This piece is useful as an only moderately difficult introduction to Minimalism. Starting with a brief phrase, violin and piano develop a static dialogue.
'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...
Rota developed this quite spectacular, short chamber music work from the music he composed for the film 'Amanti senza amore (1947). The piece has been recorded for Teldec by Gidon Kremer And Oleg Mais...
The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)
This piece by the young Chinese composer Jing Zhou is based on different forms of the Chinese popular opera, the Peking opera. It breathes the atmosphere and the spirit of traditional Chinese music an...
Naji Hakim, born in Beirut in 1955, is counted among the most important of present-day organists and organ composers. He studied organ with Jean Langlais at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Mus...
Since the last movement of this piece, which is perhaps the most beautiful of Hindemith's pieces, is a chorale, a version for string instrument plus organ is the obvious work to publish. Thus, 'Trauer...
Das kleine Irgendwas is a short humorous and surrealist story written by the six-year-old daughter of Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Heinz Holliger made it into an adorable virtuoso encore piece for violin...
The publication of a collection of 12 concertos for one to four solo violins by Antonio Vivaldi in Amsterdam in 1711 laid the foundations for the fame of the Italian composer in the whole of Europe. T...
Saint-Saëns added considerably to the violin repertoire: including two sonatas, three concertos and a number of small works with piano or orchestral accompaniment. That was partly as a result of his f...
The Sicilienne goes back to a commission concerning an unfinished incidental music of Molière's 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'. Only after its incorporation into another incidental music (Pelléas et Mélis...
Neuheit der Formen, ausgesuchte Modulationen, eigentümliche Klangfarben, den Einsatz völlig unerwarteter Rhythmen, lobte Camille Saint-Saëns das Erstlingswerk eines jungen Kollegen und fuhr fort: "Übe...
Born in the village of Brand in the Upper Palatinate, Max Reger (1873 1916) was taught by the renowned music theoretician Hugo Riemann. After finishing his studies and working as a freelance performer...
As is the case with 'Trauermusik', there now exists an organ version of its sister work. Heribert Breuer, choir director and professor in Berlin, arranged the score for the organ, thus opening up furt...
These variations are among the most little-known works by Carl Maria von Weber. They are especially charming due to the harmonic ambiguity, primarily found in the piano accompaniment, that Weber weave...
When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André von Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as larg...
When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André from Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as lar...
Year of composition: 2014
Kompositionsjahr: 2014
'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...
Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...
In December 2015, Peter Eötvös composed his short work for violin solo which plays with hearing, perceiving and responding to musical structures. Inspired by a line from James Joyce's Ulysses, there i...
This edition of the Violin Concerto in A minor is tailored to today's common style of violin playing as well as historically informed performance practice. Two violin parts are arranged, according to...
