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This intriguing concertino links the different stylistic idioms of Impressionism and Jazz and is extremely memorable and worthwhile. A recording based on this edition with Michael Rische as soloist is...

Despite its seemingly sparse texture, this is a large-scale, virtuosic concerto in an expressive tonal idiom, full of memorable rhythmic detail. It waspremiered in 1992, 32 years after its composition...

Shchedrin, son of a composer and music teacher, underwent a thorough musical training in Moscow. His versatility and dazzling competence across a wide variety of musical genres are surely a result of...

Der erste Band dieser Reihe enthält die wegen ihrer Virtuosität berüchtigte sogenannte 'Donau-Arabeske' des polnischen Pianisten Adolf Schulz-Evler, in deren geradezu genialer Einleitung das berühmtes...

Ich schrieb diese kleine Paraphrase der Gavotte aus Bachs Partita in E-dur vor zwanzig Jahren. Eigentlich ist sie eine Art doppelte Hommage: auf der einen Seite ist es natürlich ein Tribut an J. S. Ba...

Early on in his remarkable career as a concert pianist Glenn Gould composed a few works of his own: a String Quartet (ED 8764), Piano Pieces (ED 8319) and the Sonata in two movements presented here. W...

Glenn Gould's transcriptions of the Siegfried Idyll, Morning Mist and Siegfried's Journey along the Rhine from Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen are already legendary as recordings. The Siegfrie...

With the prelude to the Mastersingers we now publish the second of three Wagner transcriptions already made legendary by Gould's 1973 recording. Gould brought Wagner's 'brilliant counterpoint' to life...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most prominent composers for piano of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the first performances o...

Tchaikovsky wrote his second piano sonata in 1878 and dedicated this 'Grande Sonate' to the notable pianist Karl Klindworth, his colleague at the Moscow Conservatoire, who prepared the manuscript for...

This 'Fantasia in G' was only recently discovered among the last manuscripts to be examined in the Nino Rota archive in Venice. Together with the '15 Preludes' (ED 9386), it is one of the few works by...

Originally for solo cello, 'Tre Laude Dolçe' is characterised by long phrases and open structures; a beautiful work perfect for any good bassist.

Acknowledging the lack of original repertoire for his instrument, Nicholas Lens wrote this collection of individual studies and movements. Having been written specifically for the double bass as a ful...

Ich habe mein Bestes gegeben, das ursprüngliche Werk originalgetreu wiederzugeben. Allerdings tauchen in der Bearbeitung Stellen auf, an denen Klänge umgestaltet wurden, damit sie den technischen Beso...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Der Klavierauszug dient lediglich zu Studienzwecken. Eine öffentliche Aufführung in der Fassung für Bratsche und Klavier ist untersagt.

Garth Knox is one of the most prominent violists of his generation, and as former long-time member of the Arditti Quartet he has developed and maintained a fondness of contemporary music. In the meant...

Sonnets is a collection of miniatures for cello and piano. To me, these micro-pieces are sonnets not in the rigorously formalized Elizabethan or Petrarchan senses of the word. Rather, they grow from t...

The genesis of the Viola Sonata reflects the eventful life of Hindemith in the winter of 1938/39 and owes its completion to Hindemith's ability to compose even while travelling, especially on trains....