Schott Musik

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

Hakim's Four Chorale Preludes include rather simple settings of the following choral melodies used in Bach's Leipzig Chorals: No. 1 Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott - melody in the soprano, with a lig...

In commissioning this work, Hans-Georg Vleugels invited me to pay tribute to history's legendary churches, such as the Hagia Sofia of Istanbul and the Schlosskirche of Chemnitz. The Schlosskirche, a f...

Is it possible to reduce large opera scores to scores for a small ensemble which even includes a guitar? If you let yourself in for it, you will be amply rewarded: beautiful melodies, magnificent inte...

Naji Hakim wrote this virtuoso piece for the Breda International Organ Competition which takes place in the Netherlands in 2012. In the first bars, the piece already captivates the audience with brill...

Thierry Pécou's demanding Sextet for piano and wind quintet can be played by students and professional ensembles alike.The composer got his inspiration to write this piece from listening to a gamelan...

In this suite which contains 12 short movements and a concluding 'Final en Rondeau', the composer shows deference to France, the country which he has loved for its music and its culture since his chil...

Seit jeher gehören berühmte Requiem-Vertonungen zu den großen interpretatorischen Herausforderungen im Bereich der Chorliteratur. In seiner modernen Komposition spiegelt der rheinische Komponist Eduar...

In 1826 Weber wrote musical arrangements of ten traditional Scottish melodies. Some of the texts of the German edition follow the original English texts, others are completely independent texts.The in...

Barbara Heller hat diesen Choral dem Andenken von Elke Mascha Blankenburg (1943-2013) gewidmet. Frau Heller sagte im Gespräch vor der Uraufführung über sie: 'Sie hatte ein offenes Herz, eine äußerst z...

This organ fantasy was originally commissioned by the famous Japanese actor Masaru Sekine for his production of the Shakespeare work. Jean Guillou later assembled the various parts to form a musical p...

As inspiration for his Organ Symphony No. 14, Enjott Schneider draws from the atmosphere and the Romanesque style of the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer: the massive walls, the round arches, the western...

This concerto follows the structure of the Italian overture - fast, slow, fast. The first movement is a sonata form without development, based on three themes, rhythmical, oriental, waltz respectively...

The present triptych follows the structure of the Italian overture - fast, slow, fast. Its style is mostly ornamental, with two lively movements framing a rather contemplative central chorale.

Heinz Holliger composed the three-movement work in January 2016 as funeral music for the legendary flutist Aurèle Nicolet who had died shortly before. The pivotal middle movement sons d'or for bass fl...

This work drew its inspiration from the famous picture of the Virgin Mary 'Gnadenbild Mariahilf' (1537) by Lucas Cranach the Elder which shows Mary as a woman of delicate beauty and modest sensuality...

This Cantilena is based on a a stage music by Francisco A. Barbieri (1823-1894), from Don Quijote de la Mancha, Drama in three acts by Ventura de la Vega (1807-1865), inspired by the work of Miguel de...

Im Jahr 1922 beginnt Hindemith, sich verstärkt mit alter Musik zu beschäftigen und entdeckt das Instrument Viola d'amore. Er komponiert eine Sonate und ein Konzert für Viola d'amore und schreibt zahlr...

New Music on old instruments and new organ literature in dialogue with historical Iberian works. The present edition contains a collection of works, composed for an authentically rebuilt historical Sp...