Boosey & Hawkes

The libretto of this opera was adapted by John Adams and Peter Sellars from a South Indian folktale and poems translated by A.K. Ramanujan. A Flowering Tree premiered in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna...

For Soprano and Orchestra From the composer's notes: Child Alice was conceived as a single continuity ... the various extracts may be performed separately. Options include: Part I of Child Alice may b...

Singstimme (Bariton) und Orchester - Dirigierpartitur

Vocal score of the opera based on Thornton Wilder's famous play.

It is (not only) due to its six movements that the flute concerto by the American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Ned Rorem, who was once chosen by Time Magazine as the 'world's best art song compo...

Gnarly Buttons is a 26-minute concerto for clarinet and small orchestra about the enduring influence made on Adams by his father, a clarinetist. It traces the instrument from the innocent and 'cool' t...

1991 Corrected Edition.

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

In the composer's words: 'The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical.' The original inspiration was in the old pia...

The title Deus ex Machina refers to the Latin phrase, God from the machine. Each of the three movements of the piano concerto is a musical response to the world of trains.Deus ex Machina for piano and...

Written in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Dharma at Big Sur draws influence from Kerouac's novel Big Sur and the electric violin playing of Tracy Silverman, the violinist of t...

This concerto won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1995, the most prestigious music prize in the world. In three movements, it is prime example of Adams as the most compelling contemporar...

Fire and Blood is a concerto for violin and orchestra inspired by Diego Rivera's famous murals entitled Detroit Industry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera's murals, which were commissioned by E...