Samuel Adler

Charmingly cryptic, the title Five Related Miniatures lures us in to decipher how the five movements are related - the musical content is also charmingly cryptic! The 15-minute suite for two violins w...

JUST FOR TWO is among several chamber works composed by Samuel Adler during the early months of quarantine in 2020. The 3½-minute duo was written for and premiered by principal players in the Berlin P...

For E-flat Alto Saxophone and Piano

For Viola and Orchestra

MEDITATION ON THE NAME BACH is an alluring 4-minute work, perfectly described by its title. The piece begins with Bb-A-C-B natural, which is the musical transliteration of B-A-C-H in German-language n...

Study For Bassoon Solo

Commissioned by the Studio for New Music of the University of Siegen, Germany, Samuel Adler's newest addition to the flute repertoire is Recitative and Rondo Capriccioso. This 8-minute work for flute...

For the excellent horn talent Andrew Pelletier; Adler composed Cantilena; a two-movement contemporary affair perfect for the recital program. The first movement begins 'slowly and very expressively;'...

This is one of a group of four studies; each published separately; originally written for one performer who plays flute; oboe; clarinet; and bassoon. Each of them may be played simply as written; by o...

Adler was asked for a trumpet and organ piece to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of Nathan Arnold Schoenberg (great-grandson of Arnold); and Let the Trumpet Sound is the result. After the opening Shofar tru...

This 5-minute plaintive elegy was composed in memory of Milton Babbitt - a touching tribute by one of America's great composers eulogizing another. For advanced players. Dur.: 5'

Commissioned to create folk song arrangements, Adler chose two compelling Southern Appalachian folk songs, brought to our shores by English immigrants and having origins in Elizabethan times. Married...

Dramatic and declamatory, Adler?s Solemn Soliloquy is a lyrical elegy composed for violinist Atis Bankas of the Toronto Symphony. The work was commissioned for a premiere in 2014 at a Holocaust Memori...

This edition is an edited version with some changes in the orchestration: a bass clarinet and a euphonium were added to replace some of the instruments in the original Russian military band such as th...

This edition is an edited version with some changes in the orchestration: a bass clarinet and a euphonium were added to replace some of the instruments in the original Russian military band such as th...

This concerto by the Russian master is one of the most often performed works in the repertoire for trombonists. This edition is an edited version with some changes in the orchestration: a bass clarine...

This concerto by the Russian master is one of the most often performed works in the repertoire for trombonists. This edition is an edited version with some changes in the orchestration: a bass clarine...

Escrito por un compositor de renombre cuyas obras han sido interpretadas por las principales orquestas de todo el mundo, El estudio de la orquestación es el único texto que explora las características...

Accessible to adventurous intermediate players and yet rewarding for advanced pianists too, Samuel Adler's Music for the Young (and the Young at Heart) breathes new life into the familiar, welcoming w...