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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...

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...

Die im Titel genannten Namen beziehen sich auf Allegra Mostyn-Owen und Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen ist die einzige Tochter der italienischen Dichterin Gaia Servadio und des Historikers Mostyn-O...

The long-term friendship between Anne-Sophie Mutter and Krzysztof Penderecki has not only produced the second violin concerto ('Metamorphoses') and the second sonata for violin, but also the new Duo c...

Das Spielen im Duo macht sowohl professionellen Musikern als auch Laien viel Freude und gibt kreative Impulse für das Musizieren. Die Klangverbindung unterschiedlicher Streichinstrumente übt durch die...

An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and de...

This work of ca. 12 minutes' duration was composed at the suggestion of the cellist Sol Gabetta in remembrance of the great mystic St. Teresa of Avila. Premiered in 2014, it will surely find its way i...

Dans le pays natal du compositeur chinois, la fleur du pêcher est un symbole de recommencement et d'immortalité. Dans cette (oEuvre, des fleurs tourbillonnantes sont dotées d'un symbolisme visuel impr...

When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion...

Arnold Schönberg is the central figure in the musical world of this century. His musical significance was already apparent during his life-time, but his posthumous influence has increased immensely. H...

Intezar, which means waiting in the Urdu language (spoken in India and Pakistan), is a quiet, one-movement work based on a series of blues-like incantations.

Apart from the collection of 'Classical Manuscripts' composed by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and passed off by him as transcriptions of movements by old masters, the violonist published original works...

Originally composed for piano solo, Rubinstein's 'Melody' Op. 3/1 is the best-known work written by the Russian composer. Thanks to the simple, yet tender melody and its expressive harmony, the name o...