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When some time ago I looked at works by the painter Egon Schiele whom I admire very much, I thought which paintings would have been painted by this artist, had he not died much too early. I envisioned...

My 2nd string quartet is one single slow movement. The piece does not directly reflect Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words but I would not have been able to write it without knowing that work. The movemen...

The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jörg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the perfo...

The 15 Miniatures do not follow any of the common classical forms. They rather remind us of bagatelles, but their motifs and structures are carefully interwoven: dialogues, sometimes virtuoso, sometim...

Two completely different worlds meet in this quartet: on the one hand, a soundscape living mainly through slight changes of a mostly stagnant sound and occasionally turning into an Aeolian harp-like h...

Composed for violinist Baird Dodge; James Matheson's Spin is a three-movement study in various meanings of the word spin. I. Gyre has the character of a whimsically spinning object in a sort of arena....

Un arrangiamento frizzante del famoso "Largo al Factotum" de Il Barbiere di Siviglia di Rossini, che cattura tutta l'arguzia, il trambusto e la bravura della celebre aria d'ingresso di Figaro. Abilmen...

Partitur - Stimmensatz als Sonderanfertigung

Dense movement structures dialogizing in pairs and a darkened overall sound are what Mozart, Schubert and Brahms already thought to be fascinating in the genre of string quartet. Following this tradit...

It is not only with regard to the instrumentation that the string quintet Sonanzen (a play on the words 'consonance' and 'dissonance') follows the famous example of Schubert, and even Wagner's Tristan...

Penderecki's demanding and thrilling String Quartet No. 3 is now available in a version with double-bass. The instruments are of equal importance, the performers have to master both brilliant virtuoso...

In 2013 Michel von der Aa received the Grawemeyer Award, one of the most prestigious international composition awards, for his cello concerto 'Up-Close'. This much-noticed work was written for the Arg...