SKU: HL.49008142

ISBN 9790001121705. UPC: 840126938913. 0.4 inches. German.

This cycle arranged by Aribert Reimann of eight Lieder by Mendelssohn contains well-known items like: 'Leise zieht durch mein Gemut' and 'Auf Flugeln des Gesangs'. The songs are joined to each other by specially composed intermezzi which attempt - with refer-ence to the thematic material of the songs - to re-interpret Mendelssohn's idiom for our time. '... oder soll es Tod bedeuten' ist the final work in Reimann's series of adaptions of 19th-century songs for voice and string quartet. Franz Schubert's 'Mignon' (ED 8466) has already been published. All these cycles have been recorded by Juliane Banse and the Cherubini Quartet and are available on CD (TUD 7063).

SKU: HL.49005586

ISBN 9790001060240. German.

2 (2. auch Picc.) * 1 * Engl. Hr. * 2 (2. auch Bassklar.) * Altsax. * 2 (2. auch Kontrafag.) - 4 * 2 * 0 * 0 - P. S. (Trgl. * Beck. * Tamt. * Tamb. * Ruhrtr. * kl. Tr. * gr. Tr. * Glspl. * Xyl.) (3 Spieler) - Hfe. * Klav. (auch Cel.) - Str. (12 * 10 * 8 * 6 * 4).

SKU: HL.48025271

UPC: 196288154341.

Erich Schmid (1907 - 2000) was an orchestra conductor, choir director and university lecturer who promoted world premieres and radiobroadcasts of contemporary music in Switzerland. He himself studied with Bernhard Sekles, among others, then with Arnold Schönberg and followed the aesthetics of the New Viennese School in his compositions. The historical-critical Erich Schmid Edition publishes for the first time all sixteen opus-numbered works as well as three additional piano works. Suite No. 1 is an interesting hybrid that conveys the most modern compositional structure in the genre of light music. Schmid composed it shortly after the end of his year as a master student of Schönberg in Berlin. Like his other works of the time, its unusual instrumentation already shows an effort to move on from classical “high forms” and compose in looser structures, with the free use of the twelve-tone technique providing inner coherence. “Dance”, “Waltz”, “March” are linked by two inserted “Intermezzi” and introduced by an “Introduction� �. Not all movements require full instrumentation and are designed for solo rather than group performance. Professional playing techniques such as flutter tonguing and alienating sound effects through damping and muting are used.