Schott Musik

Commissioned for the renowned Florestan Trio in 2009 and performed them in the UK, France and Germany, Huw Watkins' Piano Trio is a formidable addition to the chamber music repertoire. As an establish...

The music's air of simplicity clearly stands for gifted craft, from the recurring harp arpeggios of the fist movement to the rhythmic drive of the second and the barefaced major chord that ended the t...

Joe Duddell's music is not bound to any one genre: he has taken on projects with dubstep pioneers, like Nero, alongside commissions for concertos. His ethereal work for solo organ contrasts intricate...

Tippett's short chamber work is finally available as part of the Edition Schott series. 'Prelude, Recitative and Aria' is an arrangement of Hermes' Aria 'O Divine Music' from the composer's 1962 opera...

Bryars' Two Love Songs are stunning works for vocal trio or three-part female choir. Setting two of Petrarca's lyric poems of profound and idealised love, the words and music complement each other in...

Written by double bass player Gavin Bryars, this arrangement is one of a series of works for double bass ensemble. Originally scored for viola, cello, double bass and electric guitar, Epilogue from Wo...

It Never Rains is a short piece written in the summer of 2010 that was commissioned by Jim Fox for the Californian label Cold Blue Music and is dedicated to them. The title comes from two sources: the...

Largo Siciliano is a slow dance movement in a simple metre comprising a sequence of variations, separated by a refrain; a single idea is continually reworked and recast. This idea, or little siciliano...

The intense and surreal musical narrative so apparent in Gerald Barry's hugely successful opera The Importance of Being Earnest returns in a new guise for his latest vocal work Jabberwocky. Setting Le...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

Maxwell Davies' beguiling Oboe Quartet was written for longstanding collaborators the Hebrides Ensemble and dedicated to the eminent composer and conductor Oliver Knussen on his 60th birthday. Max com...

Written for the magnificent organ of Saint Sulpice in Paris, this virtuosic work is both explorative and passionate. Watkins utilises the full tessitural and dynamic range of the instrument to create...

Overture was written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Countess of Munster Trust at Glyndebourne

English Folk Tunes for Ukulele presents a collection of 37 pieces for solo fingerstyle ukulele playing. Drawn from the rich tradition of English folk music with tunes covering a range of styles, inclu...

Für 2 Klarinetten, Marimbaphon, Klavier, Viola und Violoncello.

Gavin Bryars' haunting soundworld is ever present in this trio for bass clarinet, electric guitar and cello. The fusion of electric and acoustic in a bass-dominated tessitura creates a sombre elegy th...

No. 42 (In the Alps) could perhaps best be described as a melodrama. It combines many of the subjects that fascinate me: the relationship of text narrative and musical narrative, the history of opera,...

Although this piece is short, it includes several Barry hallmarks - fierce ostinato passages and contrasting instrumental sections marked by strong accents. Take note of the composer's instruction: Ha...

A wonderful work from the rich repertoire for string quartet with solo clarinet, Divertimento is full of folk, jazz and neoclassical influences. The piece was sketched on a train journey in 1926 and i...