David del Tredici

Text drawn from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

David Del Tredici writes: 'My setting of the 1727 New England Primer's Alphabet might horrify its Puritan author by transforming its simple text into an exuberant tour de force. Its 26 couplets tumble...

From Del Tredici's program notes: 'The sense of moment is emphasized by augmenting the choral forces with a soprano soloist and pianist, who open the work with an extended aria. The ensuing choral com...

Neue Chorwerke von einigen der engagiertesten zeitgenössischen Komponisten Amerikas, speziell als Hommage an die Kunst kindlicher Chormusik und die wundervolle, wenngleich vergängliche Schönheit junge...

From Del Tredici's Program notes: 'In this traumatic post-9/11 world, I felt an urge to connect with, and even comfort, the youngest generation of budding musicians. Heart and felt are two words that...

This piece was written for guitarist David Leisner.

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) David Del Tredici's In Wartime - the first work for wind band by on of America's masters of orchestral music - matches its emotional depth with immediate musical...

A set of variations on the famous theme of Paganini's 24th Caprice. Commissioned by, dedicated to, and inspired by the composer's nephew Felix.

Characterized by what the composer calls an extravagant neo-romanticism this 37-minute piano trio unfolds dramatically, demands the utmost virtuosity of its performers, and ultimately glories in large...

Composer's Note:Belgian Bliss, a 20 minute fantasy on the Mendelssohn Wedding March, was written in celebration of the marriage of my dear composer friend, Tom Cipullo. His new wife, Hedwig Brouchaert...

Composer's Note:One evening, after rehearsal, I asked the members of the Dorain Wind Quintet this: What piece of music would they most wish had been written for woodwind quintet. They went round and r...

'Cello Acrostic is an arrangement of Acrostic Song, the lullaby-like concluding aria from Final Alice, which is the fifth of six large works for soprano and orchestra based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in...

Eight songs which all yearn for love. With each song the focus shifts, but the hunger, passion and remorseless search remain painful constants -- idées fixes -- throughout the cycle. John Kelly's poet...

Sopran und Klavier

For Soprano and Orchestra From the composer's notes: Child Alice was conceived as a single continuity ... the various extracts may be performed separately. Options include: Part I of Child Alice may b...

Contents: Ilustrated Alice * In Wonderland.

New Version 1984 Partitur - Full Score - Solo, gemischter Chor (SATB), Rockgruppe und Orchester.

30-minute work based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem 'The Landlord's Tale.' Composed in memory of the victims of 9/11.

This moving piece is the lullaby-like concluding aria from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici's Final Alice, the fifth of six large works for soprano and orchestra based on Lewis Carrol...

Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Horn, Percussion (2 players), Theremin (available alternately on pre-recorded CD), Piano, Strings.

Premiered in New York in 2009 with the composer David Del Tredici as soloist, 'Mandango' is a set of five gay-themed pieces for piano lasting 26 minutes: 'Same-Sex Marriage', 'LGBT', 'In Memoriam A.C....

This edition is a compilation of Del Tredici's songs for baritone and piano. Apart from the song-cycle 'Gay Life' and the collection 'Three Baritone Songs', it also contains the two songs 'What Lips M...