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SCHOTTEdition SchottSchnebel, DieterSonanzenfor String QuintetIt is not only with regard to theinstrumentation that the stringquintet Sonanzen (a play on thewords ‘consonance’ and ‘dissonance’)follows the famous exampleof Schubert, and evenWagner’s Tristan is present in theform of quotes to express a classicmusic of love and farewell.Taking Hölderlin’s ‘Wie der Zwistder Liebenden sind dieDissonanzen der Welt’ as a motto,the work has been composed asan ‘attempt at the impossibledream of love – and its transcendence’.score and partsGrade: very difficultISMN 979-0-001-17838-9ED 21154£ 58.99 / € 69,00SeptemberSCHOTTEdition SchottVasks, PeterisTris skatienifor free instrumentation (1979)In the subtitle, the composer callsthe piece ‘Three looks into theinfinity of time’. Tris skatieni is anextraordinary work in everyrespect. It has no fixed instrumentation,the instruments can bechosen freely from orchestral,folk or old musical instruments. Itrequires a minimum of four playersbut there may well be more inany number you like.As the performance does notcause any technical difficulties,the piece offers performers, frombeginner or amateur to professionalmusician, interesting possibilitiesto experiment with tonesand rhythms. Unforeseeable andunrepeatable in detail, the resultis, in general, a fascinating tonalworld dazzling in many differentways.performance scoreISMN 979-0-001-18725-1ED 21356 £ 6.99 / € 7,99NovemberBELAIEFFSwan, Alfred J.Triofor piano, flute and clarinet (in A)(1932)Alfred Julius Swan (1890-1970)comes from an English family whohas been engaged in the rubberbusiness in Russia for generations.He attended the Conser -vatoire of St. Petersburg, studiedlaw, music and languages inOxford, emigrated to the USA in1920 and converted to theRussian Orthodox Church in 1936.His research focussed on the oldchants of the Russian OrthodoxChurch and their relationship withthe Russian folk song. As a composer,he left piano sonatas,string quartets and liturgicalchoral music, among others.score and partsGrade: intermediate to advancedISMN 979-0-2030-0510-0BEL 314 £ 15.50 / € 17,99September40Chamber Music