Schott Musik

The piece is dedicated to John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, who commissioned it with funds made available by South West Arts.It makes use of the saxophone's ability to play long expressive m...

Raaf Hekkema, a Dutch saxophone virtuoso, has arranged the famous 24 Capricci Op. 1 by Niccolò Paganini for solo saxophone - for either soprano or alto saxophone depending on the register. For the CD...

Raaf Hekkema's (*1968) arrangement of the famous work by Paganini was initiated by a commission of the Dutch Noord Nederlands Orkest which asked him to play Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 at a tour....

With his piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition from 1874, Mussorgsky created a classic example of programme music. Based on the paintings of his deceased friend Viktor Hartmann, he also composed the l...

Ludger Vollmer's Zwei Hymnen for saxophone quartet is based on a commissioned composition which was written for the 20th anniversary of the reunification. For this occasion, Vollmer had composed a str...

A lamentation which speaks for itself: the sadness, the anger, the mourning and finally the resignation. This composition was written on request of, and in close collaboration with saxophonist Femke I...

This duo volume aims to enrich the literature for 2 saxophones with a selection of duets from the baroque period to the modern era, which - apart from a few original compositions - were originally com...

Jörg Widmann, solista solicitado internacionalmente y profesor de clarinete en la Escuela Superior de Música de Friburgo, muestra el exquisito refinamiento del sonido del clarinete contemporáneo en 'F...

A lo largo de los años, el género del cuarteto de saxofones me había sido bastante ajeno, hasta que escuché al Kebyart Ensemble. La homogeneidad y el virtuosismo del sonido de estos cuatro jóvenes sax...

Matthew Fowlers Arrangement von Francaix Divertissement hebt die technische Brillanz sowie die harmonische Komplexität des französischen Komponisten hervor und präsentiert das originale Werk für Holzb...

Orchestra and obbligato saxophone

Poems is a cycle which currently consists of twelve pieces for piano. The pieces were composed to be also suitable for performance by children, although the demands for each piece vary considerably. A...

Der Flohwalzer, der hier in einer leicht spielbaren Fassung vorgelegt wird, ist schon seit über hundert Jahren eines der bekanntesten Klavierstücke überhaupt. Er ist - teilweise unter anderem Namen -...

Sitting in a room, we hear the ticking of the clock, but it doesn't seem right. The speed is wrong (for a clock) and it is quite irregular. From a far corner someone starts to sing a quiet song while...

Many composers have enjoyed using music to portray animals and their appearance, movements and sounds. In some of these pieces, you might even guess which animal is being portrayed, even if you don't...

In 12 little piano stories the young composer Vera Mohrs tells stories about the more than 3000-year-old friendship between cats and humans. Piano teacher Monika Twelsiek about the edition: 'In her ve...

The Belgian composer Nicholas Lens presents extremely varied etudes, exercises and simple phrases with wonderfully telling titles from poetry and everyday world for children and adults. For the most p...

Carl Albert Löschhorn (1819-1905) was one of the most sought-after piano teachers in the Berlin area. His Children's Studies Op. 181 was originally published in two volumes with 20 studies each. The n...

> Easy poppy pieces for piano > Motivate children to play the piano > Playable from the 1st and 2nd year Not in the mood for 'Für Elise'? Rather play with pirate ships, haunted houses and rock missile...