Spartiti medio per Ensemble d'archi

This piece was originally intended as part of a larger cycle based on a series of paintings by Marc Chagall. The fiddle of the title is the main protagonist in this little movement for string trio, th...

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was...

Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a s...

The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting to...

In his second string quartet the composer Harald Weiss counters our fast-moving time with a work on silence and concentration. Rubatos, fermatas and little caesuras are added to simple note values - l...

Luthervariationen für Streichquartett wurden inspiriert von der Musik und dem Leben des Reformators Martin Luther. Die Dramatik, die das Leben Luthers prägte, legte es nahe, die einzelnen Sätze der Lu...

Die Uraufführung des Streichquartetts e-Moll fand am 6. November 1925 in Göttingen im Studentenheim am Wilhelmsplatz statt. Es spielte das Bentz-Quartett, eines von wenigen reinen Frauenensembles der...

The Phantasy, written when the composer was twenty for the Cobbett prize at the Royal College of Music. The piece demonstrates a confidence and flair, as well as an emerging sense of the distinctive A...

Das Angebot an klassischer Literatur für Orchester, Kammer- und Schulensembles ist reichhaltig. Dagegen sucht der Musikerzieher oft vergebens nach populärer Musik, die seinem Ensemble Spass macht. Die...

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Erwin Schulhoff's Duo for violin and cello premiered in the same year it was composed, in Venice in 1925.

Zikmund Schul was born in Chemnitz in 1916 and died in the ghetto of Terezín in 1944. He is one of the composers who have been neglected when reappraising the music of the so-called Terezín composers....

The Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) had a penchant for fairy tales and devoted himself to such stories at an early age: to the character of the seafarer and gusli player Sadko in...