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It is not only with regard to the instrumentation that the string quintet Sonanzen (a play on the words 'consonance' and 'dissonance') follows the famous example of Schubert, and even Wagner's Tristan...

Penderecki's demanding and thrilling String Quartet No. 3 is now available in a version with double-bass. The instruments are of equal importance, the performers have to master both brilliant virtuoso...

2 Trompeten (1. Trompete (C)/Piccolo-Trompete (B), 2. Trompete (C)/Cornet oder Flügelhorn (B), Horn, Posaune, Tuba oder Bass-Posaune

Originally, Heinz Holliger wrote this humorous, yet demanding study not as an independent showpiece or encore, but as a component of his Concerto für Orchester with the meaningful subtitle 'con soli p...

The image of a landscape in April, freed from winter's hold, with its mixture of barrenness and still dull colours, characterises the basic tone of this piece. Melodic elements and fast virtuoso figur...

In these miniatures the composer revised already existing works for the Kusatsu International Music Festival 2008 in Japan where he has got a massive legion of fans. The first movement is played by ba...

Benjamin Schweitzer presents his first work for this combination. Willing to try out something new, he adds to the typical character of the wind instruments the sound of the piano. The work is made up...

This is the first of two works by the successful Latvian composer for this instrumentation. It was written in 1977 and shows his early compositional style: while freely notated in the beginning, impro...

Flöte, Oboe (Englischhorn), Klarinette, Fagott und Horn

Flöte, Oboe (Englischhorn), Klarinette, Fagott und Horn

Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Bassklarinette, Fagott und Horn

These solo pieces were written as a continuation of the 'Neuzeitliche Übungsstücke' (ED4797). They can therefore serve as etudes, but were also written with concert performances in mind.

Soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorder alternately

The title hidden tracks is ambiguous. First of all, the piece is almost throughout imagined as 'multi-track', with layers (in the sense of sound tracks) that partly overlay each other, partly suddenly...

A psychoanalytical as well as emotional interpretation of events from ancient greek mythology. Improvisatory in character these pieces explore contemporary playing techniques. (German text).

The use of this popular instrument adds an intriguing and fascinating dimension to these movements taken from a collection of early piano pieces.

The composer's description: 'Moon time is dream time. Moon time is time for sleep-walking, for dancing on a tight-rope, nearly falling. Music is everywhere: in play and dance, soaring, flowing, losing...

Dissatisfied with computerized sounds the composer experiments exhaustively with the various techniques of playing two recorders simultaneously and requires advanced breathing abilities and proficienc...

'During the rehearsals for Schlussgesang for viola and orchestra performed at the 1997 Aldeburgh Festival, I conceived of the title of this present composition, with its internal rhyme, as an appropri...

Sketched in Australia in 1981 at a time when Gilbert was studying Australian birdsong-choruses, the completion of Dawnfaring's mixture of freely and conventionally notated material was delayed until 1...

Mark Anthony Turnage, who celebrates his 50th birthday this summer, composed On Opened Ground for one of the world's most celebrated viola soloists, Yuri Bashmet, and the Cleveland Orchestra. The titl...