Partitions difficile chez Theodore Presser Company

In Court Dances, Amanda Harberg's musical palette sparkles with her trademark sense of imaginative energy, warmth, and lyricism. The three-movement work is a joyful and soulful celebration, commission...

Commissioned by the celebrated trombonist Natalie Mannix, Two Latin Dances is a beautifully evocative and sizzling work based on Bossa Nova and Tango rhythms. While at first sounding as two distinct m...

Enthält zwei Spielpartituren. Mimi Stillman gab für das 10-jährige Jubiläum des Dolce Suono Ensembles acht Kompositionen in Auftrag, die auf Themen von Johann Sebastian Bach basieren sollten. James Pr...

Zwilich's Concerto Elegia for flute and strings was commissioned by a consortium of 11 orchestras and premiered by flutist Trudy Kane at University of Miami's Frost School of Music. The work's three m...

There is a refreshing spontaneity to Samuel Adler's WIND CONVERSATIONS for woodwind quintet. The slow introduction explores the timbres of the ensemble in glowing and harmonious polyphony, while the m...

This fiendishly virtuosic concert piece was written for trombonist Brian Diehl in 1994. A dermish is a Croatian folk dance (authentically spelled 'drmes') containing dance steps that, at times, go 'ag...

With the medieval charm that has inspired several suites by Gary Schocker, Over the Moat is a picturesque divertimento ideal for recitals and duet playing. The movements hint at a royal wedding.

Composed for the Dutch piccolo virtuoso Peter Verhoyen, Sonata for Short Attention Spans is a rarity in the repertoire - a concert trio for Piccolo, C Flute, and Piano. The short attention spans in th...

Composed for violinist Baird Dodge; James Matheson's Spin is a three-movement study in various meanings of the word spin. I. Gyre has the character of a whimsically spinning object in a sort of arena....

In Greek mythology, Daedelus was an inventor who created wings from feathers and wax, so he and his son Icarus could escape Crete by flying away. While Daedalus flew wisely, Icarus flew too close to t...

Introspective for most of its five minutes, Inside Out is a study in beauty drawn from lyrical simplicity. Primarily a slow cantilena with a trace of Latin feel, Inside Out erupts into an exciting dan...

Composed for Jasmine Choi's premiere on the 2018 National Flute Association concerto gala, Dorff's Concertino is a 10-minute showpiece full of flash and theatricality, elegantly balanced with beauty a...

The composer describes the work, 'The opening movement has open strings, kind of melancholy piece which feels improvised, hence title. The middle goes hoedown for awhile, and when the opening returns...

Sean Osborn is both a virtuoso clarinetist, and an elegantly fun composer of neo-populist concert and recital music. In creating a sonata for his own performance on Eb Clarinet, Osborn's charm, dynami...

Commissioned by the International Beethoven Project for 'Beethoven Festival 2011: Man and Muse' as part of the Bagatelle Project (Ode to Joy theme) curated by IBP's New Music director Mischa Zupko. Co...

In the spirit of the great 19th-century opera fantasies for woodwinds, Michael Webster has created a concert trio on the many great arias from Puccini's Madama Butterfly. However, as its name implies,...

Darkly lyrical and mysteriously sensual, Harberg's Poem and Transformations is a two-movement recital work of beauty and exuberance. Commissioned by Susan Glaser who recorded the work for Koch Interna...