Ensemble

Gaetano Pugnani (Turin, November 27, 1731 - July 15, 1798), the Italian violinist, composer and conductor of the Teatro Regio in Turin, was a child prodigy and his exceptional talent and virtuosity br...

The Quintet was written in 1989 on the initiative of the lady piccolo player of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. The first performance was at a private concert in London on New Year's Day 19...

The tonal language of this piece resembles the type of music of jazz and rock which contains romantic elements and which was played by Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and others in the seventies. This kind...

This piece consists of three parts which merge into one another. While long, wave-like lines float horizontally in the Prelude, it is the vertical element which dominates the Trialogue. The three inst...

The tales of Heinrich Hansjakob (1837 - 1916), the chronicler of life in the Black Forest, tell of folk musicians, wandering buskers, wedding party fiddlers, pipers and trumpeters to whose music the p...

This is actually a solo piece for flute. The flute embodies the individual with its many processes of change. The percussion part, here metal instruments only, is intended as a kind of complex resonan...

Der Paukenist, Komponist und Verleger Georg Druschetzky (1745 - 1819), in Böhmen geboren und hauptsächlich in Österreich und Ungarn tätig, hat ein umfangreiches kompositorisches Werk hinterlassen, von...

With the Concerto Polonoise we do now have the last unpublished, of originally eight, transverse flute concerts by Georg Philipp Telemann in a printed edition. It is excellent as a beginner's concert,...

The virtuoso fiddler Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840) did not just impress his audience with his enormous technical skill, but also with his unusual expressive play, which aimed directly at the feelings...

Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 trombones or 2 horns, bass trombone and optional tuba), timpani, percussion and organ. An alternative orchestral accompa...

World premiere on April 4, 1988 in Toronto: Robert Aitken (alto flute) and Gianetta Baril (harp)

Premiere on November 27, 1988 in Zurich: Christina Ascher (voice) and Barbara Braukmann (violoncello)

World premiere on September 8, 1989 in Frankfurt, Frankfurt Feste: Alte Oper

Instrumentation: 1 (also Picc and AFl), 1, 1 (also BbClar in Bb), 0 - 0, 0, 0, 0 - Schlg (1) - Git, Klav - Str (V, Va, Vc, Kb; Kb viersaitig)/approx. 21 minutes Premiere on November 8, 1995 in Hamburg...

for oboe, viola and harp