SKU: BT.EMBZ14760

This work, composed in 1971, was intended for professional performers. It was written with post-Webern, free twelve-tone technique its sound is characterized by frequent use of all twelve notes in the construction of the harmony, and by wide spacing of dissonant intervals or the crowding of them into dense blocks. These short character pieces contain a great variety of gestures and emotions, ranging from witty playfulness through violent Sturm und Drang behaviour that shatters every framework, to mournful lamentation and hope of hymnic redemption.

Das 1971 komponierte Werk entstand für professionelle Interpreten. Bei seiner Komposition wurde die post-Webernsche, freie Zwölftontechnik angewandt. Seine Klangwelt wird durch den Zusammenbau aller zwölf Töne zu einer Harmonie, durch die Positionierung der dissonanten Tonintervalle in weiten Lagen oder deren Komprimierung in große Blocks charakterisiert. Die kurzen Charakterstücke beinhalten viele Gesten und Emotionen, die von der witzigen Verspieltheit über das aggressive, jegliche Rahmen zersprengendes Sturm und Drang-Verhalten, bis hin zum Trauerlied und der hymnischen Erlösungshoffnung reichen.

SKU: FV.FUE-3160

ISBN 979-0-50012-816-8.

Ruth Schonthal's compositions, which reflect the concerns of today's world, display a unique blend of her deeply rooted European tradition, depth of feeling, and masterful blending of traditional and contemporary techniques.Ruth Schonthal never followed the prevalent contemporary aesthetic fashions. At a time when Anton Webern and John Cage were the American role models, she followed her own musical path, never denying her own classic-romantic heritage. The extraordinarily varied impressions she absorbed in the course of her life in different parts of the world provided the foundation of her musical style. Through exposure to diverse influences and teaching methods in Germany, Sweden, Mexico and the USA, Ruth Schonthal was able to extrapolate an unusually rich mixture of compositional techniques from these experiences. She used them to form a comprehensive stylistic synthesis.

SKU: HL.48025021

The piano works by the Swiss composer Erich Schmid (1907-2000), written between 1926 and 1943, are close to the Viennese School of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, but bring their own special colour to this spectrum. Even where they are twelve-tonal, Schmid's piano pieces do not exhaust themselves in strict constructivism, but often have a playful, motoric side. With their manageable rangeand complexity, they provide a comparatively easy access to a style that was formative in the first half of the 20th century. Splitter (Volume 2), a collection of folk song arrangements and character pieces in a freely tonal style, is particularly easy to play. Schmid's first collection Kleine Musik (Volume 1) can also be mastered by amateurs.

SKU: HL.49008382

ISBN 9790001129961. UPC: 073999352115. 8.25x11.75x0.095 inches.

These pieces for piano were written during the composer's intensive investigation of the 12-tone technique of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. Holler describes his short piano pieces as 'the first valid results of my involvement with the second Viennese School'. These five serial pieces are all based on the same 12-tone row, its inversion, retrograde form and retrograde inversion.

SKU: HL.50512030

ISBN 9790080147603. A/4 inches. Laszlo Dubrovay.

This work, composed in 1971, was intended for professional performers. It was written with post-Webern, free twelve-tone technique; its sound is characterized by frequent use of all twelve notes in the construction of the harmony, and by wide spacing of dissonant intervals or the crowding of them into dense blocks. These short character pieces contain a great variety of gestures and emotions, ranging from witty playfulness through violent -Sturm und Drang- behaviour that shatters every framework, to mournful lamentation and hope of hymnic redemption.

SKU: LM.26316D

ISBN 9790231701654.

BACH : Bourree en La mineur - Petit Prelude en Mi Majeur BWV 937 - Petit Prelude en Mi mineur BWV 938 - BARTOK : Danse paysanne - For Children Vol.1 n. 32 - BEETHOVEN : Sonate Op.49 n. 2 - Bagatelle Op.119 n. 1 - CHOPIN : Valse posthume en La mineur - CIMAROSA : Sonate en Si b - CLEMENTI : Sonatine Op.36 n. 6 (1e mvt) - DAQUIN : Le Coucou - DEBUSSY : Le Petit berger - GRANADOS : Danse de la rose - HAYDN : Presto (Sonate en Mi Majeur Hob. XVI 13) - JANACEK : Une Feuille s'envole - LUTOSLAWSKI : Etude a quatre voix - MARTINU : Danse de Colombine - Valse d'une marionnette sentimentale - MENDELSSOHN : Chanson du gondolier Op.30 n. 6 - Romance sans paroles Op.85 n. 2 - MOZART : Rondo de la Sonate KV 545 - PROKOFIEV : Tarentelle - RAMEAU : La Joyeuse - SCHONBERG : Opus 19 n. 2 - SCHUBERT : 3 Landler - SCHUMANN : Fantaisie-danse - Petite Romance - Premiere Scene d'enfant - SMETANA : Lied - VILLA-LOBOS : Allegro (2e Suite enfantine) - WEBERN : Kinderstuck.

SKU: BR.EB-6473

World premiere: Dusseldorf, January 19, 1965

ISBN 9790004167335. 9 x 12 inches.

Das siebenteilige Klavierwerk Heptameron ist streng dodekaphonisch konzipiert, - sieben charakteristische Studien, Szenen, Epigramme. In jedem Stuck wird ein kompositorischer Gedanke mit einem spieltechnischen Problem (Sekundketten, Triller, Tremolo, Repetition) konfrontiert. Spiegelstrukturen dominieren in einzelnen Abschnitten (Nr. 3, 5 und 6), oder bestimmen den gesamten Satzverlauf (Nr. 1). Im Finale deutet sich eine Losung an: aus einem signalhaften Klangmotiv zu Beginn entwickeln sich Bruchstucke eines marionettenhaften Menuetts. Heptameron ist der Versuch, die Tonsprache Schonbergs und Weberns in eigenstandiger Weise zur Synthese zu fuhren. CDs: Oliver Drechsel CD Telos 024 Wolfgang Leibnitz (Piano) CD Gallo 1027

World premiere: Dusseldorf, January 19, 1965.