Partituras dificil de Schott Musik

Often in a humoristic manner and always with musical expression in focus, these eight pieces are perfect for every violinist to practice playing techniques and to enhance the enthusiasm to experiment...

Widmann's 'Études' for solo violin are in the tradition of the caprices by Paganini and the piano studies by Chopin, Liszt and Ligeti: artistically autonomous concertante pieces on a specific technica...

This work was originally written for brass band (see there). At the composer's request, his former pupil Marcel Wengler wrote an arrangement for Symphonie wind band, which is equal to the original in...

This challenging slow duet for two bass clarinets in Bb combines expressive melodic writing, abrupt meter changes, and extreme dynamics that give this short composition an agitated and volatile charac...

The work was written for the famous Dutch bass clarinettist Henri Bok. It consists of six movements merging into one another, offering the player all possibilities to present the wide tonal range of t...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

after the Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio

From soft cantilenas to bird-like multiphonic twittering, Heinz Holliger transfers the mood of the underlying texts into an instrumental dialogue. An intriguing addition to the contemporary oboe reper...

Mustonen is one of the composing piano virtuosos of the young generation. What is remarkable in his works is that he does not give priority to 'his instrument'. He has composed pieces for strings, son...

Spielmusik für 3 Violinen zur solistischen und chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden

Vytautas Laurusas (*1930) studied at the State Conservatoire of Music; since 1994 he has been a professor there. Vocal works and chamber music form the core of his output as a composer. In his works h...

The arrangements of this collection document an increasing distance of the arranger from the original. Ballade IV and Ballade XXVI play with real pitches and the transfer into the weightlessness of na...

Vytautas Lauru(s

The first movement 'Breakfast al fresco' is dominated by impressionistic colour, delicate tremoli sul ponticello and flageolet sounds in the two strings are juxtaposed with precise runs in the piano....