Ensemble

Penderecki a déjà participé à notre série Cadenza avec une cadence du Concerto pour trompette de Haydn. La particularité en était l'utilisation des deux cors de l'orchestre dans les cadences de la tro...

In the work commissioned by Mozart-two-6 for the Tanzquartier Wien, Faz?l Say has transported the Viennese composer Mozart to the beach of the ancient city Patara in his own native Turkey. Say has dev...

Der 'normale' Tastatur-Klavierklang bleibt in diesem Stück die Ausnahme, in der Singstimme wird auf Text weitgehend verzichtet und die Klarinettenstimme ist übersät mit Luft- und Mehrklängen.

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

Der tschechische Komponist Petr Eben komponierte die Gutenberg-Toccata im Auftrag der Stadt Mainz zum Gutenberg-Jahr 2000. Er reflektiert die große Bedeutung Gutenbergs drucktechnischer Erfindungen fü...

In the run-up to the Schumann Year 2010, Reimann now presents one of the standard works of clarinet literature in a tonally sublime arrangement for clarinet, flute, harp and two violas in which Reiman...

The compositions by the greatest Brazilian tango composer and pianist Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (1863 -1934) are strongly influenced by Brazilian folk music. He preferred light entertainment, and his...

The compositions by the greatest Brazilian tango composer and pianist Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (1863 -1934) are strongly influenced by Brazilian folk music. He preferred light entertainment, and his...

...ni una sombra est écrit pour soprano, clarinette et piano, la même instrumentation pour trio que 'Hirt auf dem Felsen' de Schubert a rendue célèbre. La pièce met en contraste un poème de Friedrich...

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 -...

Ce quatuor avec piano de Jost est un hommage au grand cinéaste Akira Kurosawa et à ses adaptations de trois tragédies de Shakespeare (Hamlet, Le Roi Lear, Macbeth). Bien que le titre Spinnwebwald (For...

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur. Leben und Leiden der Bojarin Morosowa und ihrer Schwester Fürstin Urussowa.

Les 'Pièces très faciles pour basson et violoncelle' de Hindemith ont été écrites à New Haven, probablement entre 1941 et 1944. C'est particulièrement lors de ces années d'exil qu'il aimait faire de l...

Das 2008 uraufgeführte Werk für Klarinette und Violoncello beschreibt die Wanderung entlang eines Gebirgsbachs - Themen wie Rast, Aufbruch und Reflektion werden untermalt von den wiederkehrenden, flie...

The reason for the composition of this work is well-known: Bach's encounter with Frederick the Great and the story of the 'royal theme' which the King of Prussia 'deigned to play' on a pianoforte and...

Les circonstances de la composition de cette œuvre sont connues et ont été maintes fois documentées : la rencontre de Bach avec Frédéric le Grand et l'histoire du 'thème royal' que le roi de Prusse 'd...

Le compositeur hollandais Karel van Steenhoven (*1958) a écrit plusieurs œuvres pour le fameux Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartett dont il est membre fondateur. Il a aussi composé d'autres œuvres pour l...

In this trio, the composer Enjott Schneider again displays his inventiveness which is of course pushed to its limits due to the reference to the famous character Karl Valentin from Munich. By using mu...

These movements are distinguished by a high, bold leap of imagination…', judged a reviewer of the first edition of the Trio. But it is likely that Weber never performed his Trio in public - perhaps an...

With Granica, Enjott Schneider presents a work in which three instruments play alongside each other in a concertante manner on an equal basis. As in most of his pieces, he makes careful use of contemp...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...