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Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) is one of the major German organ composers of the 20th century. He studied with Heinrich Lemacher and Walter Braunfels and became professor of composition and music theor...

Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) composed Organ Sonata No. 1 in 1957. Like many of his contemporaries (Ahrens, Bornefeld, Hessenberg, Pepping), he wrote his organ music under the influence of Bach and th...

Hermann Schroeder (1904-84) is one of the leading German organ composers of the 20th century. Music for Organ was written in 1984 and explores the possibilities of tonality: the three movements are wr...

What happens when a very hungry, extremely absent-minded and very short-sighted spectacle cobra loses her glasses - which she is unable to find without her spectacles on - and in her search for someth...

This work describes and interprets psychologically the daily routine of Pan, the God of shepherds and nature in Greek mythology: awakening, longing and temptation, hunting and ecstasy(...). Provided t...

The first version of Mobile for oboe and harp was composed by Heinz Holliger as early as 1962 while studying with Pierre Boulez. The piece is based on the tone row used by Boulez in his Piano Sonata N...

Jean Guillou is one of the most significant contemporary organ virtuosos and composers for the instrument. A student of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he is the personification of the great and living F...

Jean Guillou is one of the most eminent organists of our time. His compositions make use of the full range of colours which the organ is capable of producing and handle the instrument with virtuoso sk...

Though the work bearing this title is a portrait of childhood, it is a childhood quite different from the purely gameplaying and dreamlike childhood that is customarily represented. The childhood desc...

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 Percy Aldridge Graingers Stück 'Colonial Song' wird ein berühmtes Volkslied opulent in Szene gesetzt. Eine große, weit geschwungene Melodie erhebt sich zum Himmel und reisst den Zuhörer mit. Immer...

Peteris Vasks has written compositions for organ again and again, whether original works or arrangements of his own works for strings. He drew his ideal sound image and his inspiration from the famous...

Peteris Vasks has written compositions for organ again and again, whether original works or arrangements of his own works for strings. He drew his ideal sound image and his inspiration from the famous...

Viatore was originally one of Peteris Vasks's extremely successful works for string orchestra. This newly-published arrangement translates the inexorably shimmering original string sound of the piece...