Sikorski Musikverlag

Mikrooper in 7 Szenen für Bariton und Violoncello (mit 'Begleitung' - durch den Sänger - von Claves, Campanelli, Triangel und Gitarre) - BarSolo, Vc (ad lib: Clv, Tri, Git)

Die Bezeichnung 'Lieder ohne Worte', die Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy für seine berühmte Sammlung von überwiegend gesanglichen Klavierstücken wählte, ist ausserordentlich populär geworden. Sie löste ba...

This 'Trio Ballad' begins with constantly insistent, rapid sextuplets. The clarinet is a kind of an airhead (of all trades) and the viola is a type of demon. The piano provides a foundation for the ot...

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...