. Arranged for baritone voice, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp and double bass. Score edition only. Separate parts a...

Hypnotic Ciel Étoilé it means 'starry sky' in French uses the bass as a dark night of sound dotted with pointillist percussive sounds from the cymbals and crotales. The work is written in thirty-six b...

This is the first section of the five-part Tempest Songbook. Ariel's Lament is a luminous and beguiling rendering of the air sprite Ariel's greeting to his master Prospero, with deft instrumentation i...

This version is arranged for bass voice, alto flute, harpsichord and cello. Score edition only. Separate parts are also available on sale.

Work for Soprano and Violin. The piece has been written for Edna Michell's Compassion project. In the composition I follow the idea of a dialogue, suggested by the text I have chosen. The intimate nat...

This setting of a text from Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest is written for Baritone soloist with a small chamber ensemble. Characterised by Saariaho's unusual and progressive instrumental writing, th...