G. Schirmer

First performed by the Julliard String Quartet in 1960. Awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize, the 1960 New York Music Critics Circle Award, and the 1961 International Rostrum of Composers Award (UNESCO).

Work for Tuba Solo and nine French Horns.

Morton Gould was regarded as a composer of both 'serious' and 'popular' music, and he never shied away from mixing the two. Although composing was his main occupation, he was a distinguished conductor...

For Bb trumpet, French horn and trombone.

For Tuba solo and three French Horns. The American composer and conductor Gould (1913-1996) was known the world over for his recordings of many works.

Contents: At Fourteen - Digging - Fanfare - Man of Iron - Scherzo.

For Brass Quintet.

This prolific American composer brings us this exciting new piece for Brass Quintet. From the original film score, The Plow that Broke the Plains.

Brass instruments interweave and surge through wavelike patterns in Copperwave, a piece inspired by the work of Tower's father, a geologist and mining engineer.

For Brass Quintet.

Commissioned for Empire Brass in 1988 and dedicated to his father, Ted. This composition is an interweaving of 3 songs: Slow movement with slowly resolving dissonant harmonies - Folk-like moderate tem...

This composition has become Walter Piston's best-known work from the 1920s. This three-movement piece for woodwinds is scored for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon.

A terrific set of pieces for a Woodwind Quartet by inspirational American composer, Elliot Carter. Completed in 1950, each Etude is different and they move through various moods and this work is an ex...

The Score to Elliot Carter's tremendous 1948 Woodwind Quintet is in part, a light-hearted, almost humorous two movement composition, but one with a significant degree of colour, texture and grandeur....

Work for Woodwind Quintet commissioned by the Sierra Wind Quintet.

Arranged for Woodwind Quintet by John Moss.

Written in 1956, Piston's Wind Quintet is a joyful and animated work in four movements.

For Oboe and Wind Quartet (Flute, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon).

This striking suite of pieces by the contemporary Czech-American composer was inspired by birds, whose wordless poetry is expressed in flight and song. Premiered in 1995 at Carnegie Hall by the Quinte...

Includes a program note by the composer for each movement. Contents: I. Summons * II. Line Dance * III. Couples' Dance. Duration: c. 14 minutes

This piece for unaccompanied viola solo transforms the gentle arches of Bach's theme into slowly soaring arpeggi of almost unending phrase lengths. Originally written for cello, it was premiered by Yo...

This Elegy, subtitled 'Elegy for my mother' is representative of Ezra Laderman's 'lyrical style within a contemporary context'. He uses tonal material in combination with atonal elements and seeks out...

This piece was originally composed in 1989, with a new version created in 2002, commissioned by cellist Kate Dillingham and premiering in April 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.