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Die 'Studies for player piano' des 1912 geborenen Amerikaners Conlon Nancarrow beweisen auf ebenso spielerische wie virtuose Art, dass der Einsatz eines mechanischen Klaviers weder zur Automatisierung...

Ligeti's piano études are some of the most splendid works ever composed for this instrument. Every ambitious player is eventually going to examine these milestones of contemporary music literature. Th...

A musical finger exercise, written in a train between Zurich and Basel and referring to 'Tinian' from Hölderlin's 'Hesperische Gesänge' on the speculative level of Holliger's chamber music.The first v...

'Mazltov!' is a collection of Jewish-American wedding music from the repertoire of the clarinettist Dave Tarras, probably the most famous and highly rated exponent of Klezmer in the 20th century. Klez...

Keith Wilson, who was from time to time a pupil of Hindemith's at Yale University, arranged the richly colou-red original score of Symphonic Metamorphosis for large wind band using the American combin...

This piece, previously considered lost since its first performance, was described thus in reviews of that concert: ... The composition is modern and the humour appears to be that of the composer himse...

Camillo Sivori galt zu seiner Zeit als Wunderkind. Er begann das Geigenspiel bereits im Alter von 2 Jahren. Später wurde er der einzige Schüler von Niccolò Paganini. Seine 12 Etude-Caprices für Violin...

Often in a humoristic manner and always with musical expression in focus, these eight pieces are perfect for every violinist to practice playing techniques and to enhance the enthusiasm to experiment...

The Austrian violinist and composer Jakob Dont (1815-1888) very early became a member of the Vienna Hofburg Theatre, later of the Court Chapel. Although he had made a name for himself as a soloist, he...

Widmann's 'Études' for solo violin are in the tradition of the caprices by Paganini and the piano studies by Chopin, Liszt and Ligeti: artistically autonomous concertante pieces on a specific technica...

This work was originally written for brass band (see there). At the composer's request, his former pupil Marcel Wengler wrote an arrangement for Symphonie wind band, which is equal to the original in...

Contrechant is an extensive study of multiphonic sounds (and other special playing techniques), which - with modifications in some specific details - has been elaborated into versions for clarinet and...

This challenging slow duet for two bass clarinets in Bb combines expressive melodic writing, abrupt meter changes, and extreme dynamics that give this short composition an agitated and volatile charac...

The work was written for the famous Dutch bass clarinettist Henri Bok. It consists of six movements merging into one another, offering the player all possibilities to present the wide tonal range of t...

Written as a compulsory piece for this year's international Commande du Concours international de timbales de Lyon, Holliger explores all sound and pitch combinations that can be realized by a player...

A 12-minute composition in two parts: The first is played by three piccolos, the second by three different flutes. The instrument is treated like a windpipe - the production of raw and unsophisticated...

In the Meditation a passacaglia is built on the base of twelve different clusters in the piano; the series begins in the third bar after a short introduction, is completely repeated three times, and c...