Spartiti difficile di Schott Musik

This collection is more than just a continuation of volume 1 (4 Lieder ohne Worte = AVV 131), pieces from both volumes can be mixed and played in different running order. The intermezzi are in irregul...

The solo part in this edition contains the annotations made for the first performance with the soloist Anne Sophie Mutter.

Strongly influenced by Russian Impressionism this concerto can also be performed with a small string ensemble. A recent recording by the young Russian virtuoso Maxim Vengerow with conductor Mstislav R...

Henri Dutilleux was born in Angers, France, in 1916. This ten-minute Nocturne in one movement was first performed in London by Anne-Sophie Mutter. The demanding solo part has closely alternating virtu...

Year of composition: 2014

'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...

Whilst Stravinsky himself did not know several of the people whom he was commissioned to write memorials for, in this case it seems Stravinsky did have a connection to Onnou, as the Pro Arte Quartet h...

In his 'Art of Fugue' Bach himself introduced a theme based on the four letters of his name: the notes we know as Bb A C B correspond to the German note names B A C H. Since that time, many composers...

The opulent music of this masterpiece by Paul Hindemith is perfectly suitable for an organ version. Although the organ is one of the few instruments never played by Hindemith, the three sonatas and tw...

Zum 70. Geburtstag von Dieter Schnebel im März 2000 erschienen zeitgleich die Werke 'Zwischenfugen' (ED8193) und 'Toccata mit Fugen' (ED8630), die jedoch im Abstand von 10 Jahren komponiert worden sin...

A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were, Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.E...

Jean Guillou did not change a single note for this arrangement. He just distributed the different parts to the manuals and the pedal in a way that guarantees a clear and varied registration in harmony...

Suite consiste in sei brevi pezzi virtuosi per sassofono contralto e pianoforte. Ho composto la suite nel 2014 su commissione del leggendario sassofonista Nobuya Sugawa, con il quale ho anche suonato...

Il brano è dedicato a John Harle e alla Bournemouth Sinfonietta, che lo ha commissionato con i fondi della South West Arts. Si avvale della capacità del sassofono di eseguire lunghi passaggi melodici...

Raaf Hekkema, virtuoso sassofonista olandese, ha arrangiato i famosi 24 Capricci op. 1 di Niccolò Paganini per sassofono solo - per sassofono soprano o contralto, a seconda del registro. Nel 2007, Hek...

Un lamento che parla da solo: il dolore, la rabbia, la tristezza e infine la rassegnazione. Questa composizione è stata scritta su richiesta e in stretta collaborazione con la sassofonista Femke IJlst...

Jörg Widmann, solista ricercato a livello internazionale e professore di clarinetto alla Musikhochschule di Friburgo, mostra la squisita raffinatezza del suono contemporaneo del clarinetto nei "Fünf B...

Nel corso degli anni, il genere del quartetto di sassofoni mi è stato piuttosto estraneo - fino a quando non ho ascoltato il Kebyart Ensemble. L'omogeneità e il virtuosismo del suono di questi quattro...