The composer made this arrangement of the Third String Quartet for string orchestra in March 2003. The first performance was given by the Eos Orchestra New York conducted by Ken Selden in the Concert Hall Ethical CulturalSociety New York City on 24 April 2003.Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work Out of the Ruins for Agnieszka Piotrowska’s BBC2 documentary which …

This is the full score of Aheym for String Quartet, composed by Bryce Dessner, best known as the guitarist of The National, but also an acclaimed composer in his own right.Composed in 2009 for the Kronos Quartet for their performance in Brooklyn's Prospect Park for the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival, Aheym (meaning 'homeward' in Yiddish) was directly inspired by his grandmother's migration to Americ…

Were You There? was expertly composed by James Whitbourn for SATB Chorus and Organ. The piece was written for Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge.British composer and conductor James Whitbourn had an international reputation as a composer from the start of his career as a Programme maker at the BBC- during his time there he produced many award-wining programmes and develope…

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate its 40th birthday. The first performance took place in June 1986 at St. Magnus' Cathedral Kirkwall as part of the tenth St. Magnus Festival.Writtenfor and first performed by Isaac Stern Davies's Violin Concerto brings together two streams in his music: symphonism and folk-fiddling. In its strongly developed substance i…

The variants of this piece chart the experience of the composer's musical journey from childhood as well as citing influences from other composers including Brahms the piece also draws connections between the composer andhis previous influences.This composition has 10 variations on the opening theme the introduction of the piece sees a 3 part unit with quiet brass notes holding together flowing…

These variations are based on the concept of Beethoven's 32 variations in C Minor. In Beethoven's work all the variations are eight bars long without any changes in tempi or time signature. Each variation is complete in itself but the variations are carefully grouped and juxtaposed to have a cummalitive effect. His individual variations are always very clearly connected with the original theme …

Par FRANCES-HOAD CHERYL. The Sky Stretched Thin, a four-minute piece for baroque or modern violin, takes inspiration from a poem by Simon Armitage written during lockdown with the same title. The week that I read this newly published poem, I also swam in the (very cold!) saltwater of the River Crouch in Essex for the first time in the year. The view from the middle of the river of land, water and …

Pour violoncelle solo.Citant Saariaho: Le titre évoque les deux gestes qui sont à l'origine de l'oeuvre: d'une part le modèle que j'appelle 'toupies' tournant sur place un ou subissent des changements, et d'autre part, des moments hors du temps, centrée sur la couleur et la texture du son.La pièce entière se déroule soit autour ou entre ces deux gestes. J'ai choisi de régler à nouveau l'instrument…

Judith Weir's Good Morning Midnight was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and was first performed on 6th June 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. The work is arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensemble and lasts around 20 minutes. This is the vocal score with a Piano reduction. Good Morning Midnight takes its name from a poem by Emily Dickinson whose poetry bookends this work asetting of fiv…

Une collection des meilleures oeuvres classiques tirées des collections d'anthologies. Comme à chaque fois, chaque morceau est présenté avec soin pour piano solo, avec au choix des chefs d'oeuvres reconnus, dont ceux de Bach et son Air pour instrument à cordes en sol, l'Entertainer de Joplin et le Clair de Lune de Debussy à apprendre, &agrav…

Une série de courtes pièces dédiées au célèbre violoncelliste Anssi Karttunen, a présenté lors d'un concert à l'occasion de son cinquantième anniversaire à Helsinki en 2010. Le concert a été fondée autour des Variations Mystery, une série de 'cadeaux' de musique composées par une variété de grands compositeurs d'aujourd'hui, pour être joués par Anssi lui-même, et tous basés sur Ciaconna Colombi. /…

Full Score-Symphony No. 2 began its life as Pozcatek a 'Michael Nyman Band' 'soundtrack' that was written for the Michael Nyman Band to accompany a selection of sequences from post-war Polish films thatNyman selected and edited in 2009. That work has already been networked a Pozcatek for piano trio (recorded by the Fidelio Trio for MN Records) and a song cycle 'Ex Votos Songs' with texts transcri…