Brett Dean

The composer states:'The term 'oblique strategies' was coined jointly by British musician Brian Eno and German-born British visual artist Peter Schmidt to describe a series of printed cards they devel...

With his opera Hamlet, which premiered in Glyndebourne in 2017, the composer Brett Dean added a new, modern analysis to the certainly numerous artistic ones of the famous subject - with enormous succe...

The title of the Sextet has been borrowed from the medical profession, referring to a clinical sleep study. Brett Dean, however, proves to be less of a cool, analytical dissector of man's inner worlds...

Equality in this case is to be understood less in a musical sence but rather as a meaningful unit of the battle of the sexes. The piano serves to pointedly express what has been said, what has been hu...

Brett Dean wrote this short atmospheric Christmas Carol on the basis of a poem by Richard Watson Gilder for the choir of the renowned King's College in Cambridge where, appropriately enough, it was pe...

Composed to commission by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Australia and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2005, this work was first performed that year at B...

Eclipse steht für die Überlagerung von Licht durch Schatten, für Verdunkelung und das Verschwinden. Das Werk setzt sich mit dem Widerstreit von Humanität (Licht) und Politik (Schatten) auseinander, wi...

Das erste große Orchesterwerk des australischen Komponisten Brett Dean in einer exemplarischen Studienpartitur. In diesem Auftragswerk des Melbourne Symphony Orchestra aus dem Jahr 1995 werden die ein...

Text by Sophia von Wilcken. She was eight years old when she attended a performance of Hans Krása's children's opera Brundibár. Katz und Spatz are two main characters of this opera. The text reflects...