Piano Excerpts

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

'Zauberei, Magie, Mythen, Legenden, dies sind die großen Themen barocker Opern - Ausdruck der Sehnsucht jener Zeit, sich durch die Illusion der Oper dem Phantastischen hingeben zu können. Diese unverk...

This work, composed in 1990 at the suggestion of the violinist Saschko Gawriloff, is in the tradition of great virtuoso violin concertos. Originally consisting of three movements, the work was revised...

Pietro Nardini was the most important pupil of Tartini regarding both violin playing and composition. Like his teacher, he attached special significance to the beauty of sound and the -suitability for...

It is elegance and brilliance that characterise this work by the violin master whose French form type takes up the essential music tendencies of that time coming from Mannheim, Paris and Italy.

The Spiritual Concerto for violin and string orchestra by Helmut W. May has everything that is necessary to become a repertory piece for -young violin soloists: of medium difficulty, rewarding, despit...

The Violin Concerto, written in 1928, is one of Egk's most significant instrumental works. It is indicative of the contemporary climate of innovation as reflected in the development of new genres for...

It is (not only) due to its six movements that the flute concerto by the American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Ned Rorem, who was once chosen by Time Magazine as the 'world's best art song compo...

By Lowell Liebermann. For Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet (in Bb), Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon, English Horn, Horn, Trumpet, Tenor, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Co...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Carl Maria von Weber hat seine Berühmtheit vor allem dem Freischütz zu verdanken, dessen beispielloser Erfolg das übrige Schaffen des Komponisten mehr und mehr in Vergessenheit geraten ließ, obwohl no...

Weber was quite critical of the practice of arranging that had widely spread in the early 19th century. In his novel 'Tonkünstlers Leben' he mocked at far too overzealous contemporaries with fictitiou...

Die dreißigminütige Komposition exponiert ein musikalisches Thema, dessen wildwuchernde Veränderungen in drei Sätze gefasst sind, die einigen der berühmten acht Triagramme des 'I GING' (des Buches der...