Schott Musik

Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for John Kasica, this short piece provides a musical platform for sheer virtuosic display. The term argoru is a word from the Ghanaian Twi language m...

Parallel Lines was written for the acclaimed marimba player Colin Currie and brilliantly exploits his energy and panache. 10 minutes of fast, accessible music - an ideal showcase for any hungry marimb...

Marcin Blazewicz, born in Warsaw in 1953, is one of the most successful Polish composers of contemporary music. He studied composition with Francois-Bernard Mache, Iannis Xenakis and Olivier Messiaen...

Written for marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens, Velocities is characterized by a continuously unfolding texture of rapid gestures within a framework of continually shifting meters. The first major divisio...

This sonata is composed for Orff instrumentarium with the intention of offering the sonata form in a lively way.The allegro follows the classical sonata form: an exposition of the two themes, a develo...

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...

This short solo piece originally comes from the orchestral composition Concerto ...per soli con tutti and is suitable both for concerts and competitions or as a subtle encore.

A 12-minute composition in two parts: The first is played by three piccolos, the second by three different flutes. The instrument is treated like a windpipe - the production of raw and unsophisticated...

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...

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

Argoru VII is an exercise in Alvin Singleton's methods of extreme contrasts. Fast, ascending grace note scales are followed by soft, memory evocative long tones. The contrasts of the quick and the lon...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

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...

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...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

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...

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.

Based upon Jorge Luis Borges' imaginary ancient Chinese encyclopaedia in which the animal kingdom is broken down into fourteen categories such as 'Frenzied creatures' and 'Those belonging to the Emper...

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