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Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre. His Three Meditations for Violoncello were theatrical in their inspiration, were as the Pietà for solo violin exploits the full technical range of...

These attributes mentioned here: Ease -Swiftness - Precision - Vividness - Complexity - are used by Benjamin Schweitzer as signposts for putting the pop into the weasel in his solo violin part. Out of...

In his Violin Sonata, the internationally renowned Turkish pianist Faz?l Say combines the classical western form with folk music elements of his home country, spiced with jazz-like intensified rhythms...

Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...

Deep Slavic emotion and riveting virtuosity - this is what characterises many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has re...

The compositions published here for the first time are highly interesting, especially because they represent two creative periods: Poème lyrique was written in the 1910s and is a proof of the composer...

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

This work, composed in 1990 at the suggestion of the violinist Saschko Gawriloff, is in the tradition of great virtuoso violin concertos. Originally consisting of three movements, the work was revised...

In this sonata, calm passages alternate with extremely lively ones in traditional style. The piano plays in chordal style most of the time as real accompaniment, with polyphonic ensemble playing not b...

In his choice of the title La Follia, Krzysztof Penderecki recalls the tradition of virtuosic variations on a Sarabande originating from the Baroque period. The theme is introduced first in pizzicato,...

Stanley Weiner (1925-1951) is mainly remembered as a performer: a solo violinist. His musical career was predetermined for his father served as assistant principal violinist to the Baltimore Symphony...

Der auf Sylt geborene und in Marburg verstorbene Gustav Jenner komponierte drei Violinsonaten, darunter diese 1893 komponierte Sonate in B-Dur. Jenner wurde 1888 Schüler Johannes Brahms' und übernahm...

Johann Senfter (1879 -1961) wrote three sonatas for Viola solo; modelled on the Solo Sonatas of Max Reger, who was Senfter's teacher of composition in 1908/09 in Leipzig.

Thema der hintersinnig-virtuosen Variationen ist das Andante aus Leopold Mozarts Sinfonie D-Dur (Eisen D 26).

The Violin Concerto, written in 1928, is one of Egk's most significant instrumental works. It is indicative of the contemporary climate of innovation as reflected in the development of new genres for...

Goehr brings an ancient world to life in his setting of eight texts by Hesiod and Homer. Translated into English by Dorothy Wilder and the composer, this song cycle uses the classic stories of Prometh...

The output of this versatile musician encompasses a multitude of styles from 'classical' avant-garde to pop, thanks to his wide-ranging activities as composer, performer, writer and teacher. Schneider...