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The piece for solo flute, which is both atmospheric and virtuosic, reflects the composer's experience of the sea during a stay on the island of Samos. It is excellently suited as an effective concert...

The tonal language of the flute sonata, and of Wanek's chamber music in general, follows a personal line, apart from any musical taste of the time. Formal coherence, brevity, discreetness and wit are...

In three movements entitled Nakts - Lidojums - Nakts, the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, born in 1946, uses onomatopoeic devices to describe a nocturnal flight of birds between dusk and dawn.

One of his last works, this virtuosic and highly demanding sonata is a must for all lovers of Françaix's sophisticated style.

This gently ironic and teasing work is also an extremely virtuosic hommage to his colleague and friend Aurèle Nicolet by the famous oboist Holliger. A compendium of contemporary avant-garde playing te...

Heinz Holliger, whose Sonate (in)solit(air)e (FTR 175) has been a standard work of contemporary flute literature for a long time, now presents two further compositions, with (é)cri(t) acting as a virt...

This 'Suite' is not one of my 'epic' instrumental concertos such as the concertos for cello, violin or oboe, but a substantially smaller-structured series of dance forms arranged into a suite. Sunken...

Igor Stravinsky's musical setting of the Slavonic fable of The Firebird, L'Oiseau de feu, is one of the pioneering orchestral works from the beginning of the 20th century. Reviews of the first perform...

Although the composer Thierry Pécou mostly does without experimental playing techniques, an exemplary modern harp sound emerges from among soft whispering sounds and massive chord clusters. Tone colou...

Das Harfenstück ist im April 1987, 25 Jahre nach meinem bisher einzigen Solostück für Harfe (Sequenzen über Joh. I, 32) entstanden. Während mir früher die nicht vollständige Verfügbarkeit der chromati...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)

The English translation fury - dream of the Gaelic original title shows the spectrum of this short character study which explores all the subtleties of modern horn playing.

The horn piece 'Air' requires a highly virtuosic technique, as indeed it should since it was composed in 2005 as the compulsory piece for the 54th International Music Competition of the ARD. At the sa...

In his Hamburg Concerto Ligeti, inspired by the tonal possibilities of the natural horn, explores alternatives to the well-tempered tonal system. In the orchestra piece he juxtaposes the solo horn wit...

'Point forms' was suggested by a group of five diagrams found in Wassily Kandinsky's book Point and Line and Plane. Many explanations of the geometric shapes, including Kandinsky's use of the words 's...

Aphorisms, a short nine-minute work that is a very useful addition to the repertoire for solo clarinet.

While his contemporary Paul Hindemith found new approaches to composition, Gál remained rooted in the Germanic tradition. The Sonata clearly follows in the footsteps of the great masters Brahms and Re...

A neo-impressionistic, virtuosic-cantabile atmospheric picture.

This Concerto was inspired and written in honour of Zoltán Kodály. Hartmann was inspired to write a piece of music characterised by a Hungarian flavour, as much in the cadenza-like free passages remin...

After several pieces dealing with flow and mastery of a large-scale form, in 1997 I became fascinated by the idea of Bruch pieces: reduction, abridgement, concentration. The instruments I had grown fo...

Contrechant is an extensive study on multiphonics (and other special sounds) which - with modifications in specific details - has been elaborated in versions for clarinet and bass clarinet. As an extr...

From 19th-century tradition, we know numerous examples of clarinet sonatas which were transcribed for viola. In the present edition Killmayer's piece, originally written for viola and piano, is arrang...