Recordings

Scores

Brass
- Brass ensemble
- Trombone
Orchestra/Concert band
- Concert band
Piano
- Piano solo
- Piano method
Strings
- Cello and piano
- String ensemble
Vocal and choral
- General
- Sacred
Woodwind
- Bassoon

Featured content

A courteous conductor
The notoriously absent-minded composer Anton Bruckner was once invited by Hans Richter to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the …
Teaching in Kabul
Emma Ayres, a violist and former ABC Classic FM radio presenter, discusses her experience in teaching in Kabul at the …
Bargaining with the artist
“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.” – Beethoven Cited at QuotationsBook.
Working hard for music
“Now we know that you are gifted, very gifted, but you must work very hard, because someone who is gifted …
An artist’s personal growth
Funnily, my deep conviction is that no idea or concept of true artistic importance can be imparted or transferred. The …
Meditation I
Title: Meditation I Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Piano Product medium: PDF score SAMPLE:
Go for long walks
Rachmaninoff once urged Horowitz to go for long walks. “If you don’t walk, your fingers will not run.” Abram Chasins, …
Sondheim on audiences
“I do think audiences become more sophisticated. You try something out on them and they say, “Ugh”. You try it …
Write over improvise
If Heaven has bestowed on you a fine imagination, you will often be seated at your piano in solitary hours, …
A performance can be greater than them
I remember a few years ago being at a summer academy in the south of France, with Dominique Merlet. The …
The making of heroes and cowards
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.” – Brooke Westcott, …
A Swan (Ein Schwan) (Grieg)
Title: A Swan (Ein Schwan), op. 25, no.2 Composer: Edvard Grieg Arranger: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Cello and piano Product medium: …
Feeling a bond with your instrument
“Research in Finland has uncovered the benefits of feeling a bond with your instrument. 51 per cent of musicians surveyed …
I am not highbrow
After writing his opera Porgy and Bess, producers in Hollywood started to think that Gerswhin was turning “highbrow”. George and …
A conductor’s hair style
In Halina Rodzinski’s book Our Two Lives she describes how on the very first day Artur Rodzinski came to assist …

By Greg