Musik unserer Zeit

Dieses Werk des 1955 in Beirut geborenen und in Frankreich lebenden Komponisten und Organisten Naji Hakim wurde anlässlich des 450. Jahrestages des Augsburger Religionsfriedens in Auftrag gegeben. Die...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur - Oboe, Englisch Horn, Horn und Streichorchester

Originally entitled ,Music of Sorrow', the work was written in 1939, duringthe first months of World War II. It is Karl Amadeus Hartmann's onlyviolin concerto and at the same time his most famous piec...

It was at the suggestion of the conductor of the World Première, Mariss Jansons, that Jörg Widmann refers to musical characteristics of Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphony. His starting points primarily...

Ich wandere durch diesen alten Ort, einsam, einem Geiste gleich. Die letzten Worte des Gedichts 'Noche de verano' ('Sommernacht') von Antonio Machado geben die unheimliche Atmosphäre wieder, die Luigi...

The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new w...

Commissioned by the BBC to inaugurate Birmingham's Symphony Hall on 12 June 1991, the sense of optimism surrounding that event is exactly mirrored in Momentum's long melodic lines and vibrant rhythms,...

The work is based on a tune called The Nag written by the jazz guitarist/composer John Scofield, of whom I have long been a fan and with whom I worked closely when writing Blood on the Floor (Mark-Ant...

No. 37b is a suite of four short pieces for orchestra. Like many of the composer's works the subject matter revolves around death and after life. Featuring some of the composer's most chaotic and fren...