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Hosokawa composed this ten-minute, one-movement piece for the chamber music festival in Kuhmo (Finland). The players need to be familiar with modern playing techniques. If this requirement of modern p...

Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

Jost's piano quartet is an homage to the outstanding Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and his adaptations of three Shakespeare tragedies ('Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Macbeth'). Although 'Spinnwebwald...

A trio combining gentle, hypnotic music with more troubled outbursts, this atmospheric work evokes moods associated with night and sleep. The highly complementary combination of clarinet, violin and p...

Setting Dylan Thomas's evocative yet humble poem 'In my craft or sullen art', Watkins conjures up a beautifully introspective introduction with the use of a simple quintuplet motif which is later tran...

Postlude' was one of 10 birthday candles written for Mobius' 10th anniversary and is scored for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet. At just 3 minutes in length and with a lento tempo marking, 'P...

The idea to write a horn trio came to the composer (also an acclaimed pianist) after giving a concert with a horn player from the Nash Ensemble, which included the Ligeti and the Brahms horn trios. Wh...

Commissioned for the renowned Florestan Trio in 2009 and performed them in the UK, France and Germany, Huw Watkins' Piano Trio is a formidable addition to the chamber music repertoire. As an establish...

York Höller's contribution to the classical genre of trios for clarinet, viola and piano, which is also significant for New Music, was premiered by members of the Ensemble Modern as part of 'Fokus Per...

By the associative-metaphorical title York Höller refers to the determinants of his oeuvre. These references change in various ways and are to be understood in terms of both space (the graphic develop...

By the associative-metaphorical title York Höller refers to the determinants of his oeuvre. These references change in various ways and are to be understood in terms of both space (the graphic develop...

'Privacy' means separation. The title of the trio for clarinet, violin and piano thus describes the character of the piece. The piano weaves sound tapestries of deep and long, yet fully fingered chord...

A very important addition to the voice and clarinet repertoire, by the renowned and esteemed Alan Ridout, which was originally written for Georgina Dobrée, probably in late 1978 or early 1979. For som...

An Invention on 'Solitude' is typical of much of the music Turnage has written for chamber ensembles: in contrast to the flamboyant contrasts and dangerous edge to his orchestral music, this is quiet,...