Wolfgang Birtel

No, it is not only Bach/Gounod when hearing the Ave Maria: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), too, set this text to music several times - for example, for organ (without pedal) and two identical voices....

A large number of works by the Italian musician Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808) from Forlì were printed all his life. The busy cello virtuoso naturally wrote works for 'his' instrument mainly, inc...

L'aria di Johann Sebastian Bach può rivaleggiare con la sua composizione Jesus bleibet meine Freude per popolarità: Il coro finale della cantata BWV 147 "Cuore e bocca, opere e vita" è davvero orecchi...

The musician Alexander Glasunov (1865 1936) from Petersburg owes his musical career to fellow composer Milij Balakirev who put him in contact with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1880 for private studies....

Le Trois Gymnopédies sono i pezzi più famosi di Satie: Alludono alle danze dei giovani dell'antica Sparta in onore dei caduti della battaglia di Thyrea. Wolfgang Birtel ha ora arrangiato la Gymnopédie...

La collana Violinissimo cerca di rendere accessibile il ricco repertorio di cinque secoli di musica per violino per le lezioni, i concerti e la musica privata. L'antologia Serenade contiene una selezi...

Best of Violin Classics" contiene brani popolari di quattro secoli per violino e pianoforte. Le opere originali, di livello da facile a intermedio, sono il repertorio ideale per le lezioni di musica e...

To mark its 250th anniversary, the Schott publishing house has dug up and reedited treasures from its historical publishing archives. This anthology is aimed at professional musicians and advanced ama...

The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: the final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is very catchy due...

Nella migliore delle ipotesi, l'"Aria" di Johann Sebastian Bach può rivaleggiare con la popolarità del suo movimento "Jesus bleibet meine Freude": Il coro finale della cantata BWV 147 "Herz und Mund u...

Finally, you can vent your bad mood musically: The Duetto buffo di due gatti (Comic Duet for Two Cats) by Gioachino Rossini provides excellent opportunity to do just that by means of music and mime. I...

Allenfalls die 'Air' von Johann Sebastian Bach kann es an Popularität mit seinem Satz 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' aufnehmen: Der Schlusschor aus der Kantate BWV 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'...

It is therefore quite wrong to place just mechanical or mediocre players at the viola', warned Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart in 1784/85 in his 'Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst'. Some disreg...

La raccolta "Best of Viola Classics - 16 Famous Concert Pieces" per viola e pianoforte presentata da Schott contiene una selezione di opere che possono accompagnare ogni allievo in molti anni delle su...

Cirris Sonaten opus 11 für Violoncello und Bass waren bislang nur zum Teil in modernen Ausgaben erhältlich: Hier wird nun die komplette Sammlung mit ihren sechs Sonaten vorgelegt. Der Komponist, der M...

The cellist Friedrich August Kummer is one of the best-known virtuosos of the 19th century. Among his numerous compositions, arrangements and concert paraphrases are these catchy transcriptions of Sch...

The genre of the violoncello concerto was born in 17th-century Italy. Thanks to the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), there exists today not only a wealth of magnificent violin concertos...

La malinconica e popolare "Pavane for a Dead Princess" di Maurice Ravel, composta nel 1899, fu originariamente scritta per pianoforte prima di essere arrangiata per orchestra nel 1910. Pur essendo ded...

Enttäuscht, dass er mit seinen musikalischen Ambitionen in der Metropole London nicht reüssieren konnte, zog sich der englische Komponist Edward Elgar in die Provinz zurück. Im Sommer des Jahres 1888...

In the summer of 1888, Edward Elgar's fiancée (and pupil) Caroline Alice Roberts surprised him with the poem 'Love's Grace' written by herself. During a holiday, the composer re-membered the lines and...

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...