Schott Musik

I had written the Cadman Requiem in 1989 for the Hilliard Ensemble in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. His death affected me very deeply a...

A virtuoso work for an increasingly popular instrumental combination, the title (after Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night) gives a sense of the intensity of this music. Personal memories o...

Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night provides the title, if not the stimulus, for this music. Rather, personal memories of Africa are recalled and in particular the sound of music and dancin...

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

Commandé pour le célèbre Florestan Trio en 2009 qui l'ont joué au Royaume-Uni, en France et en Allemagne, le Piano Trio de Huw Watkins représente ajout d'importance au répertoire de musique de chambre...

The music's air of simplicity clearly stands for gifted craft, from the recurring harp arpeggios of the fist movement to the rhythmic drive of the second and the barefaced major chord that ended the t...

Joe Duddell's music is not bound to any one genre: he has taken on projects with dubstep pioneers, like Nero, alongside commissions for concertos. His ethereal work for solo organ contrasts intricate...

Cette courte pièce de musique de chambre de Tippett paraît enfin dans la série Edition Schott. Prelude, Recitative and Aria est une transcription de l'aria d'Hermès O Divine Music tiré de l'opéra King...

Bryars' Two Love Songs are stunning works for vocal trio or three-part female choir. Setting two of Petrarca's lyric poems of profound and idealised love, the words and music complement each other in...

Written by double bass player Gavin Bryars, this arrangement is one of a series of works for double bass ensemble. Originally scored for viola, cello, double bass and electric guitar, Epilogue from Wo...

It Never Rains is a short piece written in the summer of 2010 that was commissioned by Jim Fox for the Californian label Cold Blue Music and is dedicated to them. The title comes from two sources: the...

Largo Siciliano is a slow dance movement in a simple metre comprising a sequence of variations, separated by a refrain; a single idea is continually reworked and recast. This idea, or little siciliano...

The intense and surreal musical narrative so apparent in Gerald Barry's hugely successful opera The Importance of Being Earnest returns in a new guise for his latest vocal work Jabberwocky. Setting Le...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

Maxwell Davies a écrit ce fascinant quatuor pour hautbois pour les membres de longue date du Hebrides Ensemble et l'a dédié au grand compositeur et chef d'orchestre Oliver Knussen à l'occasion de son...

Written for the magnificent organ of Saint Sulpice in Paris, this virtuosic work is both explorative and passionate. Watkins utilises the full tessitural and dynamic range of the instrument to create...

Overture was written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Countess of Munster Trust at Glyndebourne

English Folk Tunes ' pour ukulélé est un recueil de 37 morceaux pour solo fingerstyle ukulélé qui puise dans la riche tradition de la musique populaire anglaise. Ce volume convient aux joueurs de uku...

Für 2 Klarinetten, Marimbaphon, Klavier, Viola und Violoncello.