2 pianos (SP) - difficult SKU: HL.49033256 Composed by Benjamin Schweitze...(+)
2 pianos (SP) - difficult
SKU: HL.49033256
Composed by Benjamin
Schweitzer. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Playing score. Composed
1996-1997. 56 pages.
Duration 21'. Schott
Music #ED 9732. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49033256).
Oboe, bassoon and piano - difficult SKU: HL.49016219 Composed by Benjamin...(+)
Oboe, bassoon and piano -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49016219
Composed
by Benjamin Schweitzer.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Misc. Score (also
performance score).
Composed 2006. 73 pages.
Duration 10'. Schott
Music #ED 20121.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49016219).
ISBN
9790001146449. UPC:
884088202538.
9.0x12.0x0.195
inches.
The
chiaroscuro-technique
developed by painters of
the Italian renaissance
served to intensify
contrasts and effects of
optical depth. In
Klar/Obskur, I tried to
transfer the general idea
of this technique on the
rather unusual
instrumentation of two
double-reed woodwinds and
piano. On the one hand, a
clear, well articulated
playing is characteristic
for these instruments, on
the other hand, they have
an often underestimated
potential of 'twilight':
air-sounds and fragile,
shady colours have a
especially attractive
when being produced by
double-reed instruments
(which are often, and
superficially regarded as
being less capable of
differentiated sounds
than flute or clarinet).
The piano, too, has a
broad bandwidth of
possibilities between
percussive and delicate
playing to complement the
woodwinds which, in
return, can absorb and
continue the fading piano
sounds.The beginning
introduces the two
contrasting elements that
form the basic material
for the piece: a clear,
sharp chord, followed by
fragile, dim sounds. The
changes between these
elements as well as their
combination and
amalgamation produce an
enormous spectrum of
colours and gesture.
After this 'motto-like'
opening follow four quite
clearly separated short
sections, each of them
being characterised by a
well-defined texture: a
partly almost
imperceptible air-sound
passage, a short sequence
of microintervallic
notes, a burst of
virtuosity and a recourse
to the fragile sounds of
the beginning.The second,
longer main part consists
of three sections merging
subtly into each other: a
short unisono-passage,
marked elastic [federnd],
is being dissolved into
its basic elements; from
these remainders, a
confrontation of low,
'arcane' bassoon and
piano sounds and a
strongly ornamented
melodic line of the oboe
emerges, leading to a
short but powerful
climax. The piece is
concluded by an extended,
relaxed epilogue,
containing a short piano
solo and a duet of oboe
and bassoon and, finally,
a quotation of the
'elastic' character of
the middle
section.Benjamin
Schweitzer.
Accordion - difficult SKU: HL.49018091 Composed by Benjamin Schweitzer. T...(+)
Accordion - difficult
SKU: HL.49018091
Composed by Benjamin
Schweitzer. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Composed
2008/2009. 24 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED20759. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49018091).
ISBN
9790001170338. UPC:
884088520069.
9.0x12.0x0.115
inches.
The title
hidden tracks is
ambiguous. First of all,
the piece is almost
throughout imagined as
'multi-track', with
layers (in the sense of
sound tracks) that partly
overlay each other,
partly suddenly appear
from the background. The
composition deals with
'hidden' lines, sounds at
the perception threshold,
with side effects of the
accordion sound which
-observed, so to speak,
under a compositional
'microscope' - develop a
special allure: that is
the vertical component.
The title has also a
horizontal meaning: a
'hidden track' is a piece
on a record without a
track number that is not
mentioned on the cover
either. In most cases, a
'hidden track' follows
after a longer break
after the (presumably)
last piece on the record;
often this track contains
strange sounds, noise or
other surprising
elements. 'Hidden tracks'
are surrounded by a
nimbus of the mysterious
and subversive. This
effect is being used
rather often throughout
the piece: again and
again, it seems to have
ended but continues after
a pause. The expectation
of the listener and the
attentiveness also for
the tiniest events rises;
the performance receives
an almost scenic
character. hidden tracks
was partly composed in
August 2008 during a stay
at the Kunstlerhaus Lukas
in Ahrenshoop at the
shores of the Baltic Sea.
The work was accompanied
by many walks on the
beach - again and again,
I caught a sight on
tracks in the sand that
became overlaid by other
tracks, wiped out by the
wind and the waves...
Benjamin Schweitzer.
Brass
Quartet Parts.
Composed by Benjamin
Schweitzer. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Baroque, Classical,
Contemporary, German.
Softcover. Composed
2010-2011. 8 pages.
Duration 17'. Schott
Music #SKR20066-10.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019576).
ISBN
9790001180962.
9.0x12.0x0.069 inches.
German.
Brass
quartet parts. Choral
score (SSAATTBB) also
available, item 49019575.
Based on texts by German
Baroque poets.
Piano (Piano) - difficult SKU: HL.49019225 (Rue du Sentier, 1778)....(+)
Piano (Piano) - difficult
SKU: HL.49019225
(Rue du Sentier,
1778). Composed by
Benjamin Schweitzer. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Piano. Softcover.
Composed 2005. 8 pages.
Duration 5'. Schott Music
#ED21337. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49019225).
ISBN
9790001187114. UPC:
884088916497.
9.0x12.0x0.058
inches.
The title
may be read as an
indication of the key and
genre, on the one hand,
but also as an allusion
to a slightly depressive
mood, on the other hand.
Mozart's Piano Sonata in
A minor which may have
been created in the
Parisian street mentioned
in the subtitle virtually
serves as background for
this little, yet somewhat
tricky piano piece. There
are no direct quotations,
but the dissonant chord
from bar 2 of the sonata
in A minor hovers in the
background. Mosaic-like,
slightly dabbed sound
elements are regularly
interrupted by brief,
strong beats. Ambitious
performers who want to
explore new playing
techniques will enjoy
this piece as much as the
audience.
Cello SKU: HL.49046787 The Elements in Review Cello Solo. Composed...(+)
Cello
SKU:
HL.49046787
The
Elements in Review Cello
Solo. Composed by
Benjamin Schweitzer.
String Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 16 pages.
Duration 960 seconds.
Schott Music #ED23237.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046787).
Bassflute, bass clarinet, harp, piano and percussion - difficult SKU: HL.4901...(+)
Bassflute, bass clarinet,
harp, piano and
percussion - difficult
SKU: HL.49019226
For bassflute, bass
clarinet, harp, piano and
percussion. Composed
by Benjamin Schweitzer.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Ensemble. Softcover.
Composed 2010. 140 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED21313. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49019226).
ISBN
9790001181396. UPC:
884088916503.
9.25x12.0x0.379
inches.
'Landscape
With Deserted House' is a
piece of a dark and very
individual character,
almost a 'gothic piece'.
The topos of the deserted
house comes from the
literature of Victorian
England, but also points
toward the present time,
especially toward
Northern Europe where,
after half a century of
migration from the
countryside, countless
houses and estates are
unoccupied and left to
decay.It is especially
the percussion part of
'Landscape With Deserted
House', mainly played on
simple everyday objects,
that refers to this
aspect of the title while
the other instruments
create a sound space full
of peculiar poetry in
finely tuned mixtures. A
piece which will delight
every professional
musician with experience
in modern playing
techniques.
SSAATTBB Choral
Score. Composed by
Benjamin Schweitzer. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. The
acerbic and bizarre
opulence of Baroque
lyrical poetry sets the
tone for vergehn wie
Rauch (vanish like
smoke). The interlinked
themes running through
the poems, expressed with
similar linguistic
devices, enables the
interlacing of the
various texts. Baroque,
Classical, Contemporary,
German. Softcover.
Composed 2010-2011. 76
pages. Duration 16'.
Schott Music #SKR20066.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019575).
ISBN
9790001180955.
8.0x11.5x0.25 inches.
German.
For mixed
choir (SSAATTBB) and
optional brass quartet.
Based on texts by German
Baroque poets (text in
German). Brass parts also
available, item
49019576.