Sheet Music for String Instruments

Marais gilt als der bedeutendste französische Gambist und wohl auch als der beste Komponist seiner Epoche: Man sagt ihm eine reicher entwickelte Harmonik nach, als sie sein Lehrmeister, Jean-Baptiste...

UA Gschwend, 14. November 1998

Die Sonate für zwei Violen ist eine Huldigung an die Polyphonie. Ihre Charakteristika werden beibehalten, sind aber äußerlich kaum erkennbar.

This work was inspired by a recently rediscovered series of photographs taken by radio operator and photographer Amedeo Verri during the First World War. What struck me most was the positive energy em...

Va,Klav

Mit Ausnahme der Werke für Violine bzw. Violoncello und Klavier, denen jeweils ein eigener Band gewidmet ist, sind in diesem Band alle anderen Werke Mendelssohns für ein oder zwei Instrumente mit Klav...

Marlijn Helder's Choral Fantasie 1&2 for Viola.

Alexander Arutiunian's Sonata Retro for Viola and Piano.

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

A 'Last Night of the Proms' without this march - unthinkable! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1' with its middle section, the hymn-like 'Land of Hope and Glory' by Edward Elgar (1857-1934),...

The 19th century was not only the era of great forms, monumental symphonies and melodious sonatas, no, the Romantic composers proved to be versatile and highly imaginative on the field of little music...

A wedding without a famous wedding march - unimaginable! Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' from 'Lohengrin' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' from the incidental music of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' vie for th...

The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet 'Parade' on 18 May 1917 [siehe dt. Text!] caused quite a scandal. The production which involved...

The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet 'Parade' on 18 May 1917 [siehe dt. Text!] caused quite a scandal. The production which involved...

'Novelty of form, selected modulations, strange tone colours, the use of completely unexpected rhythms', this is how Camille Saint-Saëns praised the debut work of a young colleague and continued: 'Abo...