Advanced Sheet Music from Schott Musik

This collection is more than just a continuation of volume 1 (4 Lieder ohne Worte = AVV 131), pieces from both volumes can be mixed and played in different running order. The intermezzi are in irregul...

The solo part in this edition contains the annotations made for the first performance with the soloist Anne Sophie Mutter.

Strongly influenced by Russian Impressionism this concerto can also be performed with a small string ensemble. A recent recording by the young Russian virtuoso Maxim Vengerow with conductor Mstislav R...

Henri Dutilleux was born in Angers, France, in 1916. This ten-minute Nocturne in one movement was first performed in London by Anne-Sophie Mutter. The demanding solo part has closely alternating virtu...

Year of composition: 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...

Whilst Stravinsky himself did not know several of the people whom he was commissioned to write memorials for, in this case it seems Stravinsky did have a connection to Onnou, as the Pro Arte Quartet h...

The opulent music of this masterpiece by Paul Hindemith is perfectly suitable for an organ version. Although the organ is one of the few instruments never played by Hindemith, the three sonatas and tw...

Zum 70. Geburtstag von Dieter Schnebel im März 2000 erschienen zeitgleich die Werke 'Zwischenfugen' (ED8193) und 'Toccata mit Fugen' (ED8630), die jedoch im Abstand von 10 Jahren komponiert worden sin...

A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were, Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.E...

The piece is dedicated to John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, who commissioned it with funds made available by South West Arts.It makes use of the saxophone's ability to play long expressive m...

Raaf Hekkema, a Dutch saxophone virtuoso, has arranged the famous 24 Capricci Op. 1 by Niccolò Paganini for solo saxophone - for either soprano or alto saxophone depending on the register. For the CD...

A lamentation which speaks for itself: the sadness, the anger, the mourning and finally the resignation. This composition was written on request of, and in close collaboration with saxophonist Femke I...

Jörg Widmann, an internationally sought-after soloist and professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, displays the exquisite refinement of contemporary clarinet sound in 'Fünf Bruchstücke'...

Over the years, the saxophone quartet genre had been rather foreign to me – until I heard the Kebyart Ensemble. The homogeneity and virtuosity of the sound of these four young Catalan saxophonists mad...

Orchestra and obbligato saxophone

Nancarrow's music for player piano with acrobatic complexity that sounds hardly performable has been known for more than four decades. The traditional notation is replaced by the accurate manual punch...

With his 5 Etudes in Different Intervals op. 68, composed in 1992, Kapustin presents technically very demanding exercises based around different intervals. They have been recorded for CD by Marc-André...

The 24 Soul Etudes constitute a kaleidoscope of soulful landscapes nested in human soul's depth. These pieces are destined for pianists yearning to express their utter sensitivity and poetry in perfec...