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Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

This second volume in the series of his Op. 13 quartets exploits each instrument equally - even the viola is allocated elaborate solo passages - and offers an attractive alternative (as Haydn realised...

The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentaton...

The main movements, introitus and gradual, have distinctive central ideas - the manic string-crossing chaos of the first and the rather more introspective and mellifluous material of the second. Both...

The inspiration for Tread Softly came from two contrasting sources: the religious music of early medieval Spain, and Debbie Locke's work of art 'Retracing Your Steps - Bristol I'. Although over a thou...

Sergueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9-minute accelerando: the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past.

There are still unpublished works by the stylistically versatile composer Erwin Schulhoff. But by and by, the music of this composer ostracized in the Nazi era is being rediscovered, published and mad...

Floral Fairy was commissioned for Counter Phrases by Ictus. Counter Phrases is a film-concert with new compositions by 10 composers including Hosokawa based on filmed dances choreographed by Anne Tere...

Eine sehr einfache, im Hintergrund verborgene Melodie bildet die Basis für mein sechstes Streichquartett. Diese Melodie (ferne Stimmen) wird in einem langsamen Tempo gespielt, die ihr zugrundeliegende...