Schon bei Ravel, Gershwin oder Strawinsky findet man die Verbindung des schwermütigen Blues-Charakter mit dem melodischen und klanglichen Duktus der Kunstmusik. Auf der Basis der bildhaften Formulieru...
Wie bereits in seiner Jazz-Partita über Lobe den Herren (Schott, ED 21913) kombiniert Peter Wittrich auch in dieser Komposition wieder Jazz-Elemente mit traditioneller Orgelschreibweise. Nun danket al...
Wittrich's modern interpretation of one of the most famous chorales in which traditional forms and structures of traditional church music merge with flavours of jazz, rock and pop music.
Does anyone not know the Little Prince? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story has been translated into many languages and is known all over the world. Peter Wittrich (*1959) set to music those individual f...
In Prayer on the Hills Peter Wittrich musically portrays the atmosphere of tranquility and vastness of a mountain landscape. The highly religious undertone is, only by way of exception, interrupted ef...
The first in a series of five concertos, Concerto 1 sees several Marian songs arranged like a sonata in a traditional large-scale three-movement form. For example the hymn of praise Salve Regina is co...
Teachers again and again ask for easy-to-play double-bass music suitable for lessons or the competition 'Jugend musiziert'. The composer Peter Wittrich from Munich has undertaken this task and compose...
The fun and fascination with disguising oneself to be someone else for a moment has been expressed many times in music through compositions such as Un ballo in maschera, Masquerade or Carnaval. In the...
Eine Sammlung verschiedener Stile: Klassischer Klaviersatz trifft auf jazzige Elemente, Bach grüßt die Beatles, zeitgemäße Tonsprache steht neben traditioneller Ausdrucksweise. Jedem Stück ist ein kur...
