AMP Amsterdam

Das Volkslied, "A poor wayfaring stranger" ist ein sehr beliebtes Gospellied, das seinen Ursprung am Anfang des 19. Jhs. in den USA hat. Das Werk wurde ursprünglich für Cello und Gitarre komponiert, u...

The title and its vast implications attracted me because it agreed with my intuition, pointing me towards music expressing extreme emotional states. I felt, when writing for the piano, it was essentia...

The Anhang of Köchel's catalogue is full of pieces that for more than a century after his death were thought to be his work; the Müller sonata, a very effective piece on both fortepiano and clavichord...

The second volume of the complete keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains two unpublished sonatas (one unusually in the key of B flat minor) and his considerable output of 'character pie...

The third and final volume of keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains his four sets of extended keyboard variations, including some impressive displays of virtuosity, and a variety of sh...

Den lille danserinnen ('The Little Ballerina') evokes a charming, gracious, light-footed dancer, while Nocturne makes the piano sing in the romantic tradition. Both these delightful small pieces are i...

A programme of moods and characters runs through Bayo's Way. On a hot summer's night, Bayo, the eponymous hero, tumbles and floats his way through a wild jazz-fuelled pilgrimage. Imagine the bustle of...

A hitherto unpublished collection of keyboard music, suitable for harpsichord and organ, but specifically mentioning the clavichord, from the 1680s. Amongst the varied dance movements and suites is mu...

The music of John Dowland, the greatest English lute composer of that Golden Age, circulated widely in keyboard adaptations during his lifetime, suitable for performance on harpsichord, virginals or c...

Highly interesting contemporary work also accessible to players with limited technique.

Lyrische Tiefen entfalten sich in Jan Berans Two Nocturnes, einer Klavierkomposition, die von der ausdrucksstarken Poesie von Brontë und Shakespeare inspiriert ist. Beran, ein Schweizer Komponist, der...

Nr. 17 der zweiteiligen Sammlung "Scelta d'Arie Composte per suo diletto" von Marianna Martines. Das Manuskript entstand 1767 in Wien, gelangte später nach Neapel und wird heute in der Bibliothek des...

Double Act has been commissioned by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Ensemble 10:10 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first concert of the ensemble. Funds towards the commission have been...

In this remarkably inventive work, the composer subjects the melody to a series of intervallic expansions and contractions within several diVerent tonal, and sometimes microtonal, contexts that broadl...