Partitions pour instruments

'Red Blues' is a must-have set of four pieces for piano by Carl Vine. Strongly melodic, and embracing the harmonic and rhythmic world of jazz, this collection is the perfect answer for pianists lookin...

Ever since its premiere just over a century ago, The Mikado has consistently held the stages as one of the world's best-loved comic operas. The story tells how Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado, overcomes...

Monody was composed between October 1971 and February 1972. It is the first piece in which the technique of ring-modulation plays a structural, as opposed to colouristic and decorative, role. This is...

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...

. . . succinct, effective character sketches whose coruscating arpeggios and great, crashing chordsdemand phenomenal technique and reward it with phenomenal music. Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post...

Germany - a land of rivers and mountains, folklore and fantasy. A land where magnificent castles stand guard over the Rhine, where the creatures of fairytales might still lurk in caverns and forests -...

"....I had the sound of Schubert sonatas in mind while I was writing the piece; ......I was aiming at the clarity and relative spareness of Schubert's textures. There is a lot of two part wri...

The two pieces last 4 minutes.

The first performance of 'Traced Overhead' was given by Imogen Cooper at the Pittville Pump Room, as part of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music on 20 July 1996.

Peter Sculthorpe brings you 'Three Pieces for Piano', which consists of, Djilie, Calllaboma and Simori. This is prepared for the solo piano.

This piece is an explosion of John Dowland's lute song 'In Darkness Let Mee Dwell' (1610). The first performance of 'Darkness Visible' was given by the composer at the Recital Hall, Franz Liszt's hous...

'A Little Book of Hours' draws together six pieces for the elementary pianist. Beautifully evocative and with powerful simplicity, the pieces reflect on a day in the life of Aboriginal people, journey...

"…a big 20-minute work, impeccably presented, crying out for a northern hemisphere protagonist – it is certainly an important piece." John York, Piano, May/June 1999

French Romantic Repertoire' introduces the pianist to a fascinating world of charm and sophistication; a music distinguished by its balance of logic and clarity with emotion. Here the piano works of t...

'Prayer Bell Sketch' was commissioned by Ms. Masako Okamura and Mr. Motoyuki Nakagawa in memory of Toru Takemitsu. Here is the 'prayer Bell Sketch' for the solo piano.