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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...

More than just a collection of difficult passages for the aspiring orchestral pro, these extracts from the classical, romantic and twentieth-century concert repertoire reveal the tricks of the trade.U...

Dieses erste Cellokonzert wurde vom Orchestre de Paris in Auftrag gegeben und 1999 von diesem Orchester zusammen mit Anssi Karttunen als Solisten unter der Leitung von Esa-Pekka Salonen uraufgeführt....

La compositrice afferma che il suo Concerto per violoncello è antitetico agli altri suoi concerti. "Mentre nei concerti per violino e pianoforte, nel Doppio Concerto e nel mio nuovo concerto per sheng...

Anmerkung des Herausgebers: Nachdem Osvald Gloijov seine Komposition 'Fish Tale' beendet hatte, nannte er sie ein 'Aquarell' - eine poetisch angemessene Beschreibung ihres glitschigen, flüssigen, dahi...

In The Woman and the Hare teilen sich Sopran und eine weibliche Sprecherin den Text, wobei jede in ihrer eigenen musikalischen Geschwindigkeit singt bzw. spricht. Die Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden...

Das Stück Allegro ma non troppo wurde im Winter 1993/94 im Elektronischen Studio der Technischen Universität realisiert und zum 50. Geburtstag von Folkmar Hein, seinem langjährigen Leiter, in Auftrag...

This work in four movements is inspired by the work of the photographer Richard Avedon, in particular the following images: * The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Waldorf Astoria, suite 28A, New York, Apr...

Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938, is incontestably one of the supreme creations of mo...

Ariel, per clarinetto basso, violino, violoncello e pianoforte, è una risposta all'omonima poesia di Sylvia Plath. Simpson ha reagito musicalmente alla poesia, annotando le idee per le combinazioni st...

Eine dreisätzige Elegie für das alte und neue Kuba, die die harten Umstände der Revolution und die darauffolgende Vertreibung thematisiert. Der Komponist erklärt: 'Für den ersten Satz Havanna Dreams h...

Nota del compositore: Beware Of combina nastro con flauto contralto, viola e arpa. Il nastro comprende una poesia scritta e letta da Colleen Clyne, con frammenti di registrazioni delle parti strumenta...

Nota del compositore: The Violin è stato ispirato dai miei cari amici e meravigliosi violinisti, Neil Dufallo e Amy Kauffman di New York City, e da un altro caro amico e liutaio, Bruno Guastalla, di O...

La Mother Goose Suite di Maurice Ravel è composta da cinque affascinanti miniature, ognuna delle quali evoca una scena fiabesca. Dalla semplicità dell'iniziale "Pavane of Sleeping Beauty" alla danza v...

La Mother Goose Suite di Maurice Ravel è composta da cinque affascinanti miniature, ognuna delle quali evoca una scena fiabesca. Dalla semplicità dell'iniziale "Pavane of Sleeping Beauty" alla danza v...

Dieses zeitgenössische Werk des Klarinettisten Mark Simpson wurde für das Halbfinale des Wettbewerbs BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006' komponiert, das Simpson genauso gewann wie den Wettbewerb BBC...

A cycle of six of Finzi's songs arranged for voice and chamber orchestra to mark the composer's centenary in 2001. One of them, When I set out for Lyonnesse, was a hitherto unpublished orchestration o...

Once Upon a Castle (2003; revised 2015) for organ and orchestra is Michael Daugherty's nostalgic trip down memory lane based on his visits to the Hearst Castle, the vision and private residence of Ame...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...