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Tinnitus-Trio - Scene with Beethoven' deals in a subtle and parodistic manner with the question as to how Beethoven wrote his late works despite his deafness. Legend has it that he had the legs of his...

Although the organ clearly represents the centre of the musical action in Jean Guillou's Concerto No. 5 'Le Roi Arthur', the accompanying brass quintet has an important role. Like the noble knights at...

Missa brevis for mixed choir and eight wind instruments Op. 5 was created in 1951 and premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music the following year. The Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie...

Missa brevis for mixed choir and eight wind instruments Op. 5 was created in 1951 and premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music the following year. The Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

Hakim's Four Chorale Preludes include rather simple settings of the following choral melodies used in Bach's Leipzig Chorals: No. 1 Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott - melody in the soprano, with a lig...

In commissioning this work, Hans-Georg Vleugels invited me to pay tribute to history's legendary churches, such as the Hagia Sofia of Istanbul and the Schlosskirche of Chemnitz. The Schlosskirche, a f...

Ligeti's two-act opera in four scenes, 'Le Grand Macabre', is intense, brilliant music theatre between parody and grave seriousness, between folly and wisdom. His one and only opera, which is exceptio...

In the subtitle, the composer calls the piece 'Three looks into the infinity of time'. Tris skatieni is an extraordinary work in every respect. It has no fixed instrumentation, the instruments can be...

Is it possible to reduce large opera scores to scores for a small ensemble which even includes a guitar? If you let yourself in for it, you will be amply rewarded: beautiful melodies, magnificent inte...

Even in the days of Mozart, musicians liked to experiment with instrumental orchestration. Siegfried Schwab used this approach to arrange the popular Mozart trio, consisting of the movements Allegro -...

Naji Hakim wrote this virtuoso piece for the Breda International Organ Competition which takes place in the Netherlands in 2012. In the first bars, the piece already captivates the audience with brill...

Mädchenchor, Gemeinde ad lib. , Bläser ad lib. und Orgel Die Sätze dieser Missa entstanden im Verlauf mehrerer Jahre und wurden für den Mädchenchor am Essener Dom komponiert. Ihren Titel bezieht die M...

The movements of 'Missa di Sant' Anna' were composed over the course of several years, each one for the 'Mädchenchor am Essener Dom' (girls' choir of the Cathedral of Essen). The title of the Mass is...

The title of the piece refers to the Agama, a fundamental holy scripture of early Buddhism. The young composer says about it: 'The basic ideas of these writings were a source of my inspiration. The co...

It was through piano and chamber music that Schubert wanted to pave the way for himself toward 'the great symphony' after 1820. One of these works is the Sonata for piano duet D 812 in C major which h...

'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost...

Thierry Pécou's demanding Sextet for piano and wind quintet can be played by students and professional ensembles alike.The composer got his inspiration to write this piece from listening to a gamelan...

'Esquisses Persanes' (Persian Sketches) consists of the two movements 'Niya Yesh' (gnosis) and 'Raqs' (dance) which are based completely on the Persian scale C, D flat, E, F, G flat, A flat, B and the...

Two instruments - sometimes two violins, sometimes violin and double-bass or clarinet and bassoon - always take the lead as a duo in the ensemble which is arranged around the audience. In the love-son...