SKU: A0.1236835

Full score and vocal score of the revision (2023) of an exercise in Baroque style: a cantata for mixed choir, 4 vocal soloists, 2  oboes, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and organ, based upon Martin Luther's famous chorale and composed in 2011 for the music associations ('Musikräte’) of Saxony�Anhalt, Saxony, and Thuringia, and for the project office of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) 'Luther 2017 – 500 Years of Reformation’.
Mostly festive and grandiose, inspired by Handel's great choruses from his oratorios, and fit for Christian celebrations, especially for the Lutheran church.
Set in four movements, with Luther's lyrics (in German). Total duration: 26 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 audio clip is the first movement.

SKU: A0.1357534

A piece in C minor for fortepiano, entirely based on five sketches by Beethoven: Biam. 349b (1802-1803), Biam. 280 (c. 1800), Biam. 349a (1802-1803), Biam. 467 (1808), and Biam. 472 (1808). Its interest lies in the combination and adjustment of the respective fragments, to result in a fluent piece in late Classical style. The sketches were expanded to exploit a bit their passing ideas (the double bars in the score indicate the end of the original material). 

A mysterious introduction in C minor (Largo, Biam. 349b) is continued by modulations reminding of the Introduzione to the Finale of Beethoven’s Op. 53 and linking it to the vivacious central section, with triplets (first, Allegro assai, in B major as a possible reading of Biam. 280, which was originally written down without a key signature). This is continued by a section in A major (Biam. 349a) and then in D minor, in triple time (Biam. 467). After a sudden stop, the mysterious introduction in C minor returns abbreviated, ending discretely in C major. 

Composed for the contest at the Centro Ricerche Musicali (C.R.M.) LVBEETHOVEN Italy.
Duration 2 min. 20 sec. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The mp3 sample is a recording made on a Graf fortepiano sampled by Modartt's Pianoteq.

SKU: A0.1004678

An original, concert Fantasia in C minor for organ (2006) in Neo-Baroque style and mostly a serious, almost tragic mood, with virtuoso passages and non-imitative polyphony, partly based on folk tunes from northern Romania. More suited for the advanced student. Duration: 7 min.

SKU: A0.1415801

Score and parts of a premiere realization of some of Beethoven's sketches for the first movement of another Symphony in C major before the First, dubbed 'No. 0' or Unv. 2 by some: 1. 'Overture' (Andante con moto - Allegro con brio), 2. Tempo di menuetto. Useful for people interested in Beethoven's sketches and for students of the Classical style.
In 1794-1796, Beethoven made extensive concept sketches mostly for the first movement of this abortive symphony. The material is abundant and sometimes contradictory, as usual with his preliminary work, and he recycled later from this one only the main theme of the Finale of the completed Symphony No. 1.

For this speculative realization, suggested by Mr. Armando Orlandi at the Centro Ricerche Musicali and dedicated to them, only the more promising sketches were utilized, and the slow introduction was assembled from the ones in cut time, while those in triple time make up now a Minuet. Virtually every bar of music here includes the sketches, also in the elaboration and coda of the 'overture', only with a few transpositions needed for assembling the sonata form and for the repeats in the Minuet.

Obviously, Beethoven would have done it much differently, had he decided to continue working on this symphony, and the question remains regarding the utility of recycling material abandoned by some classical composer. However, this gives one an approximate idea of one of the many possibilities implied by the preliminary sketches for his Symphony 'No. 0'.
Total duration 15 minutes. The mp3 audio clip is the first movement. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

SKU: A0.1004701

Evocative piece for piano with complex, colorful chords in Impressionistic and Modernist style. Appropriate for piano students. Duration: 4 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.

SKU: A0.1004710

Arrangement for cello and piano of Lumina zeloasă (Zealous Light), op. 63 no. 3 (2017), a neoromantic art song for tenor and piano on a poem by Romanian contemporary poet Ioan Moldovan. Appropriate for students, to get them accustomed with modern music. Duration: 4 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN.