Concert and Contest Woodwind Music

Any serious player should not be without this compilation of challenging French contest compositions for saxophone. Selections include Eugene Bozza: Aria, Improvisation and Caprice;

This exciting piece in the classical style will evoke the sound of the greats in your clarinet quartet. This composition was created with the help of a contribution from the Music Investment Fund, an

This exciting piece in the classical style will evoke the sound of the greats in your clarinet quartet.

Hall of Ghosts was composed in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown period; it was inspired by piccoloist Gudrun Hinze's video for Harberg's Prayer Project filmed in the hauntingly empty Gewandhaus

Nineteenth-Century Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) spent the years 1892-1895 as the director of the National Conservatory in New York City. It was during these years that Dvorak composed his

The Boosey and Hawkes Bartok edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians standards to learn and enjoy. Duos &

Faure's most celebrated orchestral work, the Pavane is well-known for its haunting flute solo - as beautiful as it is challenging at times in the authentic key of F-sharp minor. Within one

Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 (originally for violin) is the famous theme and variations on which countless composers have written their own “Paganini Variations.” When Jasmine Choi recorded

This exciting piece in the classical style will evoke the sound of the greats in your saxophone quartet. 

Inspired by Chinese tradition, this concerto-like dance suite includes 1. Lion Dance 2. Yangon and 3. Muqam. Each movement draws from melodies and rhythms characteristic of

The classic depiction of Death and the dancing dead is arranged by Thorne for a clarinet choir of nine instruments. Death's violin solo is here, along with the immediately-identifiable themes of this spooky

Blades of Grass was inspired by the poem Grass by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967):

"Pile the bodies high at Austerliz and Waterloo, Shovel them under and let me work-I am the grass; I cover all.

The Pastorale (No. 1), believed to be an original work, was rescored by the composer in a variety of instrumentations. The original version for flute, cello, and piano is the most harmonically complex and

The three movements in this piece are unified by similar compositional elements and motifs but contrast in style and character. The first movement (Scherzo) jokes and jabs with jagged lines and

Wood Song for solo oboe (2019) was inspired by the Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) poem of the same name.  It tells of the wood thrush bird as well as the poet's honesty of kissing life "scars and

This collection, compiled by Sonora Slocum, principal flutist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, features some of the most popular flute repertoire by French composers. This is an excellent addition to

Four Settings in a Primeval Forest, Written for Saxophone Quartet, Four Settings was composed in the summer of 2017. The music in each of the movements is loosely derived from the titles which