Schott Musik

Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) is one of the most widely known young composers in China. From 1978-1983 he studied at the Central Conservatory of Music of China. As early as 1982 he won 1st prize in the Alexan...

This work of ca. 12 minutes' duration was composed at the suggestion of the cellist Sol Gabetta in remembrance of the great mystic St. Teresa of Avila. Premiered in 2014, it will surely find its way i...

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...

Das Spielen im Duo macht sowohl professionellen Musikern als auch Laien viel Freude und gibt kreative Impulse für das Musizieren. Die Klangverbindung unterschiedlicher Streichinstrumente übt durch die...

An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and de...

Dans le pays natal du compositeur chinois, la fleur du pêcher est un symbole de recommencement et d'immortalité. Dans cette (oEuvre, des fleurs tourbillonnantes sont dotées d'un symbolisme visuel impr...

When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion...

Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melo...

Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melo...

Das 'Pocket Concerto' von Garth Knox bringt die Gattung des Solokonzerts in ein völlig neuartiges Taschenformat. Während die Viola in einem virtuosen Solopart mit zeitgenössischen Spieltechniken brill...