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Experimental piano meets orchestral big band: Sebastian Sternal and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band break new ground on their album Turning Point. Genre-crossing Sebastian Sternal has written music for the Frankfurt Radio Big Band that sounds almost classical while retaining the freedom of jazz. In each piece, the musicians celebrate the rules of their art at the highest level by breaking them with relish. A feast of sounds for discerning music lovers of all genres.

Between Devotion and Desire: On November 15, 2024, Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna returns to the stage at Berlin’s Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Featuring the Mecklenburg Opera Choir and the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin under Marit Strindlund, this intense work is brought to life with a fresh, controversial perspective.

Hand in Hand: This is the message of Mozart ve Mevlana by Fazıl Say. On November 6, 2024, this work will premiere at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL), performed by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Sanderling and joined by the Berlin Radio Choir.

The Symphony in One Movement: On November 1, 2024, Phos by Elis Hallik will have its world premiere at the AFEKT Festival, held at the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn. The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clement Power, will perform this work.

Halloween in the Orchestra: On October 25, 2024, Jörg Widmann’s Danse macabre will invite listeners to a chilling dance with death at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. The Orquesta Nacional de España, conducted by the composer himself, will perform this dark and fascinating composition as a Spanish premiere.

Schott Music is very excited to announce that British composer Edmund Finnis has signed an agreement to join the publishing house’s international roster of composers. Finnis’ music has been praised as “ethereally beautiful”, “bewitching” and “iridescent” by performers and the press over a career that has seen him establish close and long-lasting musical relationships with many high-profile performers.

What does our inner voice sound like? On October 20, 2024, Chaya Czernowin’s new composition Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings will premiere at the closing concert of the Donaueschingen Music Days. The Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, will bring this deeply emotional work to life.

Piano cycles for young and young-at-heart players

La Jeunesse de Berlin is one of the first waltz suites that Offenbach composed for one of the legendary Parisian entertainment establishments, the "Turkish Garden". 

This representative selection of 50 famous masterpieces will delight beginners and those returning to the piano with very easy to easy arrangements for piano.