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Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...

Deep Slavic emotion and riveting virtuosity - this is what characterises many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has re...

The compositions published here for the first time are highly interesting, especially because they represent two creative periods: Poème lyrique was written in the 1910s and is a proof of the composer...

The Vienna-born Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) felt at home in the coffee houses of his home town where he not only met the cultural elite of his time but also absorbed the entertainment and folk music of...

Mikis Theodorakis schrieb seine Drei Stücke für Dezember - parallel zu einem weiteren Werk für Klavier und Gesang mit dem Titel Die Kundgebung am 3. Dezember (1944) - am Jahreswechsel 1945/46. Ihr the...

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Jean Marie Leclair l'a?'ne (1697-1764) wurde in Lyon geboren. Er studierte u.a. in Turin bei J. B. Somis, einem Schüler Corellis, lebte ab 1728 dauernd in Paris und war bis 1736 als Geiger der kgl. Ka...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

In 2011, the International Violin Competition 'Henri Marteau' for the first time commissioned a composer to write the compulsory piece for the competition. This composer was Faz?l Say who forms a mean...

In his 'Poèmes', the composer Eduard Pütz (19011-2000) from Cologne bases his compositions on texts by Shakespeare, Petrarca, Mayakovsky, Heine and Verlaine. Great evocative music based on impressive...

Lebanon-born composer Naji Hakim, one of the most important organ composers of today, wrote this piece for solo violin under the spell of a painting. 'Edvard Munch's painting Unge mennesker pa strande...

Lebanon-born composer Naji Hakim, one of the most important organ composers of today, wrote this piece for solo violin under the spell of a painting. 'Edvard Munch's painting Unge mennesker pa strande...

'Zauberei, Magie, Mythen, Legenden, dies sind die großen Themen barocker Opern - Ausdruck der Sehnsucht jener Zeit, sich durch die Illusion der Oper dem Phantastischen hingeben zu können. Diese unverk...

Leclair gehört zu den großen klassischen Meistern der Violine; unter den französischen Komponisten für dieses Instrument steht er an erster Stelle.

Josef Suk (1824-1935) was a bit in the shadow of the two famous Czech composers Antonín Dvorák and Bedrích Smetana. This affected Suk especially because Dvorák was also his father-in-law, a fact that...

Nikolai Andreyevitch Roslawez (1880/81-1944) studied violin in his youth, taught violin later and very often even gave concerts himself. The works he left comprise numerous compositions for his favour...

Nikolai Andreyevitch Roslawez (1880/81-1944) studied violin in his youth, taught violin later and very often even gave concerts himself. The works he left comprise numerous compositions for his favour...

Cyril Scott composed the 'Three Lyrical Pieces' for violin and piano at the beginning of the 20th century and dedicated them to his friend, the violinist Paul Stoeving, professor at the Guildhall Scho...

Iridescent changes of time are the determining element in 'Poème érotique' of Cyril Scott's 'Deux Préludes' composed in 1912. Amid the melodic flow of the violin, the piano undertakes sophisticated sh...