Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Das Stück wurde von einem Kollegen Brett Deans bei den Berliner Philharmonikern, dem Bratscher Walter Küssner, in Auftrag gegeben als Teil eines CD-Projektes mit Werken für Bratsche solo 1998/99. Seit...

The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos. “While in the concertos for violin and piano, in the Double Concerto, and in my new sheng concerto I was seeking to...

Eine Neuerscheinung aus der Cello-Bibliothek: Pendereckis Konzertstück für drei Violoncelli und Orchester gibt es jetzt auch als übersichtlichen Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen - das große, dreisätzige...

This arrangement of the three-part collection published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as later pianoforte transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The harmonies, chromati...

Jörg Widmann composed this short piece in 2015 for the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. In this piece, the cello is used in an anything but classical manner: The hands hit the fingerboard, the fingers...

Kian Soltani played the world premiere of this solo work, which was commissioned by the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. In addition to scordatura effects, Widmann masterfully explores the sound worlds an...

It was a pleasure to respond to Sol Gabetta's invitation to contribute a piece to her "Songs Without Words" project with Bertrand Chamayou. The title is closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn Barth...

These four pieces were composed during 2018 and 2019. Each movement may be performed individually, as a sequence of two or three movements in any order, or as a set of all four movements in the order...

Many years ago I saw a sculpture of Anish Kapoor: in this sculpture there were two huge halved orbs hanging from two sides of the room. The halved orbs were dark purple blue, which was so dark that th...

Sergei Prokofiev´s Ballade for Cello and Piano Op. 15 was composed in 1912 while Prokofiev was still a student and marks an important milestone in his early work, having grown from an earlier violin s...

> An effective concertante piece > An addition to the more demanding repertoire > Practical page turns There are songbirds and birds whose bird calls are less than cantabile. In the garden of Rome's V...

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) left us a considerable output marked in particular by his researches into rhythm, his modes of limited transposition, his chord colours, his Roman catholic faith, and the...

Uraufführung: 1. Oktober 1983 Strasbourg (F) Festival Musica 1983 * Aurèle Nicolet, Flöte

Ami Maayani (1936 - 2019) zählte zu den prägenden Figuren des israelischen Musiklebens. Seine Kompositionen für Harfe gehören zum Standardrepertoire internationaler Wettbewerbe und erkunden die klangl...

The two parts of this 10-minute work can be performed together or separately.The first part, From Something Bigger, was written in 2008 on the occasion of a memorial concert for Karlheinz Stockhausen....

Selbstsicher und virtuos agiert die Flöte in den Solo-Stücken von Bernd Richard Deutsch. Dabei durchschreitet sie den gesamten Farbkreis der Klangpalette und bringt auch plötzliche Lichtwechsel und pa...

The composer calls My Sweet Latin Lover an 'ironic and tender homage to love - and its pitfalls. . . '. An 'unpleasant idyll that . . . intelligently continues Zappa's legacy' (Süddeutsche Zeitung). S...

Anmerkung des Herausgebers: Nachdem Osvald Gloijov seine Komposition 'Fish Tale' beendet hatte, nannte er sie ein 'Aquarell' - eine poetisch angemessene Beschreibung ihres glitschigen, flüssigen, dahi...

Monochromes comes from the composer's interest in colour, which has been associated with light since childhood. Light becomes musical light. It is the different sensations that the colours evoke in he...