Sheet Music for Instruments

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...

Abdullah Ibrahim aka 'Dollar Brand' is one of the true jazz greats. His cycle 'African Songs' celebrates the unmistakable atmosphere and cheerfulness of African music. This arrangement for cello and p...

Abdullah Ibrahim aka 'Dollar Brand' is one of the true jazz greats. His cycle 'African Songs' celebrates the unmistakable atmosphere and cheerfulness of African music. This arrangement for cello and p...

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...

Take Seven is a tried and trusted showpiece with audience appeal. The title Take Seven is of course a play on Paul Desmond's famous Take Five and its recording by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. As there, t...

Zum 75. Geburtstag (2000) hatte ich Pierre Boulez ein feuillet d'album nur für Solostimme auf das Gedicht monde des grossartigen Dichters Philippe Jaccottet geschickt, der mit Pierre Boulez den gleich...

Virtuoser Jazz in klassischer Form: Nikolai Kapustin (geb. 1937) ist ein exzellenter Jazz-Pianist, Arrangeur und Komponist. Das Stück Elegy entstand im Jahr 1999 zusammen mit zwei weiteren Werken für...

Virtuoser Jazz in klassischer Form: Nikolai Kapustin (geb. 1937) ist ein exzellenter Jazz-Pianist, Arrangeur und Komponist. Das Stück Elegy entstand im Jahr 1999 zusammen mit zwei weiteren Werken für...

Friction, Pressure, Impact comprises three movements, each of which focuses on the question of musical metabolism in a different way. The first movement, Friction, has a moderately fast metabolism, wo...