Spartiti difficile di Schott Musik

The circumstances of the origin of Sinfonia concertante in Eb major (KV 297 b) are disputed; it was probably created in Paris in April 1778 for four famous solo instrumentalists of the Mannheim Court...

Ein musikalisches Kleinod, das mit jeder Note den ebenso sensiblen wie schalkhaften Tonkünstler verrät. Jean Franþaix' 'Mozart New Look' ist ein typisches Beispiel seiner heiteren Spielmusik, die Spaß...

Ein musikalisches Kleinod, das mit jeder Note den ebenso sensiblen wie schalkhaften Tonkünstler verrät. Jean Françaix' 'Mozart New Look' ist ein typisches Beispiel seiner heiteren Spielmusik, die Spaß...

Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

A ballerina in a music box has a secret life. Although she appears to behave normally, when the lid is closed she has a life of her own. The combination of vibraphone and guitar quartet depict this sc...

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...

In these lieder, Robert Schumann seems to mirror his life full of crises. The composition coincides with the first signs of his illness. The picture of the drowning Ophelia evoked in the first chant con...

This short trio combines angular lines and troubling chromaticism to create a highly effective piece of mood music with an empty, eerie feel to it. A beautiful and poignant work in memory of the celli...

12 Chorgruppen (SSAA/AABB/STB/AATB/SSTT/STTB/SSBB/AAB/AATT/ATTB/SAB/TTBB)

Hans Werner Henze used original music by Scarlatti, Handel and Vivaldi to evoke the baroque lifestyle for a TV film of José Montes-Baquer based on the novella Concierto Barocco by the Cuban Alejo Carp...

180 Beats per minute' entstand 1993, kurz nach meiner Schulzeit. Die damals sehr angesagten 'Techno-Nights' inspirierten mich zu diesem Stück. Ein rhythmischer Drive und ein permanenter Wechsel des Pu...

Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre; in addition to numerous compositions for musical theatre and for orchestra, this viola player who formerly played in orchestras and chamber ensembl...

Form and Postlude is a piece in one continuous movement but with a distinct postlude which ends the work. I play throughout with the idea of pacing on many levels: the largest level is the idea of pro...

The first version of Mobile for oboe and harp was composed by Heinz Holliger as early as 1962 while studying with Pierre Boulez. The piece is based on the tone row used by Boulez in his Piano Sonata N...

Peteris Vasks has written compositions for organ again and again, whether original works or arrangements of his own works for strings. He drew his ideal sound image and his inspiration from the famous...

'Sahaf' is part of the cycle 'Shifting Gravity' in which the Israeli composer, known worldwide for her Mozart adaptation Zaïde/Adama, explores the laws of physics and their physical realization in a p...

Sopran, Blockflöte (Flöte), Zink (Oboe) und Vihuela (Gitarre)

The distinctive, motor-like rhythm and echoes of Arabian folk music characterise the three variations, rich in contrast, for two pianos and percussion. A perfect addition to the modern classics for th...

Written for the mighty organ of Notre Dame, Paris, this short work uses the full dynamic range of the organ. Loud, sonorous chords designed to fill a cathedral are juxtapositioned with extremely quiet...