Partitions difficile pour Violon

Après un silence was originally written as a work for violin and piano. The piano part was subsequently orchestrated in such a way that the work may be performed with a chamber orchestra or with an en...

Prenant son point de départ dans le poème Grandes plaines du jour du philosophe et poète du XVIIe siècle Cyrano de Bergerac, Hesketh réunit hardiment dans cette oeuvre de 12 minutes pour violon seul u...

'Broken Lute, six pieces for violin alone', is written on a Chinese Ming story, 'The Minister, The Lute and the Woodcutter' from which Goehr has extracted key sentences and placed them at particular p...

These six short pieces might more readily be described as fantasies, each with its own sound-world but linked by shared material. The mood of each of these short movements is guided by an imaginary la...

Jörg Widmann traite d'abord le violon comme un instrument chantant, tout à fait en cela dans la tradition des grands concertos pour violon du XIXe siècle jusqu'à Alban Berg. Mais à partir des lignes c...

New performance material of this 19th-century key work is now published as part of the complete critical edition of the works by Robert Schumann, in an excellent notation and with a high editorial sta...

In a conversation with the violinist Peter Herresthal, we touched on the “invitation' in the score of Ligeti's Violin concerto to provide a cadenza for the work. Peter suggested that I answer this inv...

Jörg Widmann a composé ces cadences nobles et délibérément simples du Concerto pour violon de Mozart en 2006, sur commande du Festival de Musique de Schleswig-Holstein pour la violoniste Isabelle van...

Écrits pour Isabelle Faust, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Hansheinz Schneeberger et Thomas Zehetmair, les 4 Hommages sont à la fois des rappels amusants comme des pièces de concert et des études matures av...

Nikolai Kapustin is regarded as pioneer of the Soviet jazz scene. In his music he combines typical jazz idioms with classical forms. The Sonata Op. 70 in three movements for violin and piano was writt...

In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations....