Klassische Klavierstücke

Unter der Markgräfin Wilhelmine wurde Bayreuth lange vor Richard Wagner zu einem Anlaufpunkt für KunstfreundInnen. Das von ihr in Auftrag gegebene und 1748 fertiggestellte Markgräfliche Opernhaus wurd...

Die stilistische Vielfalt der Klaviermusik von Mel Bonis, die sich aus der langen Zeitspanne ihrer Entstehung erklärt (1888-1937), vermittelt zudem den Eindruck, als habe sie einen Abriss der Klavierm...

Im Leben erreichen wir unser Ziel (Sein), indem wir uns auf die Lebensreise (Werden) begeben nach dem Gesetz der Zeit. 'Arrow of being, arrow of becoming' reflektiert eine solche Reise.

Verzerrte Zitate von halberinnerten deutschen Volksliedern zeichnen ein Bild von dem Deutschland Hitlers. Gegenstände aus Metall, Holz, Glas und Plastik werden locker auf die Saiten gelegt und produzi...

Die 17 Chorsätze für gemischten Chor wurden von Fanny Hensel 1846, ein Jahr vor ihrem Tod, komponiert. Sie legte Tex­te von Lenau, Geibel, Goethe, Uhland, Eichendorff und Wilhelm Hensel zugrunde. Nebe...

Diese CD ist eine ausgezeichnete Gelegenheit zur Begegnung mit 27 zeitgenössischen Komponistinnen aus 14 Ländern. Von A wie Alexandra bis Z wie Zeiner: Komponistinnen aus Deutschland, England, Frankre...

Die Sonate mit ihren wie zufällig eingestreuten Sekundreibungen im ersten Satz enthält einige zauberhafte Wendungen. ... Die Musik pendelt auf überraschende und poetische Weise zwischen Prokofieff'­sc...

Die Musik von Ruth Schonthal, die im Jahr 2024 100 Jahre alt geworden wäre, berührt Zuhörende im Innersten. Das liegt daran, dass die Komponistin in all ihren Werken menschliche Gefühle, Erlebnisse un...

Inhalt 1.SEABREEZES (Windbrise) 2.SEASHELLS (Meeresmuscheln) 3.SANDCRABS (Sandkrabben) 4.SEAGULLS CIRCLING (Möwen beim Kreisen) 5.THE ECSTASY OF THE MOONLIGHT SWIMMER (Die Ekstase der Mondscheinschwim...

The Song of the Dark Red Helleborine is the seventeenth in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, and was first performed on January 4th, 1991 i...

The Song of the Violet Helleborine, written in 1987 for Philip Fowke, is the thirteenth in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, for various so...

The Song of the Late Spider Orchid was the tenth to be written in a series of musical portraits - for various instrumental combinations - of the wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland, of which the...

Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach was born on 23rd May 1759 and died on Christmas Day 1845. He was the son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach. He received training...

The Song of the Bird's-Nest Orchid was written in 1982 for Reiko Isobe. It was the fifth to be written in a series of musical portraits of the 48 species of wild orchids in Britain and Ireland. The B...

The Song of the Lizard Orchid , written in 2012 for the double piano duet team Piano 40 for a Purcell Room concert, is the 29th to be written of a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild o...

This favourite piece which was originally for piano and orchestra is here arranged for one piano with two players of intermediate standard (around grade 4 to 6). This is an abridged arrangement lastin...

My Piano Sonata Op.1 was begun in 1988 and completed in its original form in 1995. Further work on the piece was carried out subsequently at various times until the Sonata was finally finished in 2009...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

This is strikingly different in style to all my other piano music to date. Employing twelve-note procedures throughout, it is to some degree a response to newer musical influences encountered at unive...

1. Evening Twilight: Andante tranquillo 2. Cavatina: Andante tranquillo 3. Waltz: Allegretto grazioso These three pieces were composed in 2010. 'Cavatina' was the first to be written and was composed...

1. Prelude: Allegro con brio 2. Air: Largo tranquillo 3. Invention: Allegro moderato 4. Romance: Adagio ma con moto 5. Fugue: Allegro con brio This suite was written in 2010. Squeezing five brief move...