Anspruchsvolle Noten von G. Schirmer

This piece was commissioned by the Stanley String Quartet in 1958 and completed in 1959. It was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1960. Scored for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello.

String Quartet in four movements. The first three are about different kinds of 'weather', their atmosphere and energy. The last movement is the moment after: open sky.

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

Work for Woodwind Quintet commissioned by the Sierra Wind Quintet.

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colourful composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences....

This Elegy, subtitled 'Elegy for my mother' is representative of Ezra Laderman's 'lyrical style within a contemporary context'. He uses tonal material in combination with atonal elements and seeks out...

Inspired by the concept of the serenading lover. In two colorful sections. Advanced Level.

This is one of the best Cello concertos of the twentieth century, and readily communicates the Bohuslav Martinu strong feelings for his homeland. Written over the Christmas and New year period of 1944...

Leon Kirchner's For Cello Solo for unaccompanied Cello, composed in 1986.

Piano reduction of the Cello Concerto, after the concerto for clavicembalo composed in 1746 for Georg Matthias Moon. Includes score and part.

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences. T...

This piece was concieved at La Citadelle la Ferriere in Haiti, a huge, half-ruined fortress high on a remote mountaintop and reachable only on horseback. It was a combination of the strange yet beauti...

The Fanfare Sonata, one of the rather too few works for solo trumpet, takes its name from the fanfare-like gestures which are the basis of much of its melodic and rhythmic material. In the opening Mod...

This Trumpet Concerto was commissioned by the Ford Foundation for Gerard Schwarz. It is a unique work; a delightful palette of succulent and colourful scoring for both soloist and orchestra. The piece...

Inspired by the concept of the serenading lover. In two colorful sections. Advanced Level.

David Diamond was part of the 'new generation' of American composers who emerged in the 1930s. This Sonata has quickly established itself in the American violin sonata repertory and has received sever...

Violin Sonata was commissioned by the Carnegie Hall in New York as part of its centennial celebrations in 1991, and first performed on 3rd February of that year by Michelle Makarski and Brent McMunn....

This version of Nocturne was adapted and condensed from an earlier work for Violin, Soprano, and 4-channel tape.

First peformed by the Philadelphia Orchestra with Elmar Oliveira as soloist.

For Violin and Piano. Although my Violin sonata is an abstract piece, its main dramatic conflict can be described as the struggle between restraint and uncontrolled rage. The piece is based on a singl...

For Violin and Piano. Premiered 27 September 2008 by Sayaka Shoji, Violin and Itamar Golan, Piano.

For Piano and Violin. Composed for Hilary Hahn, Avner Dorman 's inspiration for Memory Games is the classic 1980's memory game 'Simon. ' The original game has four colored buttons, each with a distinc...

For chorus and orchestra. Settings of texts by John Donne and Emily Dickinson.

Written for the Spanish virtuoso Pablo Casals, this Concerto is more a recomposition of an early work by Matthias Georg Monn than a transcription from Keyboard to Cello.

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music! This landmark, five-movement string symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall in that ci...