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Artemide Locheia è la dea greca della fertilità. In quest'opera in un solo movimento, Maxwell Davies cattura la gioia e l'esuberanza delle coppie quando scoprono di aspettare un bambino.

Dalle dolci cantilene ai cinguettii polifonici degli uccelli, Heinz Holliger trasferisce lo stato d'animo dei testi sottostanti in un dialogo strumentale. Un'affascinante aggiunta al repertorio contem...

Als Auftragswerk für den Physiker Sam Steppel komponierte Olli Mustonen drei Sätze unterschiedlichen Charakters: Auf die geheimnisvollen Klänge des Misterioso folgt ein wildes Furioso. Der prägnante d...

My Piano Quintet consists of four contrasting movements. The first movement, entitled Mannheim Rocket, is a modern take on the 18th-century musical technique in which a rising figure speeds up and gro...

Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melo...

Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre. As a viola player who used to play in orchestras and chamber ensembles, Kirchner's leaning towards the composition of chamber music is evident, bes...

'Christmas - Peace on Earth' is the leading motive of the String Quartet, a tenet of faith as well as an expression of hope. In the first part of the work Vasks uses themes from a well-known Christmas...

The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra, 'Cantabile', 'Musica dolorosa' and 'Voices', is concentrating increasingly on chamber music: his lates...

My love is as a fever wurde von Sonetten William Shakespeares inspiriert. Das Werk entstand für das Faust Quartett mit dem Anspruch, bei neuer Kompositionstechnik, sowohl vom emotionalen Ausdruck als...

This work is among the subtropical plants series of composer Xiaogang Ye's wroks, in which include Enchanted Bamboo, Hibiscus, Datura, December Chrysanthemum, Scent of Green Mango,etc. These works sho...

Gobi Gloria belongs to a series of compositions that grew out of my admiration for Mongolian music. The series include Feng (for cello solo, written for Feng Hew), Gobi Polyphony (for erhu and cello,...

Gobi Gloria belongs to a series of compositions that grew out of my admiration for Mongolian music. The series include Feng (for cello solo, written for Feng Hew), Gobi Polyphony (for erhu and cello,...

Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was commissioned by the Chiara String Quartet. It consists of seven movements, highly contrasting in character, with movements I and VII serving as similar bookends to...

Song Recollections is based on the beautiful folk music of Taiwanese aboriginal tribes, which I fell in love with many years ago. My good friends from Taiwan introduced these songs to me when I was a...

Song Recollections is based on the beautiful folk music of Taiwanese aboriginal tribes, which I fell in love with many years ago. My good friends from Taiwan introduced these songs to me when I was a...

The slow movement uses a theme reminiscent of a folktune. Korngold incorporated this theme into the sound track for the film 'The Sea Wolf'.

The five strings quartets by Jörg Widmann are compact studies, like those of his teacher Wolfgang Rihm. Performed individually, the focus is on the respective central technical and aesthetic idea. Per...

Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actu...