Boosey & Hawkes

Jack Beeson (1921-2010) war ein amerikanischer Komponist, der vor allem für seine Opern bekannt geworden ist. Diese kurze Fuge wurde vom großen Vorbild, Bachs Kunst der Fuge inspiriert.

Legendary pianist and composer Andrew Hill (1931-2007) defied categorization for over four decades with his enigmatic and sophisticated musical style. He has over forty recordings to his credit and pr...

This piano piece in three movements was inspired by the classic American film noir cinema, in which Venetian blinds were often used to create an interplay of shadows. The composition uses Venetian bli...

New collection featuring works by the most prominent Boosey & Hawkes composers, including Bernstein, Britten, Carter, Copland, Ginastera, Kats-Chernin, Lees, Stravinsky, Thomson, and others. With prev...

Six sonatas by prominent Boosey & Hawkes composers. Accessible to the advanced high school and college level pianist.

Premiered in New York in 2009 with the composer David Del Tredici as soloist, 'Mandango' is a set of five gay-themed pieces for piano lasting 26 minutes: 'Same-Sex Marriage', 'LGBT', 'In Memoriam A.C....

Kammerchor, Klavier und Schlagzeug

This piece was composed in 2010 to honor the Ladies in White, a group of women whose white clothing protests their unjustly incarcerated relatives in Habana.

This piece conveys an urgency for us to awaken and see the wonder, hear the joy that's brought by the rising of the sun. Angular melodies suggest fanfare calls, and asymmetrical rhythms propel the mus...

The eloquent text by Charles Anthony Silvestri serves as the driving force of this work. It addresses the beauty all around us that we often fail to notice-those glimpses of heaven right here on earth...

The first of Two Windsongs, 'Windwolves' is a strongly rhythmic, energetic piece which tries to capture the unrelenting momentum of a wolf pack in hot pursuit. It calls for agile declamation of text a...

Simple, repeated note patterns form the melodic and accompanimental textures of this piece, evoking a sense of humility. Each verse builds toward a cascade of running 8th notes that subsides in quietn...

Composer's note:The use of descansos is a tradition that comes from Spanish culture. Traditionally, descansos were used to mark the place where weary pallbearers would set a coffin down in a funeral p...

Originally composed in Hebrew, this English version uses excerpts from the Psalms to create a lively fanfare-like opening followed by a legato contrapuntal section, ending with a return to the energet...

This joyful Christmas carol from 15th century France may be sung in either the original French or in English. If a children's choir is used, it can sing the soprano part throughout. The words 'nouvele...

Gemischter Chor (SATB divisi), 3 Trompeten, Pauken, Streicher und Orgel.