Christian Jost

There is no other work more closely associated with the organ than Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata in D minor. During my compositional preparation, I repeatedly found myself returning to this work. I...

Kompositionsauftrag von Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lissabon, National Cen...

Rumor Images' sind etwa ein Jahr nach der Urauführung meiner Oper 'Rumor' entstanden und bilden eine für Solocello und Klavier komponierte Konzentration des ersten Bildes. Eine aus Gerüchten wachsende...

The trio Pieces of a Dream, less than 40 minutes in duration, is compressed chamber music in the spirit of a classic jazz trio with the objective of improvising on three different dream sequences, und...

Portrait II is a virtuoso work, but it also brings out the special cantabile nature of the instrument. Recommended for concerts and competitions.

Christian Jost spent the summer of 1987 in an Indian reservation in Arizona. Impressed by the foreign culture and deeply moved by the visit of a Native American burial site, he composed - apart from o...

Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier. Das Werk soll Christian Josts Bewunderung für den Regisseur Stanley Kubrick ausdrücken. Ein kurzes Eröffnungsmodell führt in eine rhythmische Figur, die sich m...

lautlos ist im Umfeld von Christian Josts Choroper Angst - 5 Pforten einer Reise in das Innere der Angst entstanden. So basiert auch lautlos auf einer Stimmung des Ungewissen, Suchenden, ja sogar Resi...

My work lautlos II for solo cello further explores the idea of an inner dialogue between the performer and his or her instrument, in a manner similar to my previous work lautlos I. The instrumentalist...

Contemporary works which do not require any accompaniment are in increasing demand both for lessons and as performance, encore and competition pieces. Christian Jost's hitherto unpublished little work...

Das Werk ist eine Weiterführung der geigerischen Tradition von Maurice Ravels Konzertrhapsodie Tzigane. Das mitreißende Stück ist auch für Wettbewerbe eine gute Alternative anstelle häufig gespielter...

'Zauberei, Magie, Mythen, Legenden, dies sind die großen Themen barocker Opern - Ausdruck der Sehnsucht jener Zeit, sich durch die Illusion der Oper dem Phantastischen hingeben zu können. Diese unverk...

Every player may imagine a wishful portrait for this short elegiac piece. Musically inspired by contrasting works such as 'Portrait for Tracy' by the jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and the Saraband in D...

The Greek poetess Sappho wrote her poems, which have survived in fragmentary form, in exile in Sicily in about 600 BC. Full of natural intensity and liveliness, her verses revolve around the condition...

On the poem by the same name by E.E.Cummings.

The richly varied concert piece shows how well the composer, himself a brilliant piano player, knows how to use the instrument. His polyphonic, complex compositional style gives way to various possibi...

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

Jost's piano quartet is an homage to the outstanding Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and his adaptations of three Shakespeare tragedies ('Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Macbeth'). Although 'Spinnwebwald...