Der Welterfolg aus dem Ballett 'Wild Swans' hier arrangiert für Streichquartett.
Choirs will love this light-hearted text set to a flowing piano accompaniment.
Die 'Eliza Aria' aus Kats-Chernins Ballettsuite 'Wild Swans' verdankt ihre Popularität ihrer schlichten, gefühlvollen Art. Damit eignete sie sich bestens für die Unterlegung eines animierten Werbespot...
Eine kurze, bezaubernde Vocalise, die bei YouTube als Musik zu einem Werbevideo zum Welterfolg wurde. Orginal entstammt der Satz aus dem Ballett 'Wild Swans Suite'.
The Eliza Aria from Kats-Chernin's ballet suite Wild Swans owes its popularity to the Lloyds TSB advert which made this aria a worldwide success.Versions are now available for piano solo, flute and pi...
Die blaue Stille erkunden in wundervoll tragenden und geheimnisvollen Akkordklängen, durch die von Zeit zu Zeit ein Achtelwind weht.
Elena Kats-Chernin (* 4. November 1957 in Taschkent) ist eine usbekisch-australische Komponistin
Das dreieinhalbminütige Stück (eingespielt vom Acacia Quartet auf der CD Blue Silence beim Label Vexations840) gehört zu einer Reihe melancholischer Miniaturen, die die usbekisch-australische Komponis...
In 1996, clarinettist Peter Jenkin, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, asked several composers in Australia to write one-minute pieces for a concert. Elena Kats-Chernin drew on melodic and harmoni...
Grand Rag is part of a project in which 67 composers each composed a piece for solo musicians of ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) in 2021. Elena Kats-Chernin wrote her piece in close collab...
While composing Joy in a Minor Key I attempted to achieve a fleeting, light, poetic, almost never 'touching the ground' quality. The piece is written in my favourite form of rondo waltz with a coda,'...
When I came to Sydney from Russia in 1975 with my sister and parents, we took only a few belongings with us, including beautiful hand-embroidered bed linen. It was so valuable that we never used it. O...
Gothic horror in music: This chamber choir miniature in 3/4 time, as entertaining as it is creepy, pays homage to Alban Berg's Wozzeck, which is directly quoted with the line 'Ein schöner Mord, ein gu...
The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...
Created in 2000, this work for children's choir and large orchestra was transformed by the Australian composer into the present version with piano accompaniment in 2008. Even in the reduced and conden...
The Australian composer transformed this work for children's choir and large orchestra, composed in 2000, into the present version with piano accompaniment in 2008. Even in the reductively condensed v...
Little Piece of Gossip was commissioned by Geoffrey Morris and was created in close communication between composer and guitarist. It explores instrument-specific questions such as: "How do percussive...
From the preface:'Elena Kats-Chernin has been writing piano music since she was a little girl. In Piano Village, a mixed collection of pieces of up to five minutes, there are works from intermediate l...
“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...
Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...
Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...
This small suite of three solo pieces was written for violist Deborah Lander, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, which recorded Kats-Chernin's first portrait CD Clocks for ABC Classics in 1997. Th...
Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...
I am Cello is one of several solo pieces by means of which the Australian-based composer remained in contact with her interpreters all over the world during the time of the coronavirus pandemic, compo...
Elena Kats-Chernin wrote Afterwards for the 18th birthday of a young acquaintance, Guy Knopke, who had just started playing the bassoon. The title refers to the new adventures and changes that can lie...
Elena Kats-Chernin has collaborated with writer Joanna Murray-Smith several times, most recently on the TV soap opera The Divorce. A Nostalgic Piece was originally composed as incidental music for the...
Anmerkung der Komponistin: Dieses Stückes wurde 2010 im Original für Carillon geschrieben, im Auftrag von Lyn Fuller, der Carilloneurin von Canberra, als Teil einer Suite mit dem Titel 'Ragged Bells'...
Eliza Aria by Elena Kats-Chernin has become a worldwide success. Composed for the fairy-tale ballet Wild Swans choreographed by Maryl Tankard in 2003, it has become internationally known as theme melo...
The composer wrote her trio for the Haydn celebrations in Eisenstadt in 2009. Inspired by the information that Haydn had wanted the slow movement of his 'Funeral Symphony' No. 44 for his funeral, Kats...
Die Komponistin schrieb ihr Trio für die Haydn-Feierlichkeiten in Eisenstadt 2009. Angeregt von der Information, Haydn habe sich für sein Begräbnis den langsamen Satz seiner 'Trauersinfonie' Nr. 44 ge...
Composer's note: 'In 2000 I wrote a piece called Sand Waltz for the Canberra Wind Players. In the middle of it I wrote a four-chord progression. When I started working on the ballet Wild Swans (2003)...
Die Komponistin zählt Green Leaf Prelude zu ihren liebsten Stücken und hat es für unterschiedlichste Besetzungen eingerichtet. Original handelt es sich um dem Beginn der Ballettmusik Wild Swans von 20...
Composer's note: 'Originally a song for children about flying in ones dreams, this lyrical piece tries never to touch the ground. The work was used in the Rugby 2003 World Cup opening ceremony in a ve...
The rhapsodic, almost ten-minute piece draws its charm from changing metres and various dramatic climaxes within an overall darkly overcast mood. The 'ballad' of the title develops, after a melancholy...
The rhapsodic piece of almost ten minutes draws its charm from changing metres and various dramatic climaxes within an overall dark, overcast mood. The Ballade (ballad) of the title develops, after a...
Mit Der Wind in den Weiden, uraufgeführt 2021, schuf Elena Kats-Chernin die erste Opern-Bearbeitung des berühmten Buches von Kenneth Grahame. Vorliegende kleine Suite für Bläserensemble vereint nach V...
The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...
'I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called "Zeche 2" in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena...
