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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:...

Texte d'après la tragédie Antoine et Cléopâtre (acte V, scène 2) de William Shakespeare. Réduction piano par le compositeur. Ce monodrame réunit les moments essentiels de la scène II de l'acte V de la...

Des fragments en allemand et en français de Rilke datant de 1911 à 1921 constituent la base littéraire de cette composition. Reimann voit ici une affinité entre Rilke et Kafka. Le langage tonal n'est...

Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

Night-like sounds are explored in a variety of ways in the three parts of this wide-ranging scene. Ornamental and playful, the piano entwines with the singing voice in the first part. In the recitativ...

With his opera 'The Dead Souls' (based on Gogol) and the ballets 'Anna Karenina' (based on Tolstoy), 'The Seagull' and 'Woman with a Little Dog' (both based on Chekov), Shchedrin has brought classic w...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...

Jörg Widmann a composé Signale für sechs Stimmen dans le cadre du Festival de musique de chambre de Witten de 2003 sans utiliser de texte concret. Les voix isolées traitent un matériau phonétique pur....

Le concerto pour piano Yellow River, influencé par Rachmaninov et Tschaikovski, que Lang Lang a inclu à son répertoire, se caractérise, avec sa partie soliste d'une extrême virtuosité, non seulement p...

Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music. Dance works was written specifically for dance theatr...

Alexander Rosenblatt, né à Moscou en 1956, acheva ses études de piano et de composition au conservatoire renommé de sa ville. Il associe dans ses compositions à la fois les éléments du classique et du...

La pièce de concert 'Nirvana Burning' est une commande du Festival de Salzbourg dont la première mondiale a eu lieu en août 2011 pour l'ouverture du festival, avec Faz?l Say et le Borusan Istanbul Phi...

This piece dates back to Vasks' Sturm and Stress period and was premiered in 1977. Freely notated over long passages, it uses both commonly notated passages and symbols as well as clusters. Vasks uses...