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In his "Herbstblatt" Heinz Holliger traces the biography of the composer Gideon Klein, who was murdered in the Auschwitz-Fürstenau concentration camp. As a shadow of memory, Holliger intersperses quot...

The Bridges of Newcastle by Garth Knox was composed for the 14th Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and is an imaginary musical cruise down the Tyne river on a viola, passing under each of...

Of the five works that Johanna Senfter wrote for viola and piano, the Variations op. 94, completed at the beginning of the 1940s, are certainly her most sophisticated composition in terms of harmony a...

What is it like to become a stranger to yourself? A loss of memory due to traumatic experiences or dementia is addressed in a fascinating way in this composition, with the resonating strings of the vi...

It was a pleasure to respond to Sol Gabetta's invitation to contribute a piece to her "Songs Without Words" project with Bertrand Chamayou. The title is closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn Barth...

These four pieces were composed during 2018 and 2019. Each movement may be performed individually, as a sequence of two or three movements in any order, or as a set of all four movements in the order...

Many years ago I saw a sculpture of Anish Kapoor: in this sculpture there were two huge halved orbs hanging from two sides of the room. The halved orbs were dark purple blue, which was so dark that th...

The idea of a compound instrument can be traced back to my works for recorded and live soloists from around 1988. In Afatsim, The Crossroads and the String Quartet, disparate instruments become a sing...

In Nelly Sachs' poem, the butterfly stands as a traditional symbol of transience and hope for the beauty of the afterlife. The setting traces the melancholic and yet light mood in finely chiselled mel...

When you come to a river... place your hand into its belly, feel the energy, stroke its power, says the poem by American author Laura Tohe, who grew up in the Navajo tradition. Thierry Péocu accompani...

There is a sense of unease in the imagined landscape of John Casken’s Misted Land, as familiar shapes take on a new and sometimes grotesque and frightening appearance. Fragments of folk-like melodies...

The text for my work Taivaanvalot is composed of fragments of a story appearing in the Kalevala – a collection of Finnish heroic folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884). As much of it is sim...

Nikolai Kapustins Divertissement op. 126 für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier stammt aus dem Jahr 2005. Das viersätzige Werk liegt nun erstmals in einer Notenausgabe vor.

Das Divertissement op. 91 für 2 Flöten, Violoncello und Klavier komponierte Nikolai Kapustin im Jahr 1998. Er nahm es selbst mit Alexander Korneev (Flöte), Marina Rubinstein (Flöte) und Alexander Zago...

In his piano quintet, Hilli imagines an image of a palace. A jewel that shines brightly, a symbol of wealth and excellence. Celestial beauty that is captivating yet unattainable. A fine musical protra...

Kapustin combines his flair for swinging melodies and improvised harmonies in this work. Intrada and Finale is a welcome challenge for sextet formations, but enchants musicians and audience with its l...