2005-Søren Nils Eichberg's Symphony No. 1 'Stürzten wir uns ins Feuer' for Orchestra (2005). DK Programnote Eichbergs 1. Symfoni er skrevet i 2005 og blev uropført året efter af Odense Symfoniorkester. Symfonien er i ét sammenhængende forløb og varer en halv time. Den har en undertitel: 'Stürzten wir uns ins Feuer' ('Styrtede vi os i flammerne'). Ordene er taget fra bogen 'Jesusevangeliet' skrev…

Here's the hottest chart of the year for your swinging jazzers to play. It attacks all the way and never lets your audience relax. Based on the familiar changes of Avalon this chart is flat out 'pedal to the metal.' It features a tenor chase with a trumpet option and is loaded with some great ensemble writing behind the soloists. Definitely HOT!

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies’ fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace Oslo Norway as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004 with the intention of producing s…

This Drones Variations Ornaments sheet music is the full score for this innovative and dramatic piece by Nico Muhly. According to Muhly this piece is 'music in constant transformation' featuring steadily evolving melodies from a number of instruments punctuated with hugely original percussive parts with instructions to fill the Cymbal with chain coins and other metal objects in order to mak…

And Do They Do was commissioned by Siobhan Davies and the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. It was composed during the summer of 1986 and first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 25 November in that year. It consistsof four linked 'songs' of which the third is based on Schumann's 'Nachtlied' Opus 96 No. 1.

Telemann, Georg Philipp Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch TVWV 1:634 Cantata for Whit Sunday In 1717 Telemann composed his cantata 'Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch' for the first day of Whitsun based on a text by Erdmann Neumeister. It forms part of the 'Concerten-Jahrgang', also known as 'Das Harmonische Zion' or 'Italienischer Jahrgang' where all the cantatas are conceived as concertos for vocal an…

Beethoven?s sacred works include two settings of the Mass. The ?Mass in C major?, completed and premiered in 1807, has been unjustly described as a preliminary step towards the great ?Missa solemnis?. Yet it is a self-contained and, for its time, decidedly modern piece of church music. Drawing on the rich body of sources, Beethoven specialist Barry Cooper suggests practical solutions to the work?…

New findings in Beethoven?s first piano concerto'
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The Bärenreiter editor and Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar who has received international acclaim for his highly successful editions of Beethoven?s works now turns his focus on the piano concertos.'
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In the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15, Del Mar has found no less than 17 corrections in Beethoven?s autograph which were made…