Sheet Music for Mixed Ensemble

Penderecki has already added a cadenza to Haydn's Trumpet Concerto to our successful Cadenza series. What was so special about it was the use of the two orchestra horns in the trumpet cadenzas. With B...

In the work commissioned by Mozart-two-6 for the Tanzquartier Wien, Faz?l Say has transported the Viennese composer Mozart to the beach of the ancient city Patara in his own native Turkey. Say has dev...

Der 'normale' Tastatur-Klavierklang bleibt in diesem Stück die Ausnahme, in der Singstimme wird auf Text weitgehend verzichtet und die Klarinettenstimme ist übersät mit Luft- und Mehrklängen.

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

Der tschechische Komponist Petr Eben komponierte die Gutenberg-Toccata im Auftrag der Stadt Mainz zum Gutenberg-Jahr 2000. Er reflektiert die große Bedeutung Gutenbergs drucktechnischer Erfindungen fü...

In the run-up to the Schumann Year 2010, Reimann now presents one of the standard works of clarinet literature in a tonally sublime arrangement for clarinet, flute, harp and two violas in which Reiman...

The compositions by the greatest Brazilian tango composer and pianist Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (1863 -1934) are strongly influenced by Brazilian folk music. He preferred light entertainment, and his...

The compositions by the greatest Brazilian tango composer and pianist Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (1863 -1934) are strongly influenced by Brazilian folk music. He preferred light entertainment, and his...

...ni una sombra is scored for soprano, clarinet and piano, the same trio instrumentation that has become famous by Franz Schubert's Hirt auf dem Felsen. The piece contrasts a poem by Friedrich Rücker...

Even in the days of Mozart, musicians liked to experiment with instrumental orchestration. Siegfried Schwab used this approach to arrange the popular Mozart trio, consisting of the movements Allegro -...

Jost's piano quartet is an homage to the outstanding Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and his adaptations of three Shakespeare tragedies ('Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Macbeth'). Although 'Spinnwebwald...

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur. Leben und Leiden der Bojarin Morosowa und ihrer Schwester Fürstin Urussowa.

Hindemith's 'Very easy pieces for bassoon and violoncello' were created in New Haven, probably between 1941 and 1944. It was particularly in his years of exile that he liked to make music at home with...

Das 2008 uraufgeführte Werk für Klarinette und Violoncello beschreibt die Wanderung entlang eines Gebirgsbachs - Themen wie Rast, Aufbruch und Reflektion werden untermalt von den wiederkehrenden, flie...

The reason for the composition of this work is well-known: Bach's encounter with Frederick the Great and the story of the 'royal theme' which the King of Prussia 'deigned to play' on a pianoforte and...

The reason for the composition of this work is well-known: Bach's encounter with Frederick the Great and the story of the 'royal theme' which the King of Prussia 'deigned to play' on a pianoforte and...

The Dutch Karel van Steenhoven (*1958) has written several compositions for the renowned Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet which was co-founded by him. But he also wrote other works for the recorder: I...

In this trio, the composer Enjott Schneider again displays his inventiveness which is of course pushed to its limits due to the reference to the famous character Karl Valentin from Munich. By using mu...

These movements are distinguished by a high, bold leap of imagination…', judged a reviewer of the first edition of the Trio. But it is likely that Weber never performed his Trio in public - perhaps an...

With Granica, Enjott Schneider presents a work in which three instruments play alongside each other in a concertante manner on an equal basis. As in most of his pieces, he makes careful use of contemp...