Schott Musik

A selection of songs, games, dances, stories and instrumental pieces from the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, E...

Pieces and Processes brings together a collection of original songs, exercises, instrumental pieces and arrangements in an attempt to provide fresh examples of elemental music. The works represent a w...

Written as a compulsory piece for this year's international Commande du Concours international de timbales de Lyon, Holliger explores all sound and pitch combinations that can be realized by a player...

Die 8 Fantasien für Vibraphon sind als weiterführende Literatur für fortgeschrittene Spieler zu H. Gschwendtners 'Elementar Percussion', Band II Stabspiele (ED7177) geschrieben.

In the Meditation a passacaglia is built on the base of twelve different clusters in the piano; the series begins in the third bar after a short introduction, is completely repeated three times, and c...

Greed Machine is a short one movement piece which explores the sustaining power and color of both instruments. The piece is based primarily upon large blocks of sustained sound with periodic interject...

Arranged for saxophone trio by Christoph Enzel.

As times go bye... is a title with several possible meanings. In one sense it is a nostalgic reference to the long period of time that has elapsed since the days of J. S. Bach. In another sense, thoug...

The piece is technically quite difficult and, curiously, it is the lower instruments which have the hardest parts - the baritone sax having some altissimo passages and, eventually, ending the piece wi...

Nearly Distant is a bravura romp for saxophone quartet from one of Britain's leading composers.

Martland wittily plays low against hight, with bluff and gutsy contribitions from the bass saxophone defining the storyline.Rian Evans, Guardian review (world premiere)

Published alongside Martland's arrangement of Purcell's Fantazia 7 for trombone quartet, Fantazia 6 for saxophone quartet follows in a long line of exceptionally inventive arrangements by Steve Martla...

These six character pieces come from Ligeti's famous piano cycle 'Musica ricercata'. Now wild, now cheerful, now contemplative, now excited - each of these miniatures is an unmistakable gem.The minima...

'Panta rhei - everything is in a state of flux' is the bottom line of what the Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed. 'Everything is in a continual state of flux and change' - to him, this was 'logos'...

The subtitle 'For a young elephant' of 'Circus Polka' composed by Stravinsky is due to the piece's original use as music for a ballet performance with 50 elephants and the same number of ballerinas. T...

I got the idea of writing this piece during a rehearsal with Klaus Michael Grüber I saw in Berlin. Three actors were rehearsing a scene of Kleist. At the end, Grüber said: '… now once again in a diffe...

Minimax was premiered in 1923 in the original version for string quartet at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and was arranged for saxophone quartet by Christoph Enzel in 2014. The 6 parodies of military m...

This work was composed for the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. It was premiered in Erfurt cathedral by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and Silvius von Kessel, the cathedral organist. The work c...

after the Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio