Klarinetten-Bibliothek

The title of the work refers to the Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam who lived during the eleventh century and was one of the greatest scholars of his time. The thr...

An effective piece between romantic and jazzy, reminiscent of circus music in places. Originally composed by Paul Lewis for harmonica, the successful short work was arranged for various instruments by...

The Greek composer Nickos Harizanos, born in 1969, was awarded a prize at the Harald Genzmer Composition Competition 2010 for this work. Written in free tonality and extremely rewarding for the clarin...

The Sonatina for clarinet and piano has been composed for didactic purposes, at a clarinet teacher's request. It is a didactic work as it implies both the clarinetist and the pianist to be sufficientl...

The Sonata (2012) - like the Sonata for Violoncello and Piano from the same year - tells of travels through Turkey: Pamukkale, Istanbul Nocturne, Cappadocia. Musically characterized in the style of Sa...

The sense of longing, characteristic of every elegy, is really made for the tonal world of the clarinet. In this attractive concert piece, however, it is 'loaded with barbed hooks', as the composer on...

The formal structure of this organ chorale with solo clarinet follows a Jewish death prayer. The solo clarinet represents the chant of the traditional prayer leader while the organ plays the response...

This virtuoso alienation of the 'Bavarian Defilier March', which is not only familiar to visitors of the Oktoberfest, is an avant-garde joke for the whole clarinet family. A Babylonian musical confusi...

In 2000, the Expo in Hanover saw the world premiere of this arrangement of two parts from the opera Der Rattenfänger by Wilfried Hiller and Michael Ende. The myth about the Pied Piper is placed in a n...

'Kaddish (Aramaic: 'holy') is the Jewish mourning prayer recited for the dead. My Kaddisch für David Stahl was conceived to honour the memory of the long-serving chief musical director of the Staatsth...

The name Kroll has a distinctive ring in clarinet circles as Oskar Kroll's book on the clarinet has been regarded as one of the standard treatises on clarinet playing ever since its first edition in 1...

For 2 clarinets, basset horn and bass clarinet in b.

A neo-impressionistic, virtuosic-cantabile atmospheric picture.

This demanding and sophisticated exploration of the specific instrumental possibilities of the clarinet was written for Sabine Meyer. Solo for Clarinet is a real virtuoso showpiece for solo recitals a...

Kirchner's (oEuvre spans a wide range of musical genres. Apart from numerous compositions for orchestra and for the music theatre the former professional viola player has always had a soft spot for ch...

The composer Nino Rota has become famous, in particular, by his film music to 'Godfather' (Francis Ford Coppola) and to films by Federico Fellini (La dolce vita, Otto e mezzo, Il Casanova, etc.) and L...