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Although the organ clearly represents the centre of the musical action in Jean Guillou's Concerto No. 5 'Le Roi Arthur', the accompanying brass quintet has an important role. Like the noble knights at...

The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this tech...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

The cycle of 27 lithographs on the Apocalypse of St. John created by Max Beckmann in his Dutch exile in 1941 inspired Benjamin Schweitzer to compose 27 musical 'sheets' as well. 'The pictures are fill...

Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) - Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These...

The four demanding songs of different character for countertenor with baritone tessitura and natural horn in F and E flat are based on the collection of poems 'Briensertiitsch Va?a?rsa' by the Swiss w...

In Heinz Holliger's works, the succinct term 'transcriptions' conceals multi-layered variants of the enigmatic source material and the most subtle diversification of sound, using the technical possibi...

Heinz Holliger composed the three-movement work in January 2016 as funeral music for the legendary flutist Aurèle Nicolet who had died shortly before. The pivotal middle movement sons d'or for bass fl...

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This collection contains musical birthday greetings to composers and instrumentalists who are close friends of Heinz Holliger. The very different pieces were created over a period of 15 years for the...

This work, regarded as a homage to Brahms, has a key position within Ligeti's oeuvre. It is especially notable for the pithy way in which the memorable thematic material is shaped into precisely defin...

The formal thinking behind the piece is based on the interaction between individually determined periodic rhythms and a cumulative polyrhythmic overall structure. Although the overall rhythmic structu...

This concerto follows the structure of the Italian overture - fast, slow, fast. The first movement is a sonata form without development, based on three themes, rhythmical, oriental, waltz respectively...

Peteris Vasks has written a large number of pieces for the organ, both original works and arrangements of his own pieces which had originally been written for strings. The Riga-based composer created...

Here it is at long last: the music for the extremely successful storybook + CD (ED 9686). It can be used for performances both with the original English words by Oscar Wilde and the German translation...

Hammerklavier' is a full-length cycle in which the composer sends the listener on a journey, a journey into the unknown; this journey presents itself as an act of unleashing, taking Eggert on a depart...

The title of the piece refers to the Agama, a fundamental holy scripture of early Buddhism. The young composer says about it: 'The basic ideas of these writings were a source of my inspiration. The co...

A concert suite of three pieces for piano, clarinet and violin. The composer has created concise aural pictures: whimsical, witty and pointed, they make an appealing addition to the contemporary chamb...