'The movements in this suite were origi-nally taken from my animal opera The English Cat but have undergone a series of mutations in the process of adaptation, their shape has changed and the melody a...
My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of our discontent', and of generating more music from that material, was conceived during the 1960s. Ten years lat...
The director-producer Volker Schlöndorff added the string sextet version of the elegiac piano piece Une petite phrase (with variations by students of Henze's composition class in Cologne) to the Marce...
