Schott Musik

Inevitable Rifts for string quintet, like Schubert's Quintet in C, D.956, adds an extra cello to the string quartet. This undoubtedly makes for a richer sound, but what I wanted to explore was the ten...

Gaetano Brunetti, who was born in Italy, probably in Fano, in 1744 and died in Madrid in 1798, was among the most progressive composers of his time. He joined the court of Madrid early on and under Ki...

In 1771, at the same time, two composers in Madrid, Luigi Boccherini and Gaetano Brunetti 'discovered' and established the string quintet as a new musical genre. While the works of Boccherini are perf...

The String Quartet in G minor by Anton Wranitzky (1761-1820) is one of the great works that combine stylistic devices developed by the turn of the century, such as the development of the sonata form b...

Florian Leopold Gaßmann's (1729-1774) Op. 2, 'Sei quintetti, Dilatamenti, Notturni o sia Serenate Per Violino o Flauto, Violino Secondo, Due Viole e Baßso ...' belongs among the earliest quintets, alo...

It is not only with regard to the instrumentation that the string quintet Sonanzen (a play on the words 'consonance' and 'dissonance') follows the famous example of Schubert, and even Wagner's Tristan...

It was in Madrid in 1771 that two composers simultaneously 'discovered' and invented the string quartet as new musical genre: Luigi Boccherini and Gaetano Brunetti. The string quartets by the Italian...

Penderecki's demanding and thrilling String Quartet No. 3 is now available in a version with double-bass. The instruments are of equal importance, the performers have to master both brilliant virtuoso...

Stimmensatz - Bläserquintett

The title Still Life, whilst being a term borrowed from painting, refers to the two temporal states of the piece, status and motion, which are juxtaposed and superimposed throughout.The static section...

This arrangement of the well-known song cycle by Berlioz was commissioned by a Dutch ensemble in 2008. The arranger Henk de Vlieger made it his business to give expression to the intimate character of...

Horn, 2 Trompeten, Posaune und Tenortuba