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Between 1995 and 2003 the composer York Höller from Cologne created 14 highly demanding piano pieces which are not only tone pictures, but also compositional reflections on persons personally close to...

For her concerts marking the anniversary of '50 Years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel' the pianist Heidrun Holtmann asked several authors to write compositions. Being under the impr...

Was sein Titel verspricht, hält das metrisch frei notierte, vierminütige Stück mit post-impressionistischer Spieltechnik und Klanglichkeit. Die türkisch-österreichische Pianistin Seda Röder nahm es in...

In una tranquilla e del tutto convenzionale barcarola alla Chopin o alla Tchaikovsky suonano inquietanti campanelli d'allarme, prima di essere definitivamente brutalizzati (rivelando come fonte il tem...

What if the probably most popular symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff were rewritten as a piece for piano and orchestra? This was the idea behind the 'adaptation' of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 into his...

Variations from the Golden Mountain was commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the partial support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffman, a Swiss grant making foundation. It was first perfo...

These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle's larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on...

Composer's note:When pianist Inon Barnatan asked me to write him a new work, he had a particular stipulation: that I somehow connect my piece with Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, which he would program al...

A sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the late Romantic era by composers ranging from Tchaikovsky to Faure and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for the solo Piano. The mu...

aus op. 2 Vier Klavierstücke

aus op. 11 Vier Rhapsodien

This volume reproduces directly from an authoritative Russian edition the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement.