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In 1942, Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), the great Polish pianist and composer (and in 1919 prime minister of Poland for one year), was posthumously honoured with a deluxe edition for which many of...

Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) was a major star on Polish State Radio in the 1930s. In September 1939, during a live broadcast, he was perfoming Chopin's Nocture in C Sharp Minow when the sudio was bo...

Created in 2004 for the radio production Orlando furioso of the WDR, 'Orlando-Lieder' tries to give new and colourful form to the old narrative style of an invented time of troubadours. Tenderness is...

Like the seemingly irregular movements of a tautening and slackening elastic rope, the impulses between live piano and piano soundtrack are given a push and passed on. Annoying tonal interferences des...

Chapela's first composition for the piano has very personal features: a lament for a great personal loss, again and again shaken by sudden outbreaks. The piece of almost three minutes' duration is ded...

Miniaturen für Klavier ist eine Sammlung von kleinen Klavierstücken von jeweils 1 bis 3 Minuten Länge und unterschiedlicher Schwierigkeit. Sie können als Gesamtzyklus, als Einzelstücke oder als Auswah...

Leon Gurvitch (*1979) schreibt und spielt Musik, die in der Klassik wurzelt und Einflüsse von russischer Folklore, orientalischer und lateinamerikanischer Musik bis zu Jazz und Klezmer aufnimmt. Das A...

In this piece, commissioned by the WDR and premiered by the Quatuor Diotima in Witten in 2016, Johannes Boris Borowski shows that, to him, the string quartet genre is a rewarding field of experimentat...

Originally, Svoboda 'only' wanted to create a reduction for trio of his Music for Trombone and Orchestra (2010). When working on it, however, he discovered so many interesting possibilities in the com...

Viele Werke des Komponisten und Posaunisten Mike Svoboda haben außermusikalische Bezüge, entstanden für konkrete Anlässe. Aber wenn er sich eigene Wünsche erfüllen darf, dann schreibt er auch gern 'pu...

The title refers to a Moroccan desert wind, but it was less a figurative association than merely the sound of the word that fascinated Johannes Boris Borowski. The lengthy one-movement work reveals th...

Written in 1998 for the 8 Horn Players of the Berlin Philharmonic, the introspective horn chorales in the 1st and 4th movements of Mahler's Third Symphony, then just programmed, served Dean as a start...