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Instrumentation: Ob, Klar, Hn, Fag, Klav, V, Va, Vc, Kb/17 minutes Premiere on June 8, 1970 in Munich, "Musik unserer Zeit" (Hochschule für Musik)

World premiere on August 27, 2006 in Lucerne, Lucerne Festival: Hae-Sun Kang (violin), Christophe Desjardins (viola) and Eric-Maria Couturier (violoncello)

The String Trio by the Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian has been premiered in 2009 at Dilijan Chamber Music Series, Glendale, California. 'Mansurian's new trio is in three short movements. In the fi...

Intezar, which means waiting in the Urdu language (spoken in India and Pakistan), is a quiet, one-movement work based on a series of blues-like incantations.

Apart from the collection of 'Classical Manuscripts' composed by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and passed off by him as transcriptions of movements by old masters, the violonist published original works...

The only work still known today by Noack, 'Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade' [Parade of the Brownies] Op. 5 was called a 'character piece' by the composer himself, and this 'marche en miniature' conveys w...

Originally composed for piano solo, Rubinstein's 'Melody' Op. 3/1 is the best-known work written by the Russian composer. Thanks to the simple, yet tender melody and its expressive harmony, the name o...

The fact that the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) is in the shadow of Smetana and Dvorák is totally unjustified because he, too, was instrumental in the foundation of the Czech national sc...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

The three-part Baroque 'Suite' by the composer Johann Christoph Faber (born around 1700) was originally composed for recorders. This new arrangement for three string instruments (viola ad lib.) closes...

Apart from the collection of Classical Manuscripts composed by the violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) which he had passed off as transcriptions of settings of old masters, the violinist publis...

Apart from the collection of Classical Manuscripts composed by the violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) which he had passed off as transcriptions of settings of old masters, the violinist publis...

The tremolo study 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' composed in 1896 is, without doubt, the most famous piece by the Spanish composer and guitarist Francisco Tárrega, bringing back memories of the fortified...

In the summer of 1888, Edward Elgar's fiancée (and pupil) Caroline Alice Roberts surprised him with the poem 'Love's Grace' written by herself. During a holiday, the composer re-membered the lines and...

Eli lamah asabthani - My God, why have you left me', this word of Jesus Christ on the cross has been set to instrumental music in the slow movement of the string trio. Taken as an individual setting,...

The Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) had a penchant for fairy tales and devoted himself to such stories at an early age: to the character of the seafarer and gusli player Sadko in...

No wonder that the 'Viennese sound' was familiar to Vienna-born Fritz Kreisler, a sound which is reflected in his 'Old Viennese Dance Tunes': 'Liebesfreud', 'Liebesleid' and 'Schön Rosmarin'. They are...

The music of small forms was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the posit...