Hans Werner Henze

This popular piece is now available in a version for viola. In close collaboration with Henze, the arranger Garth Knox created an edition in which the dynamics and phrasing have been made more precise...

Hans Werner Henze's output is primarily dominated by large-scale, representative musical genres with a richly differentiated instrumental tonal palette: opera and other forms of musical theatre works,...

Elogium Musicum amatissimi amici nunc remoti (A Musical Eulogy in praise of a best beloved now far away) was commissioned by the Leipzig Gewandhaus. The premiere took place on 2 October 2008 in the ma...

The fifteenth full Opera from the prolific Hans Werner Henze, and the first to feature a self-penned libretto. After the poems he wrote for his Songs from the Arabian, Henze has produced this unusal t...

Composer's Notes: This piece, written during the winter months of 2000-2001, consists of one movement, Allegro con fuoco, in which an old score is revisited, raided and ravished by its composer. The e...