Partituras dificil de Schott Musik

A highly expressive setting of an excerpt from Shakespeare's late drama 'Henry VIII' in the German translation by Wolf Graf von Baudissin.

This piece is a morning tune [Morgenlied], for which I have set an excerpt from The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. I imagine the melodic vocal line alongside the resonant piano timbre t...

gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (SB), 3 Sprecher und Orchester - Klavierauszug

'The towers are burning, the church has been ransacked, the town hall lies in ruins, the strong have been hacked to death, the virgins defiled, and wherever we look we see fire, plague and death which...

gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (SBar), Kinderchor (SMezA), 2 Orgel und Instrumental-Ensemble

One of Gavin Bryars' early major choral works, On Photography uses texts by Pope Leo XIII combining a modern subject matter (photography) and archaic language (Latin) with music of timeless beauty. Th...

Summer 1955 is a curious collection of unrelated compositions that Partch composed or revised around the same time; he likely did not intend it to be performed as a set. The five short pieces are impo...

Penderecki's opera 'Ubu Rex' contains a small wind band functioning as King Ubu's 'military band'. Therefore the idea to arrange parts of the opera for large concert orchestra readily presented itself...

Best playability and musical spirit - this is what characterizes the music of Bertold Hummel who died in 2002, and why his music must be part of the repertoire of any amateur and semi-professional orc...

Bertold Hummel's Symphonic Overture was initially part of the Orgeon Symphony. It was then revised as a work in its own right and given the title Symphonic Overture. This work, which lasts about eight...

I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the 'Secret Political Police' which have been arranged (...

Commissioned for the BBC Proms Chamber Concerts in 2000, Vaporize is alive with rhythmic energy and sharp syncopations. Dedicated to John McCabe after Duddell was impressed with the opening chorale of...

At less than seven minutes in length, this technically challenging work makes effective use of the soprano sax's powerful and expressive nature whilst successfully balancing both energetic and exubera...

Marcin Blazewicz, born in Warsaw in 1953, is one of the most successful Polish composers of contemporary music. He studied composition with Francois-Bernard Mache, Iannis Xenakis and Olivier Messiaen...

A work by Krzysztof Penderecki has until now been missing from the solo guitar repertoire. The arrangements published here were created in 2015 after a meeting of guitarist Lukasz Kuropaczewski and Ma...

The four-movement piano sonata is the second part of a three-part cycle: a compositional reflection of the civil war-like events in Istanbul's Gezi Park in the spring of 2013, of the slogans filling t...