Schott Musik

Kai a été écrit à la mémoire de Kai Scheffler, premier violoncelliste et membre central de l'Ensemble Modern en Allemagne, après sa mort tragique et prématurée en 1989.Cette oeuvre de 18 minutes se co...

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...

S'ajoutant aux nombreuses laudes chantées de Bryars, il existe un nombre croissant d'oeuvres instrumentales qui s'y rapportent. 'Tre Laude Dolçe' pour violoncelle seul est la deuxième publication de c...

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...

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...