Partituras dificil de Schott Musik

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of do...

While Western polyphonic music achieved its pinnacle in the fugue, rhythmic polyphony of great complexity evolved in Cuba. It is particularly the 'batá' (drumming music originating in the Afro-Cuban '...

This Quartet ends a series of five works recently completed by Kirchner, who is a trained string player. The movement titles themselves, inspired by Shakespeare's 'Tempest', give an idea of the high e...

The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jörg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the perfo...

Gobi Gloria belongs to a series of compositions that grew out of my admiration for Mongolian music. The series include Feng (for cello solo, written for Feng Hew), Gobi Polyphony (for erhu and cello,...

Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was commissioned by the Chiara String Quartet. It consists of seven movements, highly contrasting in character, with movements I and VII serving as similar bookends to...

String Quartet No. 1 ('Between the National and the Bristol'), was commissioned by the Vienna Festival for the Arditti Quartet to perform in October 1985. '... a great deal of the music is in the high...

String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1990 commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and the Balanescu Quartet.'This second quartet is a more relaxed, easy-going piece than the first.

Die sechstteilige Komposition für Sopran und Streichquartett entstand im Auftrag des Lucerne Festival. In den vertonten rätoromanischen Gedichten der Schweizer Literatin Luisa Famos stehen die Themen...

Penderecki's demanding and thrilling String Quartet No. 3 is now available in a version with double-bass. The instruments are of equal importance, the performers have to master both brilliant virtuoso...

2 Trompeten (1. Trompete (C)/Piccolo-Trompete (B), 2. Trompete (C)/Cornet oder Flügelhorn (B), Horn, Posaune, Tuba oder Bass-Posaune

The composer's description: 'Moon time is dream time. Moon time is time for sleep-walking, for dancing on a tight-rope, nearly falling. Music is everywhere: in play and dance, soaring, flowing, losing...

Dissatisfied with computerized sounds the composer experiments exhaustively with the various techniques of playing two recorders simultaneously and requires advanced breathing abilities and proficienc...

To many violists, Garth Knox is known as the author of Viola Spaces (ED 20520), the groundbreaking compendium of modern playing techniques on the viola. Knox begins his Fuga libre in Baroque musical p...

Sketched in Australia in 1981 at a time when Gilbert was studying Australian birdsong-choruses, the completion of Dawnfaring's mixture of freely and conventionally notated material was delayed until 1...

Mark Anthony Turnage, who celebrates his 50th birthday this summer, composed On Opened Ground for one of the world's most celebrated viola soloists, Yuri Bashmet, and the Cleveland Orchestra. The titl...

The Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg (* 1950) is renowned not only in his own country for his many commissioned compositions and performances in Europe and America. His works, most of which are wr...

Ysaÿe liebte es in seinen Sonaten Bach zu zitierten. In seiner 'Homage an Ysaÿe' hat Garth Knox sowohl Motive des Barockmeisters wie auch Themen von Ysaÿe selbst verarbeitet. Die drei Sätze bilden ein...