Partitions pour instruments à cordes

In this second Sonata Krzysztof Penderecki shows the fruits of almost five decades of continuing artistic development. While the first Sonata by the 20 year-old student was already a remarkable stylis...

A major contribution to the modern violin/piano repertory, Alexander Goehr's Suite was written for internationally renowned soloists Pamela Frank and Peter Serkin. It is in 3 movements and last about...

Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who died in March 1999, was both the founder and for 40 years the guiding spirit of the summer music festival that is named after him in the Swiss town of Gstaad. The Gstaad festiv...

You can even play a duet on a solo instrument! In his piece! In notes spread across two systems the violin displays its characteristic contrasting qualities. The instrument contradicts itself: staccat...

Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre. His Three Meditations for Violoncello were theatrical in their inspiration, were as the Pietà for solo violin exploits the full technical range of...

These attributes mentioned here: Ease -Swiftness - Precision - Vividness - Complexity - are used by Benjamin Schweitzer as signposts for putting the pop into the weasel in his solo violin part. Out of...

Dieses Auftragswerk für den 5. Internationalen Violinwettbewerb Leopold Mozart in Augsburg ist im Berlioz-Jahr 2003 eine liebevoll-ironische Hommage an Harriet Smithson, die berühmte englische Darstel...

Enfant, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) attirait déjà l'attention sur ses dons musicaux. A l'âge de sept ans, il commençait le violon et, trois ans plus tard, il était déjà engagé à Vienne et...

Cette transcription pour violon et guitare au lieu de violon et piano de Peter E. Segal correspond bien au caractère de miniature folklorique de cette oeuvre.La guitare peut précisément rendre le colo...

La collection des Manuscrits classiques de Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) que le virtuose composa au tournant du XXe siècle mais qu'il présentait alors comme des transcriptions de maîtres anciens tels que...

La compositrice Johanna Senfter, élève de Max Reger à Leipzig, s'est dans sa musique entièrement vouée au romantisme tardif. On l'a longtemps jugée démodée mais, actuellement, ses oeuvres jouissent d'...

In November 1885 Camille Saint-Saëns set out on a concert tour with the Cuban violinist Diaz Albertini which led him to the north of France on his way to Germany. On a cold and damp evening, the crack...

Né à Paris, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770) fut violiniste à l'orchestre de la cour de Versailles à partir de 1737. Probablement autodidacte, il se montre, dans ses compositions, sensible à l'inf...

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

La compositrice Johanna Senfter, élève de Max Reger à Leipzig, s'est dans sa musique entièrement vouée au romantisme tardif . On l'a longtemps jugée démodée mais, actuellement, ses oeuvres jouissent d...

The edition 'Klangblumen' by Barbara Heller (originally for piano, ED 20374) is now available for flute too.Each of the 14 pieces has a particular focus, such as a certain interval, a special playing...

À l'époque où les violonistes virtuoses voyageaient beaucoup, le Belge Henri Vieuxtemps, au XIXe siècle, comptait parmi les très grands, à côté de Paganini, Spohr, Bériot , Wieniawski et d'autres enco...

'In an easier style, intended rather for its use at home than for concert performances', this is how Bedrich Smetana described his two 'duos' for violin and piano Aus der Heimat, written 'in a truly n...

Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...