Theodore Presser Company

The depth and charming inventiveness of Harberg's Suite can only be described as remarkable. Each movement has a degree of archaic inspiration (seen in the movement titles), newly stirred up into dram...

The vernacular charm and wit of Don Gillis's music provides a giddy, cartoon-like set of moods for an instrumental setting of the tortoise, the hare, and their fabled escapades. SUITE NO. 1 is a perfe...

Perfect for pops concerts, SUITE NO. 3 provides a quaint time capsule of jazz-inspired classical music from 1939, soon after Gershwin's death, and just before the hard-edged modern jazz of the 1940s....

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...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop's musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop's musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS, per voce recitante femminile e quartetto d'archi, è una narrazione monodrammatica degli eventi del Libro di Ester dal punto di vista di Ester. La narrazione è imperniata sulla...

For Banned Instruments and Piano Opus 36EE

A four movement work requiring a high level of performance ability.

Rhythmic drive and lyric urgency point the music ever forward in Eric Ewazen's GOLDEN GATE QUINTET (formerly Quintet for English Horn and Strings), without any angst for what might come next. The solo...

Rhythmic drive and lyric urgency point the music ever forward in Eric Ewazen's GOLDEN GATE QUINTET (formerly Quintet for English Horn and Strings), without any angst for what might come next. The solo...

Eric Ewazen has explored many combinations of instrumental colors in his piano trios (Horn, Violin, and Piano; Clarinet, Viola, and Piano; Trumpet, Cello, and Piano; and more) to celebrated results. N...

Schubert's time in Hungary brought forth several important works for piano, four hands. Of these, Webster focuses on the Divertissement à l'hongroise, D. 818, a rather lengthy affair that can exceed h...

When commissioned by the celebrated Sparx Duo, Dorff's thoughts immediately went to the French medieval style that had so captured his attention in his college days. The resulting five-movement duo re...

Daniel Dorff has arranged the famed Pachelbel Canon in D as solo with piano accompaniment for all standard instruments; as well as for several ensembles. We now present three new piano trio arrangemen...

Daniel Dorff has arranged the famed Pachelbel Canon in D as solo with piano accompaniment for all standard instruments, as well as for several ensembles. We now present three new piano trio arrangemen...

Throughout its three movements, this 14-minute trio is a multi-colored gem of visceral lyricism, full of dark beauty and mystical impressionism, which gradually grows into fire. The melodic influence...

Commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for its Thirtieth Anniversary for the Clarosa Quartet. 'The first movement begins with detached fragments and soon turns into something cohesive...

In 1962, the 33-year-old Robert Muczynski had already composed his flute sonata and other mature works, and recently had joined the faculty of University of Arizona, where he remained for the rest of...

When Stacy Garrop first heard the Appalachian folk song Silver Dagger at a folk festival, the simplicity of the melody and its cautionary love tale enthralled her, leading to several years researching...

According to Professor Peter Schickele, P. D. Q. Bach's 'SAFE' SEXTET has been so named because its manuscript was the only object left behind when burglars made off with the valuables from a hotel sa...

A stirring, welcome addition to the tuba's limited chamber music repertoire. Tubists will revel in the opportunity to showcase their instrument's lyricism and nimbleness, delivered with Eric Ewazen's...