Music Library & Discography
ALGERIA
SALIM DADA (1972)
Miro El Rayo Oriental (mezzo-soprano, piano, string orchestra & percussion) – Score
EGYPT
MOHAMED SAAD BASHA (1972)
Ya Fo’ady (voice and chamber orchestra) - Score
Ana Hawaitoh Wentahait (full orchestra) - Score
El Nahhasseen (percussion ensemble) - Score
Legnawy (Alto, Rababa & orchestra) - Score
Ay’oub (narrator, Rababa, Children’s chorus & choir & orchestra) - Score
Gana El Farh (cello & piano) - Score
Eskinderiyah (String orchestra) - Score
Enawy (violin, viola, cello & piano) - Score
Dandourmah/Gift from Egypt/Bannoutah (saxophone quartet & drums) - Score
Character from the Alley (flute & piano) – Score
Recordings:
Selection of works (1 CD)
Fragmentations (fl, cl, vln, vlc, pno) – Score & Parts
Lypse 1 & 2 (chamber ensemble) - Score
String Quartet No 2 - Score
Groupings (clarinet, cello, percussion & violin) - Score
Symphony No 3 - Score
SynAESTHEsia InSANEtasia (orchestra) - Score
Montsegur (orchestra)- Score
Belly Dance Classic (percussion & cello) – Parts
Two Minute Trio (violin, viola, cello) – Score
It is Dark and Damp on the Front (piano solo)
Announcing a Newborn (solo voice)
Mekta in the art of Kita (piano solo)
Aria for Strings (string orchestra) – Score & Parts
Sweet and Prickly Pear (vln & darabucca) – Parts
Longa Nahawand/Qeblah/Delta/Alchemy (violin/viola) - Parts
Excerpts from “...fii waan...” - Score
Al Kimiya - alchimie – alchemy - Score
Taqaseem (chamber orchestra) – Score
Recordings:
Egypt Mother of the World
BASSAM HALAKA (1977)
Dancing on Dead Bodies (Piano Trio) - Score
Fanfare for the Opera - Score
Sinfonietta - Score
String Quartet in F minor - Parts
Variations on an Egyptian Folk Theme (String Orchestra) - Score
Piano Quartet – Parts
Recordings:
Chamber Music from the von Grunigen Concerts in Cairo
Sonata for violin & piano – Parts
Would the River Last (Soprano, flute, cello, & piano) – Parts
Recordings:
Selected works for chamber ensembles (1 CD)
El-áin (orchestra) - Score
Soars (multi media) - Score
Three (clarinet, cello & piano) – Parts
AMR OKBA (1972)
Wassertropfen (solo piano)
Message (piano, 2 violins, trumpet and cello) - Score
Instability (piano, flute, cello, clarinet and violin) - Score
Solo for Harp – Part
Pluto (full orchestra) – Score
A Journey to the Afterlife (2020) (soprano & Large Orchestra) - Score
The Book of Going Forth By Day - Opera without Scene – Score
Integration (fl, vln, vlc, pno) – Parts
A Short Piece for Solo Violin – Part
Insistence for Solo Violin – Part
String Quartet (2010) - Score & Parts
String Quartet No 3 (2020) – Score
Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano (2021) - Score
Fear (2020) – Mixed Ensemble - Score
Corona (2020) – Mixed Ensemble – Score
Utopia for solo clarinet – Part
Recordings:
The Book of Going Forth By Day - (Excerpts – 3 CDs)
Selected works (2 CDs)
ALI OSMAN (1958-2017)
Mawal-masry (clarinet & piano) - Score
An hour in Boswil (fl, picc, ob, pno, perc. & strings) - Score
Rhapsody for solo violin, flute , oboe & strings- Score
From the South (flute & piano) - Score
Almokhmas almasry (harpsichord) - Score
Adagio (oboe & piano) - Score
Sufi’s Hymns (Alto, viola, clarinet & piano) - Score
Elegy for female voice, strings, oboe, piano & percussion – Score
Fusion String Quartet – Score
Piano Trio – Score & Parts
Lotus Pond (fl or ob or vln, pno) – Score & Parts
Little Suite for string orchestra – Score & Parts
Duo for violin and cello – Score & Parts
Taquasiem for clarinet & strings - Score
Miniatures for Large Orchestra - Score
One in Bits and Pieces (fl, cl, vln, vlc, pno) – Score & Parts
Trio No 2 (piano trio) - Score
Gregorianische Gesänge (chamber ensemble) - Score
Kyrie Eleison (Capella Choir) – Score
Clear Vision (2 flutes) - Score
Beats and Moods (orchestra) - Score
Bird of Paradise (chamber ensemble) - Score
Over There (horn, piano & chamber orchestra) - Score
Concertino & Sonatina (cello & small ensemble) - Score
Verses from as Strangled Poem (string orchestra) – Score
Rotated Cycles (small ensemble) – Score
Transformations, String Quartet no 3 – Score & Parts
Searching for the Real Light (quarter tone piano) – Score
Between Sword and Love (str. Quartet) – Score & Parts
Rondo (cello & piano) – Parts
Meditations (violin & piano) – Parts
Arabesques (piano solo)
IRAQ
Oak/Warm Voice/Chant - Score & Parts
The Second Baghdad - Score & Parts
Memories (3 cellos) - Parts
Pain - Score & Parts
Elegy String Quartet - Parts
Dialog (for ney and flute, strings and raq) - Score & Parts
Recordings:
Dialog for ney, flute and strings
Concertos from the East
IRAN
Shiraz (piano trio) – Score
Recordings:
Aminollah Hossein Piano Pieces
Golriz Hashemi (piano)
String Quartet ‘Dreamland’ – Score & Parts
AMIR MAHYAR TAFRESHIPOUR (1974)
Broken Times -String Quartet (2012) – Score
Recordings:
Persian Echoes
Concerto for Harp and Orchestra + three works for chamber ensembles (Naxos World Premiere Recordings label)
Compilation recordings:
In Absentia – Music by Iranian composers Fozie Majd and Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour
JORDAN
FOUAD FAKHOURI (1972)
Pour Un Roi (strings & 2 horns) - Score & Parts
Cello Concerto - Score
Gargoyle for Orchestra – Score
Metamorphosen (clarinet & piano) – Score & Parts
For Strings - Score
On D (oboe & orchestra) - Score
Erforscht (flute, clarinet, cello & piano) – Score
LEBANON
Sonata Brève (violin & piano) - Parts
Sonata Brève Bis (cello & piano) - Parts
Sept Sequences (chamber orchestra) - Score
Due Vocalizzi (soprano & piano) - Score
Naz Bar (versions for solo piano & oboe and piano) – Scores
Symphony No 4 - Score
Symphony No 5 - Score
Symphony No 6 – Score
Recordings:
Symphony No.4
Symphony No.5
Symphony No.6 “The Dawn”
Something always remains (bass flute, 2 violins & bass drum) - Score
In te anime meus temporara metior (soprano, horn, electric guitar, bass drum & electronics) - Score
And I have tried to keep them from falling (string trio) - Score
Ce qui dort dans l’ombre sacrée (double-bass & live electronics) – Score
Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Strings and Percussion – Score & Parts
Recordings:
Sweet Geriatrics (2012) – piano solo
Moments in Crakow (orchestra) - Score
Aspiration (string orchestra) - Score
Pleusis No 1 (orchestra) - Score
Ode to Peace (voice & orchestra) - Score
Li Anni Ahiya (voice & orchestra) - Score
Araftu Beirut (voice & orchestra) - Score
Baina Nahrain (orchestra) – Score
BECHARA EL-KHOURY (1957)
Recordings on Naxos:
Orchestral Works
Three Concertos
Orages
New York, Tears and Hope
Piano Concerto + Meditation Poetique
Requiem for Orchestra; Lebanon in Flames; The Contemplation of Christ
Recordings from 2007 – 2014 (Op. 74, 77, 78, 80, 81, 85, 87, 90)
Orchestral works and concertos (Editions Durand)
String Quartet No 3 – Score & Parts
Gardens of Love (Clarinet & String Quartet) – Score & Parts
Recordings:
Mirror of Eternity
Flute Concerto (Wissam Boustany and National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine)
Après Un Reve - Wissam Boustany (flute) and Aleksander Szram (piano)
This Invisible World (Nimbus Alliance label)
3 Pieces for String Quartet - Score
Elegy (piano trio) - Score
Symphony No 1 - Score
Piano Concerto - Score (2)
Piece for 4 Guitars - Score
Violin Concerto - Score + Solo violin part
Oud Concerto (Oud and Full Orchestra) - Score
Sonata for violin and piano – Parts
Recordings:
Symphonic Music (1 CD)
Violin Concerto (1 CD)
Suite Aqsaq Sima (orchestra) - Score
Symphony – Score
Recordings:
Symphonie des Cedres, Volume 1
Musique de Chambre, Volume 2
Suites Libanaises, Volume 3
Chants du Terroir Libanais
Chantons Noel, Volumes 1 & 2 (2 CDs)
BUSHRA EL TURK (1982)
Eating aloud (string quartet) - Score
La Fantôme de Rebecca Griffiths (wind, brass & percussion) - Score
Ta’attalat Loughatul Kalami (cello & piano) - Score
Marionette (flute & piano) – Parts
Compilation recordings:
Lebanese Piano Music, Volumes 1 & 2 (2 CDs)
Tatiana Primak-Khoury (piano)
Grand Piano label, distributed by Naxos
Masarat
Fadia Tomb El-Hage (contralto)
Sings Lebanese Authors and Composers
With FRAGMENTS ensemble and The Beirut Oriental ensemble (2 CDs)
MOROCCO
Identité - Score
La Source Captive/Asselman/Tamda (amplified bass flute) - Score
Le Temps Rebelle (amplified bass flute & piano) - Score
Les Eaux Meurent en Dormant (amplified flute & piano) - Score
Never More String Quartet - Score
Arcane String Quartet - Score
La mémoire de l’eau (piano) - Part
Marthyah (solo violin) - Part
Itto (bass clarinet) – Score
Ichou (cello solo) – Part
L’eclosion du corps (clarinet & Marimba) - Score
Touda (clarinet & cello) - Score
Tia Aït Mas (flute, cello, d-bass, violin & clarinet) - Score
Les Coeurs Fébriles (harp, flute, marimba, viola, cello & d-bass) - Score
Rondo for String Orchestra – Score & Parts
Adagio for String Orchestra – Score & Parts
PALESTINE
Break Down the Walls – Score
Les Cinq Sens (vln, pno & perc.) – Score & Parts
Recordings:
Break Down the Walls
Les Cinq Sens
Various other works (3 CDs)
YOUSEF KHASHO (1927 – 1997)
Recordings:
Melodies from Jordan (Discs 1 & 2)
The Great Arab Revolution (CD1 & CD2)
Jerusalem Symphony
Opera Kanaan - Score
Terre de l’etrangère (baritone & ensemble) - Score & Parts
Two Songs (Mahmoud Darwsish) – Score
Complete musical compositions – Scores
SAMIR ODEH-TAMIMI (1970)
Recordings:
Selected works with Zafraan Ensemble
Selected works for chamber ensembles (1 CD)
Compilation recording:
Fadi Deeb – piano
Piano Music of Palestinian Composers (2017)
SYRIA
Recordings:
White (with Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra)
Memories from Syria; Oriental Dances
Mawlawya (orchestra) - Score
Transformation (chamber ensemble) - Score
String Quartet - Score
Fractal (solo violin & orchestra) - Score
Oud Concerto – Score (2)
Cello Concerto - Score
String Trios (2 violins & cello) - Score & Parts
Recordings:
Cello Concerto
Trio Bayat (cl, vln, vlc) – Score
Violin Concerto No 2 – Score
Glyptos 1 (Flute & Perc. Ensemble) - Score
Glyptos 2 (Tape, Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Piano, Percussion, Violin & D-Bass) - Score
2 Pieces for String Orchestra – Score & Parts
Trio (cl, vln, pno) – Score
Songs without Words (solo cello, string orchestra, percussion) – Score
2 Songs for soprano and strings – Score
Les Temps des Pierres (baritone voice & full orchestra) – Score
Quintet (Cor Anglais & String Quartet) – Score
String Quartet – Score & Parts
Recordings:
Selected works (2 CDs)
Hot Tea. Mint & Olives (treble voices & pno) – Score (2)
Son of Man (SATB, chorus, trumpet, hp, perc, organ) – Score
Dabke (String Orchestra) – Score & Parts
Oh people, leave me to my sorrows for piano solo Letters Home (Clarinet & Viola) – Score & parts
Recordings:
Hot Tea, Mint & Olives, performed by Boston Children’s Chorus 2010
DIA SUCCARI (1938)
Recordings:
Dia Succari – Composer from my Aleppo
Works for violin and piano performed by Ashraf Kateb (violin)
Abu Dhabi Festival 2010
Selected works (2 CDs)
String Quartet - Parts
Folk Dance - Score
Samaii Chromatic (clarinet, horn, lute, piano & cello) - Score
Mowachach Without Words (orchestral) - Score
3 Pieces for clarinet & cello - Score
For Horn (horn & piano) - Score
Dance (orchestra) - Score
Two Pieces for Violin Solo - Parts
Arab Concert Overture – Score
Biography, letters etc. (draft research articles for proposed book)
Recordings:
Chamber Music (2 CDs)
Compilation recording:
Syrian National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Missak Baghboudarian
Shafi Baddredin – Concerto for Nai & Orchestra
M. Abdul Karim (1911 – 1989) – Tango for Bouzoq & Orchestra
Zaid Jabri – Two Songs
Solhi Al-Wadi – Meditation for cello solo
Mayas Alyamani – Tribute to Solhi for violin solo
TURKEY
Idyll (solo cello & full orchestra) – Score
Recordings:
Chamber Music from Turkey
Volume 2
Yucelen String Quartet
In trace of memories lost in the infinity of time (large chamber ensemble) - Score & Parts
ULVI CEMAL ERKIN (1906-1972)
Recordings:
Chamber Music from Turkey
Volume 3
String Quartet
Ankara String Quartet
The Mechanism (fl, cl, bsn, perc, pno, vln, vlc) – Score & Parts
Combined Piano Pieces (solo piano)
Cycle in Me (cl, vlc, pno) – Score & Parts
NEVITT KODALLI (1924)
Recordings:
Chamber Music from Turkey
Volume 3
String Quartet No.2
Ankara String Quartet
4 pieces for 5 clarinets – Parts
Wanderings (2 ob, 2 cl, alto sax) – Parts
Land of Beautiful Horses (string Quartet) – Parts
Three Turkish Folk Songs (cello & piano) – Score & Parts
String Quartet Op 32 (2012) – Score & Parts
Taksim for Solo Clarinet
Horon! for Solo Violin
Flight Box – Parts
Turquoise - Parts
Wind Quintet – Score
Nocturnal (fl, vln, vlc, pno) – Score & Parts
Music for String Orchestra – Score
Silver Clouds (full orchestra) – Score
LNYBV (full orchestra) – Score
Secret Garden (oboe & piano) – Score
Mom: A Spider came out of my Ear (vln, vlc, pno, fl, cl, perc.) – Parts
Bitter Delight (9 players) – Score
Affordable Escape (vln, alto sax, pno) – Score & Parts
Shades of Mediterranean (8 players) – Score
AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991)
Five Turkish Folk Songs (piano solo)
Concerto da Camera (string orchestra) – Score & Parts
Recordings:
Complete String Quartets (2 CDs)
Quatuor Danel - CPO (classic production osnabruck)
A European Encounter
Works for violin & piano
City in the Cave (full orchestra) – Score
Alone (full orchestra) – Score
Aspendos (full orchestra) – Score
Sleeping Fishes (7 cellos or string orch.) – Score
Heptagon (7 cellos or string orch.) – Score
Monolog (fl, cl, vln, vlc, pno, perc) – Score & Parts
On the Backstreets of the old Istanbul ( vln, vlc, cl, hp, perc, kanun) – Score & Parts
Mystic Fragments (mezzo soprano, viola, clarinet, percussion) – Score
Folk Song (cello & piano) – Parts
No Times (piano trio) – Parts
Fugitis (string quartet) – Score & Parts
String Quartet (1990) – Score & Parts
ILHAN USMANBAŞ (1921 - 2025)
Music for Winds and strings (large chamber ensemble) – Parts
Recordings:
Chamber Music from Turkey Volume 3
String Quartet - Ankara String Quartet
MISCELLANEOUS
Compilation Recordings:
Al Farabi Concerto 2008
Composers Short Extracts (demo CD):
Ahmed Essayed (Morocco)
Patrik Bishay (Egypt)
Samir Odeh-Tamimi (Palestine)
Saed Haddad (Jordan)
Mounir Anastas (Palestine)
Dia Succari (Syria)
Karim Haddad (Lebanon)
Amr Okba (Algeria/Egypt)
Ramz Sabry Sammy (Egypt)
SAMI AL-SHAWWA
(Syrian violinist, 1885 - 1965)
Prince of the Violin
Selected Works (4 CDs)
Early Singers from Bilad al-Sham (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine)
Singers from the Levant, late 19th and early 20th centuries (4 CDs)