Partitions difficile chez Schott Musik

Ces compositions, dont c'est la première publication, sont particulièrement intéressantes car elles représentent deux périodes de création : Poème lyrique fut écrit dans les années 1910 et montre la r...

Schott présente ici en première publication les pièces que Hans Werner Henze a écrites en l'honneur d'anniversaires ou en hommage à des amis et compagnons de route. Chacune d'elles est un véritable jo...

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

This work, composed in 1990 at the suggestion of the violinist Saschko Gawriloff, is in the tradition of great virtuoso violin concertos. Originally consisting of three movements, the work was revised...

In this sonata, calm passages alternate with extremely lively ones in traditional style. The piano plays in chordal style most of the time as real accompaniment, with polyphonic ensemble playing not b...

En prenant pour titre La Follia, Krzysztof Penderecki se place dans la tradition vivante remontant à l'époque baroque de la variation artistiquement virtuose d'un thème de sarabande. Il en livre neuf...

On se souvient de Stanley Weiner (1925-1991) surtout comme violoniste soliste, prédéterminé musicalement par son père qui fut, entre autres, premier violon solo suppléant de l'Orchestre symphonique de...

Der auf Sylt geborene und in Marburg verstorbene Gustav Jenner komponierte drei Violinsonaten, darunter diese 1893 komponierte Sonate in B-Dur. Jenner wurde 1888 Schüler Johannes Brahms' und übernahm...

Johann Senfter (1879 -1961) wrote three sonatas for Viola solo; modelled on the Solo Sonatas of Max Reger, who was Senfter's teacher of composition in 1908/09 in Leipzig.

Thema der hintersinnig-virtuosen Variationen ist das Andante aus Leopold Mozarts Sinfonie D-Dur (Eisen D 26).

The Violin Concerto, written in 1928, is one of Egk's most significant instrumental works. It is indicative of the contemporary climate of innovation as reflected in the development of new genres for...

Goehr brings an ancient world to life in his setting of eight texts by Hesiod and Homer. Translated into English by Dorothy Wilder and the composer, this song cycle uses the classic stories of Prometh...

The output of this versatile musician encompasses a multitude of styles from 'classical' avant-garde to pop, thanks to his wide-ranging activities as composer, performer, writer and teacher. Schneider...

Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a strikin...

Bariton und Klavier (linke Hand)

The Greek poetess Sappho wrote her poems, which have survived in fragmentary form, in exile in Sicily in about 600 BC. Full of natural intensity and liveliness, her verses revolve around the condition...

Michael Tippett's description of what drew him to the longer of W. B. Yeats' two poems on Byzantium gives us a glimpse of what was going through his mind as the fascination of Byzantium as a mode of s...

Gavin Bryars has returned once again to the poetry of George Bruce and the 'Five Songs from Northern Seas' are dedicated to his memory in his centenary year. Bryars describes the five evocative poems:...