Schott Musik

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...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Petr Eben based this organ work on the notes of the bells of Trier cathedral (commissioned by Trier cathedral for the 25th anniversary of the new Klais organ). A recording of the piece is available on...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Barbara Hellers Klangblumen gibt es neben der Ausgabe für Klavier (Schott ED 20374) und Violine und Klavier (Schott VLB 136) nun auch für Violine und Harfe.Jedes der 14 Stücke weist einen besonderen S...

This composition is based on the song 'Lai, Lai, Lai' written by a group of intellectuals who were executed in Teheran in 1973 during the reign of the Shah. A song of the Resistance, it depicts a moth...