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Under the title of 'Fantasies', this edition presents the four pieces Las brisas, Seven Sisters Ballade, Romance and Prelude à Géométrie Variable from the years 1996 to 2013.As always with works by Em...

Mit seinem Werk für Klavier solo stellt Thierry Pécou die Vitalität der Musik Kubas dar: polyphone Rhythmen, schnelle Tempi und komplexe Akkordfolgen versprühen die ausgelassene karibische Lebensfreud...

The title has been taken from a review of Robert Schumann of the then newly published Préludes Op. 28. According to this reference, Stefan Heucke's Préludes are tributes to the three great piano compo...

Whirling into the unborn and the undying. (Xuntian He)

Faz?l Say composed this Cadenza on Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 as early as 2001. Meanwhile, this early work by the Turkish composer and pianist has become part of the repertoire of international...

The President of the German Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, asked me to compose a piano work which should relate to the German anthem and was to be performed for the first time on the occasion of his reti...

Kapustins 10 Bagatellen aus dem Jahre 1991 sind kleine unbeschwerte Klavierstücke im Jazz-Kolorit mit hohem technischem Anspruch. Der Zyklus wurde komplett vom Komponisten selbst und von Masahiro Kawa...

In these 10 inventions Kapustin experiments with polyphonic typesetting techniques, and extended tonality up to twelve-tone music. For pianists who are looking for works somewhere between modern and j...

Gefürchtet, geachtet und geliebt. Prüfstein, Grenzerfahrung und Versuchung. Eines der großen, bis heute geheimnisvollsten Werke der Musikgeschichte ist die Chaconne von Johann Sebastian Bach, ein Werk...

Das Capriccio op. 146 ist Nikolai Kapustins letztes vierhändiges Klavierwerk. Er schrieb es für das Duo „piaNA“ im Jahr 2012. Erstmals wird es nun in einer Notenausgabe veröffentlicht.

Der Titel von Hillis Komposition beschreibt das Zusammenspiel eines Zahnrades mit einer Zahnstange. Hilli übersetzt das Ineinandergreifen und die kontinuierliche Bewegung in eine metallische und masch...

Pianist Lisa Moore has an extraordinary charisma and energy at her instrument, with a kind of musical laser focus that I find tremendously inspiring. I wanted to write her a set of pieces that would p...

Peteris Vask's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, composed in 1978, is an example of the tragedy of past eras and a small-scale requiem for the hope of people of all ages. The title borrowed from Mozart is here...

This 'Autumn Music' allows the performer great latitude within the notated music. It puts great demands on both the technique and the creativity of the pianist. The sound spectrum ranges from soft pia...

The three pieces in this collection are characteristic examples of contemporary piano writing and playing techniques, partly in traditional, partly in space notation. The first piece juxtaposes treble...

Das musikalische Gegensatzpaar Freude und Trauer hat seine Verbindung durch die Verwendung der beiden Intervalle Sekunde und Septe. Damals realisierte ich musikalische Einfälle gerne zusammen mit eine...

'Hämmerklavier' is a full-length cyclical work. The composer tries casting off the straight-jacket of hide-bound musical traditions, sending the listener on a voyage of discovery and liberation. The '...

'Hämmerklavier' is a full-length cyclical work. The composer tries casting off the straight-jacket of hide-bound musical traditions, sending the listener on a voyage of discovery and liberation. The '...

With their wide range of differing moods these pieces concentrate less on the typical rhythm of the Tango but convey something of the demonic forces inherent in this dance. Unusual playing techniques...

Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: 'We should let ourselves be cradled As if o...