G. Schirmer

This 4 movement work was inspired by weather patterns that occured one day while the composer was looking out his window in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A fascinating and deeply personal work from a major contemporary composer. Duration ca. 22 minutes.

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

This 35-minute work is in five movements which bears a resemblance to the arch-form principales of Bartok's fourth quartet. The quartet is based upon a motto composed of even repetitions of a single t...

Score and full set of parts for Villa-Lobos' String Quartet No. 4

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.