Spartiti difficile per Violoncello

My work lautlos II for solo cello further explores the idea of an inner dialogue between the performer and his or her instrument, in a manner similar to my previous work lautlos I. The instrumentalist...

Das Konzert wurde vor kurzem in der Budapester Nationalbibliothek aufgespürt. Es weist viele Stilmerkmale mit den gleichartigen Konzerten von Joseph Haydn auf. Eine Herausforderung für den Solisten -...

3 Lullabies for Violoncello and Piano.

These are the latest example of the little pieces Turnage has always composed for friends and personal occasions. More intimate and tender than his orchestral statements, these small works are immedia...

A brilliant pianist, Watkins is loved by instrumentalists for the sheer quality of his writing. The Sonata is already widely performed as welcome repertoire in her genre.

Kai' was written in memory of Kai Scheffler, principal cellist and a key member of the Ensemble Modern in Germany, who died tragically young in 1989. The 18 minute work is in four continuous movements...

Die hängende Figur ist Judas' (The hanging figure is Judas) was commissioned by Dr. Margitta Giera as a gift for the German sculptor Michael Langer. Hesketh's first ideas for the work came from a phot...

The Sonata, in six movements, is the direct outcome of Peter Maxwell Davies' encounter with the 'pievi' - early medieval rural churches - of Tuscany. He writes: 'In particular, it was inspired by the...

The title '...called dusk' quotes the last line of the prose fragment 'Lessness' by Samuel Beckett: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'. As regards the compositional structu...

Zum 75. Geburtstag (2000) hatte ich Pierre Boulez ein feuillet d'album nur für Solostimme auf das Gedicht monde des grossartigen Dichters Philippe Jaccottet geschickt, der mit Pierre Boulez den gleich...

Virtuoser Jazz in klassischer Form: Nikolai Kapustin (geb. 1937) ist ein exzellenter Jazz-Pianist, Arrangeur und Komponist. Das Stück Elegy entstand im Jahr 1999 zusammen mit zwei weiteren Werken für...