Brani pianoforte

As to style, the concerto discovered in Naples in 1986 is close to the well-known concerto in Bb major; it was most likely created at the same -time. The carefully edited publication offers the origin...

David Popper (1843-1913), a pupil of Julius Goltermann, was not only a much-travelled and successful concert cellist. Like many of his virtuoso fellow musicians, he left a number of compositions for h...

A tribute from Tchaikovsky to the great admired example of Mozart and a challenge for the solo cellist. 'Rokoko-Variationen', the theme of which follows the style of 18th-century music makes high dema...

The popularity of his (first) violin concerto drove Max Bruch not just almost to despair - 'I cannot listen to this concerto any more', he wrote to his publisher - it also got in the way of the compos...

The content and formal structure of the two-movement Poem have been subjectively borrowed from the poem Steps [Stufen] by Hermann Hesse. The frequently appearing short motifs in both parts of the work...

Apart from his 'classic', the First Concerto, Camille Saint-Saëns composed other works for the violoncello, such as his 'Suite' Op. 16. Written in 1862, the work lives on the composer's examination of...

When writing his Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33, Camille Saint-Saëns created a 'classic' of violoncello literature. But the French musician even wrote other solo works for this instrument: a second...

The last of three Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra by the famous film composer combines in two movements soloistic virtuosity with the characteristic style of Mediterranean folk tunes - now als...

Kai' was written in memory of Kai Scheffler, principal cellist and a key member of the Ensemble Modern in Germany, who died tragically young in 1989. The 18 minute work is in four continuous movements...

Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimme

In diesem als Alterswerk geschriebenen Cellokonzert greift der Komponist auf ein Hautthema zurück, das er während seines Studiums geschrieben, aber nie veröffentlicht hatte. Er selbst nannte es einen...

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...

Franz Benda appartiene alla cosiddetta "Scuola di Berlino o della Germania del Nord", che raggiunse un'importanza straordinaria nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo, soprattutto nel campo della musica...