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'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...

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...

Settings of medieval texts that feature singable and accessible straight-lined vocal movements suitable for both smaller and larger SATB choirs.

During his time as Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas. Lullay, My Child, and Weep No More was the first in this series, wr...

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...

Nearly Distant is a bravura romp for saxophone quartet from one of Britain's leading composers.

These six character pieces come from Ligeti's famous piano cycle 'Musica ricercata'. Now wild, now cheerful, now contemplative, now excited - each of these miniatures is an unmistakable gem.The minima...

I got the idea of writing this piece during a rehearsal with Klaus Michael Grüber I saw in Berlin. Three actors were rehearsing a scene of Kleist. At the end, Grüber said: '… now once again in a diffe...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

after the Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio

'We have to make music here the whole day long!' Such was the enthusiastic response of Paul Hindemith when he heard the school orchestra of Plön. 'We start with an aubade blown from the tower, then we...

For the music festival at the 'Staatliche Bildungsanstalt' in Plön on 20 June 1932, Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) composed his 'Plöner Musiktag'. The work consists of 'Morgenmusik', 'Tafelmusik', a canta...

From soft cantilenas to bird-like multiphonic twittering, Heinz Holliger transfers the mood of the underlying texts into an instrumental dialogue. An intriguing addition to the contemporary oboe reper...