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Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt has adapted his celebrated work, Summa, for recorder quartet. Originally written for four solo a cappella voices, it is also available in arrangements for string...

Much of Arvo Pärt's music is for small forces and within the technical capabilities of developing musicians. Da Pacem Domine for recorder quartet is another example. Written in his tintinnabuli style,...

Excellent easy arrangements of well-known traditional songs for recorder quartet Playing together in a recorder quartet for the first time is a wonderful experience. Finding suitable pieces is, howeve...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...

All of these pieces, best suited for young cellists in their earliest stages of learning, can be performed as solos or in unison with others. Some have an optional second part, allowing them to serve...

Studienpartitur - Versuche für Klaviertrio

All through his life, Bruno Walter (1876-1962) belonged to the artistic elite of the international music world. This book documents the various stages of Bruno Walter's artistic career based on the le...

Taschenpartitur - Zum Tod seiner Schwester Mathilde

Die sechs kontrastreichen Sätze stehen jedenfalls sowohl der Form als auch dem Charakter nach der Kategorie der Suite sehr nahe: außerdem deuten die Satzbezeichnungen auf ein latentes poetisches Progr...

Studienpartitur - Spielpartitur UE 31491 für Aufführungen als Sonderanfertigung lieferbar

Das Streichquartett des Jahres 1923 - die Pantomime Zaubernacht war bereits komponiert , die erste Oper, Der Protagonist , sollte ein Jahr später geschrieben werden - hat noch etwas vom Ton der Anbruc...

Hardly more than a year before the first performance of the Lyric Suite on 8 January 1927, Alban Berg had suddenly emerged from almost total obscurity to world-wide fame with the premiere of Wozzeck....

To make myself clear: This is not programme music, it does not require an explanation attached to it; it speaks for itself. What it wishes to say it does by means of pure music. But it does say someth...

The fourth string quartet embodies that moment in Bartók's art in which the composer, surpassing the concentrated and retrospective third quartet, reaches a summit for the first time and casts his gaz...