Bertold Hummel: spartiti difficile

This work in three movements was written in 1991 at the suggestion of the Canadian saxophonist Normand DesChênes.The character of the opening movement is determined by the sonata form with two themes....

The rushing of the Holy Spirit to which the hymn 'Veni creator' refers is symbolized by fast semiquaver runs of the organ which return again and again during the whole piece. Alternately, the text is...

Dieses Auftragswerk des Siemens-Kultur-Programms war Pflichtstück bei der 47. Internationalen Orgelwoche Nürnberg - Musica sacra 1998.

With the Eight Fragments Bertold Hummel has successfully created a most impressive work. Uncommonly concentrated in the evoking of atmosphere and reflecting the texts strongly, these dark grey songs -...

Suite Op.64 is an exciting work for Solo Horn in F, composed by Bertold Hummel. This work will provide an enjoyable challenge for the advancing horn player. This suite is divided into four movements:...

Hummel scrisse tre versioni delle fantasie, ciascuna della durata di poco meno di quattro minuti: l'originale per corno di bassetto e le versioni per clarinetto basso solo e fagotto solo. La versione...

Unaccompanied Saxophone Virtuoso 3-movement work. Recorded by Norman Des Chenes (Conventus Musicus CM 105).A melody with wide-ranging curves opens, in very slow tempo, the first piece.A motoric Presto...

In the Meditation a passacaglia is built on the base of twelve different clusters in the piano; the series begins in the third bar after a short introduction, is completely repeated three times, and c...

An amazing 4-movement composition for solo flute (piccolo, C flute, alto flute) and flute sounds. The performance CD contains manipulated flute sounds and a complete listening version. Winner of the n...

Anche se Bertold Hummel ha composto questo Scherzo per fagotto e orchestra da camera più di cinquant'anni fa, il brano affascina oggi ogni ascoltatore con la sua freschezza giovanile e spensierata. Vi...

Best playability and musical spirit - this is what characterizes the music of Bertold Hummel who died in 2002, and why his music must be part of the repertoire of any amateur and semi-professional orc...

Best playability and musical spirit - this is what characterizes the music of Bertold Hummel who died in 2002, and why his music must be part of the repertoire of any amateur and semi-professional orc...

The overall form of this work in one movement is in seven sections. A slow introduction begins with multiphonics of the saxophone and sounds of cymbals played with a double-bass bow. Vibraphone and ma...

In summer 2001, Bertold Hummel composed the present work as a commission for the Asiago Festival and brought together in the grand dimensions of his 'Fantasy in one movement' - as he himself termed it...

Bertold Hummel's Symphonic Overture was initially part of the Orgeon Symphony. It was then revised as a work in its own right and given the title Symphonic Overture. This work, which lasts about eight...

Bertold Hummel's Symphonic Overture was initially part of the Orgeon Symphony. It was then revised as a work in its own right and given the title Symphonic Overture. This work, which lasts about eight...

Hummel wrote this song cycle in the last months of his life and called it his 'swan-song'. In the light of this, his selection of poems is highly unusual: the composer did not focus on qualities such...