Spartiti difficile di Schott Musik

Agnus Dei from the Polish Requiem for eight-part choir was written after the death of the Primate of the Polish Catolic Church Stefan Wyszynski. It is slow in tempo, supplicatory in nature and quasi-t...

The Latvian region Zemgale is infamous for atrocities committed in the 13th century and in 1949. It has become a symbol for the deportation of Latvians. Vasks uses the text in a linear as well as in a...

This dramatic episode is taken from Pushkin's novella about the execution of a Russian social revolutionary in 1775 and presented by the composer as an acoustic scene. Here is something really special...

The beauty of the Latvian landscape inspired many of my works, for it has given me moments of exceptional happiness. The plains are a dominant feature of the Latvian countryside, a place where one can...

Dieses Stück, ein Auftragswerk von Odile Amossé für ihren Kammerchor EVOA, wurde von Passagen aus den Lusiaden, dem bekanntesten Werk des portugiesischen Dichters Luis de Camoes, inspiriert. Es beschw...

Matthew Brown interprets the liturgical phrase Dona Nobis Pacem (meaning 'grant us peace') as the lifelong struggle of individuals to achieve peace in their own lives. These ideas are expressed by the...

One of Gavin Bryars' early major choral works, On Photography uses texts by Pope Leo XIII combining a modern subject matter (photography) and archaic language (Latin) with music of timeless beauty. Th...

gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (SBar), Kinderchor (SMezA), 2 Orgel und Instrumental-Ensemble

A reflexion on the central Christian values of faith, love and hope, described as 'Sinfonia sacra'. The musical setting of Martin Luther's text is published in a new arrangement for the upcoming Luthe...

Nelle sue prime opere orchestrali, tra il 1952 e il 1955, Luigi Nono scrisse diversi intermezzi o parti di movimento indipendenti per soli strumenti a percussione. Durante il periodo trascorso da Nono...

Die junge Schlgazeugerin Leonie Klein hat eine Solo-Fassung des genialen Schlagzeugkonzerts von Peter Eötvös geschrieben. Virtuos lehrt der Schlagzeuger seinen Instrumenten das Sprechen, bis die Tromm...

One of three works Duddell has written for percussionist Colin Currie, Snowblind highlights the melodic possibilities when writing for percussion. Throughout its three movements, Duddell takes the per...

Emotions from intense anger to morbid despair are conveyed through this powerful vocal work depicting the viewpoints of poets from the Great War. Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'The Torn Fields' sets the word...

Naoumoff was born in Sofia in 1962. His career as a pianist and composer began at the age of eight; for ten years he was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger until her death. At the age of ten Naoumoff composed...

The concerto takes the historical figure of the brutal impaler Vlad Tzepesch (1431-1476) as its starting point and subsequently develops the myth into an overwrought and gruesome piece of work: 1: 'Od...