Schott Musik

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...

Der für seine Soundtracks für Film und Fernsehen bekannte Komponist Enjott Schneider (-1950) führt hier durch drei biblische Geschichten. Die Arche Noah, Die Auferweckung des Lazarus und David und Gol...

In his capacity as Cantor of St. Konrad Church Freiburg in Breisgau, Bertold Hummel composed in 1957 his Missa brevis (without Credo), op. 18b for precentor, unison choir, congregation and organ in or...

In die Welt eines frühen Musikerlebens und Musikschaffens führt uns der vorliegende Editionsband der Kritischen Ausgabe der Werke von Richard Strauss. Herausgegeben sind dabei die Kammermusik-Komposit...

Composed for the 90th birthday of György Kurtág, the only five-minute trio is characterized by a condensed, contemporary spirit of playing. The change between piccolo and alto flute, magical sound sur...

Flöte, Violine, Violoncello und Cembalo

In this work, the instruments weave an innocent texture of sound, as if they were women knitting together in silence, with the magical atmosphere created from their handiwork. The sounds, like plants,...

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

Jost's piano quartet is an homage to the outstanding Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and his adaptations of three Shakespeare tragedies ('Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Macbeth'). Although 'Spinnwebwald...

'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost...

Jost has set to music 'Melancholy' and 'Afternoon', two tender poems by Kiki Dimoula, the most important contemporary Greek lyricist. Combining the human voice with the sound of a string quartet, he t...

A trio combining gentle, hypnotic music with more troubled outbursts, this atmospheric work evokes moods associated with night and sleep. The highly complementary combination of clarinet, violin and p...

Setting Dylan Thomas's evocative yet humble poem 'In my craft or sullen art', Watkins conjures up a beautifully introspective introduction with the use of a simple quintuplet motif which is later tran...

Postlude' was one of 10 birthday candles written for Mobius' 10th anniversary and is scored for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet. At just 3 minutes in length and with a lento tempo marking, 'P...

The idea to write a horn trio came to the composer (also an acclaimed pianist) after giving a concert with a horn player from the Nash Ensemble, which included the Ligeti and the Brahms horn trios. Wh...

Commissioned for the renowned Florestan Trio in 2009 and performed them in the UK, France and Germany, Huw Watkins' Piano Trio is a formidable addition to the chamber music repertoire. As an establish...

Die Sonate in G-Dur von Franz Xaver Richter wurde den 'VI Sonate da camera a Cembalo obligato, Flauto traverso o Violino concertato e Violoncello' entnommen. Die Aussetzung des teilweise bezifferten B...