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The opportunity to write a string quartet for the Chilingirians was on the table for a long time. After several false starts, the present piece was begun in Crete in the summer of 2000. An earlier wor...

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

This second volume in the series of his Op. 13 quartets exploits each instrument equally - even the viola is allocated elaborate solo passages - and offers an attractive alternative (as Haydn realised...

The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentaton...

The main movements, introitus and gradual, have distinctive central ideas – the manic string-crossing chaos of the first and the rather more introspective and mellifluous material of the second....

The inspiration for Tread Softly came from two contrasting sources: the religious music of early medieval Spain, and Debbie Locke's work of art 'Retracing Your Steps - Bristol I'. Although over a thou...

Sergueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9-minute accelerando: the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past.

Published here for the first time, this quintet, written in 1790, opens with the three chords Boccherini used in the sinfonia of his oratorio Gioas, Re di Giuda. The style of the first movement is a m...

This work was commissioned by saxophonist Jean-Marc Bouchard, member of the Quasar saxophone quartet. It was composed during the Summer of 2003 in residence at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur i...

herausgegeben von / edited by Katharina Sellheim mit Unterstützung von / supported by Johannes Krebs Unbeirrt vom kompositorischen Wandel ihrer Zeit - von klassischen Formen hin zu romantischer Progra...

An easily accessible sonata, very enjoyable for both players.

Apostrophen ist Solomusik voller Intensität und Schönheit.

Entre Nous, written for the outstanding Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, is one of a proposed series of three related works, all featuring solo cello. The title reflects the sense of collaboration...

Maria Jaell komponierte ihr 20-minütiges Concerto pour violoncelle (für Violoncello und Orchester) im Jahr 1882 und widmete es Jules Delsart, einem der berühmtesten französischen Cellisten ihrer Zeit....