Schott Musik

In 2001, Gavin Bryars began writing a number of pieces based on a large collection of 13th century semi-religious songs, known as 'Lauda', which would have been sung outside churches and in other publ...

Die hängende Figur ist Judas' (The hanging figure is Judas) was commissioned by Dr. Margitta Giera as a gift for the German sculptor Michael Langer. Hesketh's first ideas for the work came from a phot...

Inspirée par la rencontre de Sir Peter Maxwell Davis avec les pievi, ces églises de campagne toscanes du haut Moyen Âge, et particulièrement par leurs obscures et énigmatiques sculptures de pierre, la...

Salat Babilya was inspired by music from Iraq, in particular the beautiful sonorities of the oud, a variety of Middle Eastern lute dating back to antiquity. An oud-like resonance is evoked without the...

Stir, for solo cello without bow, takes it title from the sound made while slowly making circles on the body of the cello with the fingertips, and to the mixing of non-bowed percussive and melodic ele...

Inspired by Boulez's multi-cello piece 'Messagesquisse' and John Scofield's inspired funk number 'Protocol', 'Shift, Trip' is an unrelenting moto perpetuo for amplified cello and pre-recorded guitars,...

Stolen Airs takes as its starting point an episode from Sylvie and the Songman, an opera I am writing in collaboration with the novelist Tim Binding. The Songman has developed the technique of stealin...

Qui eût cru que le ragtime connaîtrait une telle renaissance ! Plus de cinquante ans après la mort de Scott Joplin qui fut son principal représentant, le film L'Arnaque (The Sting) remettait à la mode...

The title '...called dusk' quotes the last line of the prose fragment 'Lessness' by Samuel Beckett: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'. As regards the compositional structu...

Geschickt ausgewählte Zugabestücke geben einem Konzert die besondere Note. Ob virtuose Kabinettstückchen oder besinnliche Melodien: beides kann einem erfolgreichen Konzert zu einer harmonischen Abrund...

Le Cantique des Cantiques, adressé à Sulamith et attribué à Salomon, est un des textes les plus mystérieux de la Bible. Si le personnage de Salomon est énigmatique, celui de la fiancée l'est plus enco...

Only two years after composing his three-movement Cello Sonata in 1919, Paul Hindemith undertook a comprehensive revision of the work. Abandoning the two outer movements, he created a new version base...

Romances sans paroles' est le nom que donna Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) à ses pièces lyriques pour piano - miniatures romantiques dans lesquelles le compositeur voulait 'chanter' sur le cl...

The melodies from George Gershwin's (1898-1937) musicals, from 'Porgy and Bess', from orchestral pieces like 'Rhapsody in Blue' or 'An American in Paris', we all know them! But the career of the young...

Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...

Abdullah Ibrahim aka 'Dollar Brand' is one of the true jazz greats. His cycle 'African Songs' celebrates the unmistakable atmosphere and cheerfulness of African music. This arrangement for cello and p...

Wolfgang Köhler est professeur de piano dans le département jazz et musique populaire au conservatoire supérieur de Berlin. Sa romance pour violoncelle (ou alto) et piano est un Liebeslied ohne Worte...

Wolfgang Köhler, professor of jazz piano at the Berlin Jazz Institute, writes music in the border area between classical, jazz and contemporary music. His 'Variations' for cello and piano are cross-ov...