Carl Fischer

The new Masterworks Series by Carl Fischer Music will showcase arrangements of 20th Century American composers. Symphony No. 2 by Howard Hanson is one of the most popular American Symphonies ever writ...

Composed by Matt Turner, Moonlight Odyssey for string orchestra is a hard-driving piece which takes the listener on an adventure full of rhythmic twists and turns as well as Middle Eastern-flavored me...

Peter Terry's Unleashed makes for an impressive concert opener that is the musical equivalent of unleashing a caged animal. The piece is exciting from start to finish, with energetic and bold material...

Composed by Bruce W. Tippette, Drifting utilizes musical passages to allude to the image of something drifting down a river in the woods. It journeys through twists and turns, placid streams and roari...

Canarios is a movement taken from the Suite Espanola for guitar by Gaspar Sanz, a leading composer of Spanish Baroque music. Deborah Baker Monday presents this delightful arrangement in D major which...

Composer Yukiko Nishimura presents Songbird, written for string orchestra in her signature fresh compositional style. After a short introduction, the main theme is a Siciliano-like melody, a dance in...

Abendstern, composed by Lauren Bernofsky, evokes an image of a sunset over the tree-covered hills of the Bavarian countryside with the Abendstern, or evening star, shining brightly over the scene. A h...

Though perfect for Halloween, Arachnid's Lair can be performed any time of year. The dark, subtle introduction with molto crescendos and decrescendos hint to a sinister plan by an arachnid on its prey...

These timeless melodies from Alexander Borodin have been lifted from the original score, arranged for strings, and transposed into the friendlier key of G Major. This piece poses a challenge suitable...

To the Ocean expresses a sea-faring voyage filled with excitement and hope. The ocean changes its look in different situations, which is shown in the varied harmonic progressions. Like the ocean, the...

Titan X is a formidable piece of programmatic music which stirs visions of grandeur and power as the relentless pulse of this contemporary work powers ahead. The triumphant theme in the first section...

Lauren Bernofsky's 7th Street Beat is fun and unique, with beatbox percussion in the parts of all the instruments which imitates the percussive effects normally made by a drum set. The beatbox vocal l...

Arrowhead is an adventurous challenge for advancing string players, featuring approachable chromatic notes (mostly extended B-flats, D-sharps and G-sharps), enharmonic spellings, and 16th note pattern...

Arrowhead is an adventurous challenge for advancing string players, featuring approachable chromatic notes (mostly extended B-flats, D-sharps and G-sharps), enharmonic spellings, and 16th note pattern...

This high-energy work is based on the Greek mythological fire-breathing monster that has a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. Three themes representing each of these interact with one a...

This high-energy work is based on the Greek mythological fire-breathing monster that has a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. Three themes representing each of these interact with one a...