Peter Züll

Geronimo Gimeniz (1854 - 1923) was born in Sevilla and by the age of twelve he was a violinist in a theatre orchestra in Cadiz. The intermezzo from 'La Baile de Luis Alonso' is in the repertoire of ev...

El Barbero de Sevilla' is a one-act zarzuela, divided into three scenes, with a libretto by Guillermo Perrín y Vico and Miguel de Palacios and music by Jéronimo Giménez. It premiered at the 'Teatro de...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Geronimo Gimeniz is a Sevillan composer of many Zarzuela's. The short temperamental aria Zapatuedo is fro...

In 1933 Revueltas composed his brief symphonic poem "Janitzio" named after an island in Lake Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacán, west of Mexico City, whose population had derived its income largely...

Maurice Ravel beendete 1905 seinen Klavierzyklus "Miroirs", von dem einige Teile vom Komponisten selbst orchestriert wurden. Besonders der vierte Teil, "Alborada del gracioso", der 1919 in Paris für d...

In 1939, Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky wrote incidental music for a children's play called 'The Inventor and the Comedians', by the Soviet Jewish writer Mark Daniel. The play was staged at the 'C...

A miniature symphony by the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) in a highly programmatic style. The work consists of four movements played without interruption and is based on The Noon Witch sto...

A miniature symphony by the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) in a highly programmatic style. The work consists of four movements played without interruption and is based on The Noon Witch sto...

The first of two works that Mendelssohn composed for 2 clarinets and orchestra. The piece consists of 3 movements (Allegro con fuoco, Andante and Presto); the transparent orchestral accompaniment allo...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed the Fugue in E-Flat Major, and its companion Prelude, as the beginning and ending works of the third part of the 'Clavierübungen' around 1739-1740.This colle...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed the Fugue in E-Flat Major, and its companion Prelude, as the beginning and ending works of the third part of the 'Clavierübungen' around 1739-1740.This colle...

This transcription attempts to recreate the excitement of the original organ composition in wind ensemble form. The main concert band is essentially the great organ with the antiphonal brass choir bei...

This transcription attempts to recreate the excitement of the original organ composition in wind ensemble form. The main concert band is essentially the great organ with the antiphonal brass choir bei...

Reverie is one of Scriabin's earliest orchestral works, dating from 1898. Its languid movement and drifting chromatics straight away establish the atmosphere of dreamy sensuality, which permeates so m...

Reverie is one of Scriabin's earliest orchestral works, dating from 1898. Its languid movement and drifting chromatics straight away establish the atmosphere of dreamy sensuality, which permeates so m...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

Otto Nicolai's last opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in Germany opera houses. The aria...

Otto Nicolai's last opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in Germany opera houses. The aria...

Carmen' is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. The Toreadorsong is sung in the second act of the opera: the famous b...

The original manuscript of Neruda's (c.1708) Concerto in Eb Major is found in the Music Department of the National Museum in Prague and is titled: Concerto a Corno Primo del Sig. Neruda. Nowadays it b...

The original manuscript of Neruda's (c.1708) Concerto in Eb Major is found in the Music Department of the National Museum in Prague and is titled: Concerto a Corno Primo del Sig. Neruda. Nowadays it b...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853), this opera belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middle period of composing....