Spartiti difficile per Violino

Subtitled Before the Tryst, this sonata is in one sense a 'prequel' to the similarly scored miniature, After the Tryst (1988). The composer explains that these and other works with 'Tryst' in the titl...

Après un silence was originally written as a work for violin and piano. The piano part was subsequently orchestrated in such a way that the work may be performed with a chamber orchestra or with an en...

Taking his starting point from 17th century philosopher-poet Cyrano de Bergerac's 'Grandes Plaines du Jour', Hesketh powerfully fuses a huge range of performing and compositional techniques into this...

'Broken Lute, six pieces for violin alone', is written on a Chinese Ming story, 'The Minister, The Lute and the Woodcutter' from which Goehr has extracted key sentences and placed them at particular p...

These six short pieces might more readily be described as fantasies, each with its own sound-world but linked by shared material. The mood of each of these short movements is guided by an imaginary la...

Jörg Widmann treats the violon at first as a vocal instrument, just in the tradition of the great violin concertos of the 19th century through to Alban Berg. But from the cantabile lines, often writte...

New performance material of this 19th-century key work is now published as part of the complete critical edition of the works by Robert Schumann, in an excellent notation and with a high editorial sta...

In a conversation with the violinist Peter Herresthal, we touched on the “invitation' in the score of Ligeti's Violin concerto to provide a cadenza for the work. Peter suggested that I answer this inv...

In 2006, Jörg Widmann composed these noble, deliberately simple cadenzas for Mozart's violin concerto as a commission from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and violinist Isabelle van Keulen. In t...

Geschrieben für Isabelle Faust, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Hansheinz Schneeberger und Thomas Zehetmair sind die 4 Hommages teils vergnügliche Encores, teils ausgewachsene Konzertstücke und Etüden in ava...

Nikolai Kapustin is regarded as pioneer of the Soviet jazz scene. In his music he combines typical jazz idioms with classical forms. The Sonata Op. 70 in three movements for violin and piano was writt...

In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations....