Schott Musik

Skilfully selected encore pieces add a special touch to a concert. No matter whether virtuoso masterpieces or reflective melodies: both can help to achieve perfect harmony in a successful concert. The...

À son ami Alexandre Wierzbilowicz

Well-known and generally popular - that's what the Happy Birthday meals served by Claus-Dieter Ludwig are. Meanwhile, they are available for various instrumentations (for piano solo and piano duet, fo...

Well-known and generally popular - that's what the Happy Birthday meals served by Claus-Dieter Ludwig are. Meanwhile, they are available for various instrumentations (for piano solo and piano duet, fo...

The 'Song of Songs' or 'Song of Solomon' addressed to Sulamith and ascribed to Solomon is one of the most mysterious texts of the Bible. If the character of Solomon itself is enigmatic, the character...

Only two years after composing his three-movement Cello Sonata in 1919, Paul Hindemith undertook a comprehensive revision of the work. Abandoning the two outer movements, he created a new version base...

Songs Without Words' - that's what Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) called his lyrical piano pieces, the romantic miniatures in which the composer wanted to 'sing' on the keyboard instrument. W...

The melodies from George Gershwin's (1898-1937) musicals, from 'Porgy and Bess', from orchestral pieces like 'Rhapsody in Blue' or 'An American in Paris', we all know them! But the career of the young...

Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...

Wolfgang Köhler is professor of piano at the Department of Jazz and Popular Music of the Berlin Academy of Music. His Romance for violoncello (or viola) and piano is a 'love song without words' with r...

Wolfgang Köhler, professor of jazz piano at the Berlin Jazz Institute, writes music in the border area between classical, jazz and contemporary music. His 'Variations' for cello and piano are cross-ov...