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In the fall of 1909 Sibelius wrote in his diary: 'At Koli! One of the greatest impressions in my life. Plans [for] 'La Montagne'!' These plans proved to be for the Fourth Symphony. The composition pro...

In this piece, the composer has employed the Zhong-hu (Alto Erhu) - the ancient instrument imported to China from Western Regions (the areas west of Yumenguan, including what is now Xinjiang and parts...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

Obra de repertorio indispensable; primera versión crítica; dos versiones de la balada incluidas en partitura y reducción para piano Carl Reinecke estaba interesado en explorar la música y no sólo en "...

El oratorio de Pascua BWV 249 se estrenó el Domingo de Pascua de 1725 con el texto "Venid, daos prisa y corred". En el cómputo de la nueva BWV, se trata ya de la BWV 249.3, tras dos cantatas de felici...

Las seis últimas y musicalmente más importantes sinfonías de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart en la edición Urtext de Breitkopf & Härtel. Los editores Cliff Eisen y Henrik Wiese presentan un texto musical auté...

Desde la dinastía Tang hasta nuestros días, muchos artistas, entre ellos BAI Xingjian (776 - 826), GUAN Hanqing (ca.1234 - 1300) y REN Tongxiang (1927 - 2002), han comparado el nombre de "Una rosa" co...

The genesis of Beethoven’s 4th symphony came at an extraordinary time for the composer not only regarding productivity: Thus, in 1806 he composed, among other things, the 4th piano concerto, the three...

I got the word 'ambig[uous]' from Thomas Bauer: Die Vereindeutigung der Welt (Stuttgart: Reclam 2018). In this booklet, the author speaks out against a restrictive, perhaps even limited unambiguity an...

This percussion trio was composed in close collaboration with the dedicatees Martin Grubinger, Richard Putz, and Slavik Stakhov. The trio is in three parts, characterized by the sheer joy of a design...

UA Rottenburg (Tage für Neue Musik), 1. April 1990

Max Regers bekannte Romanze G-dur WoO II/10 entstand als Beilage für die 'Neue Musik-Zeitung', für die der Komponist in den Jahren 1900 und 1901 vor allem Lieder und Klavierstücke lieferte. Reger sel...

Kirchenglocken, indische Glöckchen, Almglocken, Glockenspiel - eine reiche Familie, voller Bedeutungen und Traditionen. Als Kind war ich beeindruckt von einer Dankeskapelle in der Nähe meines Heimator...

It was the practice of Khöömii (throat singing) - following several workshops with Michael Ormiston - that first attracted me to Tuvan music. Composing this 'Songbook,' the first in a series commissio...

It was the practice of Khöömii (throat singing) - following several workshops with Michael Ormiston - that first attracted me to Tuvan music. Composing this 'Songbook,' the first in a series commissio...

Als Student hörte ich Aufnahmen der Tenores di Bitti und verliebte mich in ihren bemerkenswerten Gesang - ihr einzigartig intensives Timbre, ihr Zusammenklang, der zugleich rein und rau schien, und da...

Als Student hörte ich Aufnahmen der Tenores di Bitti und verliebte mich in ihren bemerkenswerten Gesang - ihr einzigartig intensives Timbre, ihr Zusammenklang, der zugleich rein und rau schien, und da...

Commissioned by the Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) for the 'non bthvn projekt' 2020 and the Cité de la musique / Philharmonie de Paris Dedicated to Arditti Quartet Each movement of this quartet explo...