Faber Music

Britten's 6 minute cadenza was requested by Sviatoslav Richter and written in the summer of 1966 in Aldeburgh before being toured by Richter.

Composed in 1994, Carl Vine’s Five Bagatelles distil his unique voice into a microcosm: motoric jazz influences, sonorous harmonies, and brief, heart-stopping moments of lyricism combine to form a com...

Composed in 2009 for Emmanuel Ax, Thomas Adès’s Mazurkas listen to the Polish folk genre as it was listened to by Chopin, except that its rhythms and the heave of its shifting accents are now caught f...

Vindaloo, as recorded by Fat Les, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Hello Beautiful, written by Walter Doanldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Hello Heaven! Hello Love!, written by Walter Donaldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Hiawatha's Lullaby, written by Walter Doanldson with words by Joe Young, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

I Guess It Wasn't Meant To Be, written by Walter Doanldson with words by Gus Kahn, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

I Think Too Much Of You, written by Walter Doanldson with words by Gus Kahn, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight, written by Walter Doanldson with words by Gus Kahn, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

I'm With You, written by Walter Doanldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Little Hunka Love, written by Walter Doanldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

My Mom, written by Walter Doanldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

When I See Roses, written by Walter Doanldson with words by Gus Kahn, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

You Can't Mean Maybe With Those Eyes, written by Walter Doanldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Without That Gal, written by Walter Doanldson, arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Faber Music is thrilled to publish this previously undiscovered work for piano by Olivier Messiaen, La Fauvette Passerinette. Believed to be the first publication of a piece by Messiaen produced by a...

ff is a dazzling 3-minute work of a piano solo from one of British music’s most innovative voices, where brilliant shards of sound spectra collide with highly accented and rhythmic material in the bas...

First performed by Imogen Cooper at the Cheltenham Festival, Thomas Adès’s Traced Overhead (1995-6) unfolds in three movements of progressively increasing length. The first, ‘Sursum’ (the Latin adverb...

Humphrey Searle composed this restrained and delicate Prelude for Piano on a theme of Alan Rawsthorne in 1965. A student of Anton Webern who, together with Elizabeth Lutyens was one of the pioneers of...

John Woolrich’s Locus Solus is a 12-minute scherzando, mostly fast music placed around a still centre. Its title comes from Raymond Roussel’s 1914 novel of the same name, in which an inventor has invi...

Jonathan Harvey’s Vers was written in 2000 for the 75th birthday of Pierre Boulez. Following the double meaning of the word 'vers', this 4-minute work is a verse which leads 'towards' both a brief quo...

Moderato & Nocturne is bursting with character and charm, these engaging and accessible pieces originate from Britten’s early unpublished Sonata Romantica. Ideal teaching pieces, they offer a wide gam...

Mountains was commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition, 1981, with assistance from the Music board of Australia Council. It was first performed by Gabriella Pusner in Verbugghen Hall...

Nicholas Maw wrote these two cadenzas for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491 for the American pianist Sarah Rothenberg in 1991. They are reproduced here in Maw’s manuscript.