Boosey & Hawkes

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

In the composer's words: 'The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical.' The original inspiration was in the old pia...

The title Deus ex Machina refers to the Latin phrase, God from the machine. Each of the three movements of the piano concerto is a musical response to the world of trains.Deus ex Machina for piano and...

Written in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Dharma at Big Sur draws influence from Kerouac's novel Big Sur and the electric violin playing of Tracy Silverman, the violinist of t...

This concerto won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1995, the most prestigious music prize in the world. In three movements, it is prime example of Adams as the most compelling contemporar...

Fire and Blood is a concerto for violin and orchestra inspired by Diego Rivera's famous murals entitled Detroit Industry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera's murals, which were commissioned by E...

New edition of the full score of this 8-minute work composed in 1933-36. Stemming from a suggested commission for an oboe concerto this music represented, as Stephen Banfield asserts, 'the first real...

Argentine composer and bandoneon virtuoso, Astor Piazzolla added new dimension to the traditional tango with his use of jazz elements, extended harmonies, and dissonance. His distinctive composition S...

Argentine composer and bandoneon virtuoso, Astor Piazzolla added new dimension to the traditional tango with his use of jazz elements, extended harmonies, and dissonance. His distinctive composition S...

Simply 4 Strings - Música de conjunto para instrumentistas elementales de cuerda de Katherine y Hugh Colledge, compositores de Stepping Stones, Waggon Wheels, Fast Forward y Shooting Stars. Un conjun...

Mezzosopran und Orchester

First publication in full score of the complete incidental music to Shakespeare's play, composed for a 1946 BBC radio production and later expanded into the Four Songs op. 28a and Suite for small orch...

New edition to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Originally intended as the final movement of a projected chamber symphony, Finzi worked on this Elegy for Orchestra from 1929 until 19...