Schott Musik

Diese neue Sammlung dreistimmiger Arrangements der beliebtesten Lieder und Songs präsentiert eine Mischung aus unterschiedlichen musikalischen Genres von deutschen Volksliedern über Spass- und Kinderl...

The 25 solo pieces written by the renowned guitar teacher Dieter Kreidler are progressively arranged and are based in their compositional technique on the one hand on historical models by Baroque lute...

Classical guitarist, and author of the Schott Guitar Anthology series', Jens Franke presents a the first published edition of these double guitar fantasias on themes from 'La Traviata' (Verdi), and 'L...

I have never had much to do with the accordion in my career up until now, although this instrument is at home in many different forms across the world. It is a great phenomenon how air can be turned i...

The latest addition to the fast-growing 'Baroque Around the World' series is an Irish album, consisting of fifteen haunting melodies by the legendary 18th-century Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan. The...

With a title that makes reference to the band REM, Duddell's Nightswimming subtly gathers its own momentum and direction, moving away from the nocturne which is suggested in the opening. Despite - or...

Larcher's original work for tenor and prepared piano is shaped closely around the text of short poems and fragments collected by the composer. Despite its fragmentary nature a continuum is created, ea...

In The Asylum comprises three pieces: The Rung, The Potent Rug, and Wigs of Flanders. At times eerie and unsettling, at times playful, and at others almost violent, this eleven-minute work for piano t...

In a magazine with reports on mental institutions, Thomas Larcher came across interviews with patients: 'These sentences are of a strong inner power, yet do not claim to convey an overall picture of t...

The music of Colorful Sutra Banner is the recollection of the composer's journey to the Tibetan Plateau. The flutterling Colorful Sutra Banner are viewed as the most sacred symbol to the Tibetans, and...

'distant traces' comes close to the genre of the piano trio in an unusual way, because the violoncello has been replaced by a viola. Created for a concert in Hamburg in remembrance of his former compo...

The fact that the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) is in the shadow of Smetana and Dvorák is totally unjustified because he, too, was instrumental in the foundation of the Czech national sc...

The Piano Trio op. 59 was composed in 2008. The work was inspired by Joseph Haydn's Die Schoepfung [The Creation]. China boasts a vast number of old myths and legends. The first thought that came into...

'Musica arcaica No.1' is the first piece in a series of chamber music works in which Schneider as a composer examines music of other cultures (songs, dances among others). The old Cypriot shepherd's s...

The tremolo study 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' composed in 1896 is, without doubt, the most famous piece by the Spanish composer and guitarist Francisco Tárrega, bringing back memories of the fortified...

Theodorakis composed the Trio for violin, violoncello and piano in Athens during 1946-47. He had just completed his studies in composition at the Athens Conservatory and was preparing himself for his...

The American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) is rather unknown in Germany although he had his artistic roots there for he was trained as a pianist in Paris, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and...

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with piano-accompanied chamber music for strings all her life. Max Reger valued her 'extraordinary compositional...

The pianist and composer Alexander Rosenblatt (*1956) from Moscow loves to cross frontiers, trying to overcome in his piano and chamber music works the rigid barriers between classical and jazz music....