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Ligeti's two-act opera in four scenes, 'Le Grand Macabre', is intense, brilliant music theatre between parody and grave seriousness, between folly and wisdom. His one and only opera, which is exceptio...

In the subtitle, the composer calls the piece 'Three looks into the infinity of time'. Tris skatieni is an extraordinary work in every respect. It has no fixed instrumentation, the instruments can be...

Even in the days of Mozart, musicians liked to experiment with instrumental orchestration. Siegfried Schwab used this approach to arrange the popular Mozart trio, consisting of the movements Allegro -...

Mädchenchor, Gemeinde ad lib. , Bläser ad lib. und Orgel Die Sätze dieser Missa entstanden im Verlauf mehrerer Jahre und wurden für den Mädchenchor am Essener Dom komponiert. Ihren Titel bezieht die M...

The movements of 'Missa di Sant' Anna' were composed over the course of several years, each one for the 'Mädchenchor am Essener Dom' (girls' choir of the Cathedral of Essen). The title of the Mass is...

The title of the piece refers to the Agama, a fundamental holy scripture of early Buddhism. The young composer says about it: 'The basic ideas of these writings were a source of my inspiration. The co...

It was through piano and chamber music that Schubert wanted to pave the way for himself toward 'the great symphony' after 1820. One of these works is the Sonata for piano duet D 812 in C major which h...

'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost...

'Esquisses Persanes' (Persian Sketches) consists of the two movements 'Niya Yesh' (gnosis) and 'Raqs' (dance) which are based completely on the Persian scale C, D flat, E, F, G flat, A flat, B and the...

Two instruments - sometimes two violins, sometimes violin and double-bass or clarinet and bassoon - always take the lead as a duo in the ensemble which is arranged around the audience. In the love-son...

Making music, no matter at what level, is an ideal activity and that at any age. Making music stimulates the mind, delights the soul and also creates the opportunity to do and experience something tog...

Rejoicing silently and in a subdued manner, 'Missa paschalis', with its lyric melody and pleasantly austere sonority, tells of the topic of every celebration of Mass: of the hope of resurrection.Thank...

Rejoicing silently and in a subdued manner, 'Missa paschalis', with its lyric melody and pleasantly austere sonority, tells of the topic of every celebration of Mass: of the hope of resurrection.Thank...

'El-Metfarnageen' is the first piece by the young Egyptian composer and percussionist Mohamed Saad Basha published by Schott Music.In the Egyptian colloquial language, 'El-Metfarnageen' refers to a pe...

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

Since Bach's Trio Sonatas, this form of playing with 2 obbligato parts and pedal has been among the most important and elaborate tasks of every organist, the art of polyphonic playing. Jean Guillou ha...

Schlagzeug (2 Spieler): Gongs, Templeblocks, Woodblocks, Becken, Toms, Tamtam

This diptych consists of two brief contrasting movements which however have a common focus on the amalgamation and fusion of tonal colour in the three instruments.The harmonic foundations of the first...