Wolfgang Birtel

Songs Without Words' - that's what Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) called his lyrical piano pieces, romantic miniatures in which the composer wanted to 'sing' on the keyboard instrument. With...

Songs Without Words' - that's what Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) called his lyrical piano pieces, romantic miniatures in which the composer wanted to 'sing' on the keyboard instrument. With...

The collection “Best of Viola Classics - 16 Famous Concert Pieces” for viola and piano presented by Schott contains a selection of works that can accompany every pupil in many years of his or her viol...

La melancólica y popular "Pavana para una princesa muerta" de Maurice Ravel, compuesta en 1899, fue escrita originalmente para piano antes de que la arreglara para orquesta en 1910. Aunque está dedica...

The genre of the violoncello concerto was born in 17th-century Italy. Thanks to the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), there exists today not only a wealth of magnificent violin concertos...

The music of small forms and of chamber-music instrumentations was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher...

When writing his Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a classic of the violoncello literature. But the French musician even wrote other works for this in-strument: further solo...

Solitude, una "romance sans parole" - como Rita Strohl (1865-1941) describió la miniatura en su catálogo razonado manuscrito - para violonchelo y piano fue escrita en 1887, pero no se imprimió hasta d...