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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...

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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...

The composer Enjott Schneider moves very successfully between music for film and television, on the one hand, and opera, symphony and chamber music, on the other hand. When writing this piece, he was...

Mustonen is one of the composing piano virtuosos of the young generation. What is remarkable in his works is that he does not give priority to 'his instrument'. He has composed pieces for strings, son...

Spielmusik für 3 Violinen zur solistischen und chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden

Vytautas Laurusas (*1930) studied at the State Conservatoire of Music; since 1994 he has been a professor there. Vocal works and chamber music form the core of his output as a composer. In his works h...

The arrangements of this collection document an increasing distance of the arranger from the original. Ballade IV and Ballade XXVI play with real pitches and the transfer into the weightlessness of na...

Many violists know Garth Knox as author of Viola Spaces (ED 20520), the groundbreaking compendium of modern playing techniques on the viola. In this edition, he applies them to variations on the famou...