Spartiti difficile per Ensemble d'archi

'Oh, I love now, with all my fears and forebodings, for now I still am not completely moulded. My life is still just beginning. I am strong. I long for a cause to devote my energies to.' This quotatio...

Commissioned by the Swiss Braunwald Music Festival Week 2007, Redel takes up the festival theme of 'Folk music as a source of art music' in three movements: here, he refers to concrete folk songs or f...

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...

Die im Titel genannten Namen beziehen sich auf Allegra Mostyn-Owen und Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen ist die einzige Tochter der italienischen Dichterin Gaia Servadio und des Historikers Mostyn-O...

The long-term friendship between Anne-Sophie Mutter and Krzysztof Penderecki has not only produced the second violin concerto ('Metamorphoses') and the second sonata for violin, but also the new Duo c...

This work of ca. 12 minutes' duration was composed at the suggestion of the cellist Sol Gabetta in remembrance of the great mystic St. Teresa of Avila. Premiered in 2014, it will surely find its way i...

Dans le pays natal du compositeur chinois, la fleur du pêcher est un symbole de recommencement et d'immortalité. Dans cette (oEuvre, des fleurs tourbillonnantes sont dotées d'un symbolisme visuel impr...

Amaro Drom is a duo for violin and cello in the style of the Spanish Tango Flamenco (not to be confounded with its Argentinian namesake). This dance is exuberant and full of festive energy, but in mod...

Nicht unweit von Haydns langjähriger Wirkungsstätte, Schloss Esterháza in Ungarn, begann 100 Jahre nach Haydns Tod ein junger Ungar Feldforschungen zur Folklore seiner Heimat: Zoltán Kodály. An der Se...

Partitur und Stimmen - Partitur mit eingelegter Geigenstimme

Eli lamah asabthani - My God, why have you left me', this word of Jesus Christ on the cross has been set to instrumental music in the slow movement of the string trio. Taken as an individual setting,...

Epitaphium' wurde ursprünglich für die Trauerfeier des 2007 verstorbenen britischen Fagottisten und Musikwissenschaflters William Waterhouse geschrieben. Der Komponist Graham Waterhouse wollte seinem...

With serious string players this Latvian composer has long been recognized because of his sonorous tonal concepts and his modal, occasionally aleatoric idiom. Works like 'Cantabile per Archi' or 'Musi...

String Quartet No. 5 consists of two contrasting movements. The first movement, being present, immediately leads to an atmosphere of high emotional tension. The prevailing atmospheric elements of the...