Piano Excerpts

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...

For Viola and Orchestra (Piano reduction). Reduction part arranged by Henri Casadesus.

For Viola and Orchestra

The early classical concerto of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda that was written around 1775 is virtuoso showing the technical and tonal qualities of the instrument to their best advantage.

The title combines the words recitare and cantare, and thus this eloquent song embodies a renewed attempt to demonstrate the communicative power of music. The piece was written for Tabea Zimmermann an...

For his famous organ concerto BWV 593, Johann Sebastian Bach arranged Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Op. 3 No. 8 for two solo violins, strings and basso continuo from 'L'Estro Armonico'. This edition, in...

Dass Offenbach in seiner Jugend als Cellist Furore machte, dass man ihn sogar als 'Paganini des Cellos' bezeichnete, ist angesichts seiner epochalen Bedeutung als Bühnenkomponist in Vergessenheit gera...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimme

Boccherini, one of the greatest violoncellists of the 18th century, left numerous concertos for his favourite instrument. In the very first of these works, the personal style of the composer is unmist...

Padre Martini was musical director in Bologna and a respected teacher of composition with whom studied Johann Christian Bach among others.Martini's compositions, between baroque and rococo as to style...

As to style, the concerto discovered in Naples in 1986 is close to the well-known concerto in Bb major; it was most likely created at the same -time. The carefully edited publication offers the origin...

David Popper (1843-1913), a pupil of Julius Goltermann, was not only a much-travelled and successful concert cellist. Like many of his virtuoso fellow musicians, he left a number of compositions for h...

The popularity of his (first) violin concerto drove Max Bruch not just almost to despair - 'I cannot listen to this concerto any more', he wrote to his publisher - it also got in the way of the compos...

The content and formal structure of the two-movement Poem have been subjectively borrowed from the poem Steps [Stufen] by Hermann Hesse. The frequently appearing short motifs in both parts of the work...

Apart from his 'classic', the First Concerto, Camille Saint-Saëns composed other works for the violoncello, such as his 'Suite' Op. 16. Written in 1862, the work lives on the composer's examination of...

When writing his Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33, Camille Saint-Saëns created a 'classic' of violoncello literature. But the French musician even wrote other solo works for this instrument: a second...

The last of three Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra by the famous film composer combines in two movements soloistic virtuosity with the characteristic style of Mediterranean folk tunes - now als...

Immerse yourself in a world of profound spirituality and sonic intensity with Concerto No. 2 'Klātbūtne' (Presence). This captivating work captivates soloists and audiences alike with its meditative d...