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The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...

The piano trio in F major Op. 8, composed in 1896, is one of Pfitzner's most successful works and was often performed during his lifetime, as for example by Alma Mahler. Several recent prominent CD re...

The music by the Russian-Swiss composer Paul Juon (1872-1940) fascinates by unusual rhythms and rousing melodies full of folk echoes. During his lifetime, Paul Juon was the most famous composer of his...

Alfred Oelschlegel was born in Anscha (Bohemia, now Czech Republic) on 25 February 1847. He was a student at the Prague organ school, and worked as a theater conductor among others in Hamburg, Würzbur...

The piano quartet 'Lost traces' is based on the piano trio Distant traces in which the violoncello had been replaced by a viola, a fact that is highly unusual for the genre. Whereas the first version...

Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier. Das Werk soll Christian Josts Bewunderung für den Regisseur Stanley Kubrick ausdrücken. Ein kurzes Eröffnungsmodell führt in eine rhythmische Figur, die sich m...

Adagio - Allegro moderato Adagio cantabile Menuetto - Allegro molto Finale - Allegro

'There is an unwritten rule saying that the artist should have to keep his art and personal matters strictly separate.' Says the composer York Höller, only to instantly object: 'If Alban Berg had abid...

Das Stück wurde von dem IMS Prussia Cove aus Anlass des 40-jährigen Bestehens von Open Chamber Music' in Auftrag gegeben, das von der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung gegründet wurde. Komponiert wurde...

Das Stück wurde von dem IMS Prussia Cove aus Anlass des 40-jährigen Bestehens von Open Chamber Music' in Auftrag gegeben, das von der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung gegründet wurde. Komponiert wurde...

These two chamber music works are one of the main focuses in the oeuvre of Ulvi Cemal Erkin. Lively and spirited, they combine Western European tradition with rhythmic and melodic elements from Turkis...

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...

Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) is one of the most widely known young composers in China. From 1978-1983 he studied at the Central Conservatory of Music of China. As early as 1982 he won 1st prize in the Alexan...

Spielpartitur - mit Klavierauszug, nur zur Probe

Emotions from intense anger to morbid despair are conveyed through this powerful vocal work depicting the viewpoints of poets from the Great War. Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'The Torn Fields' sets the word...

The concerto takes the historical figure of the brutal impaler Vlad Tzepesch (1431-1476) as its starting point and subsequently develops the myth into an overwrought and gruesome piece of work: 1: 'Od...

Double concerto for piano, violoncello and orchestra bears the subtitle 'Romantic Offering' by which the composer describes the idea and intellectual form of the musical material. At the same time, he...

Partch composed and produced the music for the film Windsong by Madeline Tourtelot in 1958. In this film, the ancient legend of Daphne and Apollo was transferred to the dunes of Lake Michigan - as a r...

Summer 1955 is a curious collection of unrelated compositions that Partch composed or revised around the same time; he likely did not intend it to be performed as a set. The five short pieces are impo...