Wolfgang Birtel

The first of three songs written by Faure in the 1870s, that he would later publish as Op. 7. Après un rêve is a hauntingly romantic song that is now available in this setting for trombone and piano.

Sniff a little Berlin air, fire up the organ-organ and off we go to the Metropol Theater: to a round dance of igniting melodies by Paul Lincke, who enraptured Berliners from the beginning of the 20th...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

The 19th century was not only the era of great forms, monumental symphonies and melodious sonatas, no, the Romantic composers proved to be versatile and highly imaginative on the field of little music...

The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leip...

Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad lib.) oder Streichorchester. Partitur und Stimmen.

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...

Der österreichisch-ungarische Komponist Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) war musikalisch frühreif: Auf Empfehlung Antonín Dvoráks erhielt er Klavierunterricht mit sieben Jahren, wurde mit zehn Jahren Schül...

Welcher Musiker kennt das Problem nicht: statt Haydn, Mozart oder Beethoven ist etwas 'Leichtes' gefragt. Zur Geburtstagsfeier oder zur Kaffeetafel im Freien, zum Festbankett oder zur Weihnachtsfeier...