Schott Musik

The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

The American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) is rather unknown in Germany although he had his artistic roots there for he was trained as a pianist in Paris, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and...

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with piano-accompanied chamber music for strings all her life. Max Reger valued her 'extraordinary compositional...

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

Christian Jost spent the summer of 1987 in an Indian reservation in Arizona. Impressed by the foreign culture and deeply moved by the visit of a Native American burial site, he composed - apart from o...

The piano quartet 'Lost traces' is based on the piano trio Distant traces in which the violoncello had been replaced by a viola, a fact that is highly unusual for the genre. Whereas the first version...

Schumann's early piano quartet composed in 1829 has not yet found its way into the concert repertoire, although it would be well-earned. This is due to the fact that the work has only been available i...

Weber's Quartet is a successful symbiosis of concert and chamber music elements which was to contribute significantly to the genre's change of function. It is especially due to the virtuoso elaboratio...

Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier. Das Werk soll Christian Josts Bewunderung für den Regisseur Stanley Kubrick ausdrücken. Ein kurzes Eröffnungsmodell führt in eine rhythmische Figur, die sich m...

This first edition presents our latest selection of pieces from the composition 'Le Portrait de Daisy Hamilton', Koechlin's homage to the famous film actress Lilian Harvey.From a total of 89 short uni...

These two chamber music works are one of the main focuses in the oeuvre of Ulvi Cemal Erkin. Lively and spirited, they combine Western European tradition with rhythmic and melodic elements from Turkis...

We all grew up on the monumental piano quintets of the past - such thrilling music. But as I began to write a piano quintet myself, 'the way in' eluded me. I kept thinking, a piano and a string quarte...

My Piano Quintet consists of four contrasting movements. The first movement, entitled Mannheim Rocket, is a modern take on the 18th-century musical technique in which a rising figure speeds up and gro...

Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass und Klavier

Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) is one of the most widely known young composers in China. From 1978-1983 he studied at the Central Conservatory of Music of China. As early as 1982 he won 1st prize in the Alexan...

Questo lavoro della durata di circa 12 minuti è stato composto su suggerimento del violoncellista Sol Gabetta in ricordo della grande mistica Santa Teresa d'Avila. Eseguita in prima assoluta nel 2014,...

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...