Piano Excerpts

Janáceks Oper 'Osud' ist ein außerordentliches Beispiel für die schöpferische Kühnheit des Komponisten und bietet anspruchsvolle dramaturgische Herausforderungen. Hauptquelle für die Neuedition von Ji...

Flugelhorn and Wind Ensemble or Piano Exact instrumentation: wind ensemble: 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 3 clarinets (Bb), bass-clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets (C), 3 trombones, piano (celesta), 2 per...

Wolfgang Jacobi (1894-1972) was born in Bergen, near Rügen, and studied at the academy of music in Berlin. From 1936 Jacobi lived in Munich, where he continued to devote himself to his work as a compo...

The work is divided into three self-contained groups of two to three pieces each, and reflects the composer's pleasure in writing an English style of music by evoking, in this case, the forms of song...

Silhouette of a song' or 'shadow of the sound' may seem at first glance to be a somewhat whimsical and contradictory title, but it is meant to describe a very real psychological experience. As human b...

The Poème for viola and string orchestra (or piano) op. 84, is dedicated to Michael Murray-Robertson. The one-movement work begins with an ostinato which builds with a large crescendo. The instrumenta...

Ivan Rezác composed this piece to mark the 150th birthday of Robert Schumann in 1960. The title derives from the political events happening in the Czech Republic at that time: Just as memorials to for...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimme

In the domain of concerted music, the first representative work of Martinu is his Concertino for Violoncello. The Concertino arose at the beginning of the Paris years of the composer's production and...

Clarinet and chamber orchestra or wind ensemble or piano ''Silhouette of a song'' or ''shadow of the sound'' may seem at first glance to be a somewhat whimsical and contradictory title, but it is mea...

The sense of longing, characteristic of every elegy, is really made for the tonal world of the clarinet. In this attractive concert piece, however, it is 'loaded with barbed hooks', as the composer on...