Beat Furrer

melodie was commissioned for the ARD Music Competition as the compulsory piece for the semifinals in 2022. It is dedicated to the Austrian flautist Eva Furrer, with whom Beat Furrer works closely and...

World premiere on August 26, 2011 in Bolzano, International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni, Music Conservatory C. Monteverdi: Nicolas Hodges

Die mittelschweren, sehr prägnanten Stücke sind von engagierten Laienchören problemlos zu bewältigen. Mit seiner höchst eindrucksvollen musikalischen Sprache trifft Furrer auf die Poesie und zeitlose...

für Stimme und Flöte nach einem Text von Friederike Mayröcker. Spielpartitur

The moderately difficult, very concise pieces can easily be mastered by dedicated amateur choirs. With his highly impressive musical language, Furrer encounters the poetry and timeless imagery of Leon...

In this impressive, double-choir a cappella work, Beat Furrer sets the text from the sixth book of Lucretius' treatise "De rerum natura" ("On the Nature of Things") to music. The lines, written in art...

World premiere on April 25, 2004 in Witten, Tage für neue Kammermusik: Arditti Quartett

für Flöte und Klavier

Diese Klavierstücke beziehen die ganze Klaviatur in ihre filigrane Textur ein und setzen virtuoses Spielvermögen voraus, damit sie ihre aussergewöhnliche Wirkung entfalten können. Neben den fein geweb...

World premiere on February 16, 2007 in Graz: Grazer Keplerspatzen, conducted by Ulrich Höhs

> Song cycle with visionary, new poetic aura > Ambitious and challenging repertoire of the highest compositional quality > Exemplary engraving For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885-1932) is 'pr...

For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885-1932) is "probably the only Italian writer of his time who was able to bring the new futuristic ideas to life with great poetic power and a strong connecti...

Gloria tibi Domine. Gemischter Chor-SSAATTBB - Singpartitur

Beat Furrer's Duo 'Spazio Immergente I' (everlasting space) leads an over 2000-year-old text of visionary breadth into fascinating worlds of sound - with voice, language, and breath. The ancient poet...