Martin Bresnick

Based on Wallace Stevens' poem 'The Planet on the Table' this string quartet's world is made of the music and sounds of remembered times or of something heard that the composer, Martin Bresnick, liked...

This work for violin and piano by Martin Bresnick is a play on the words "suite" and "bittersweet." Each of the four movements is based on a Yiddish folk song, which in English translate to On the Roa...

In his poem Mending Wall, the inspiration for this piece, Robert Frost famously says "Something there is that doesn't love a wall." Mending Time, composed for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxopho...

Composed in 1983 for the flutist Robert Dick, High Art employs some of the special performance techniques introduced in Dick's pioneering study, The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary T...

Carl Fischer Music is proud to announce the publication of a new work by prolific and versatile New York City-based composer Martin Bresnick. Every Thing Must Go was written for the oft-underserved in...

Originally commissioned by the International Max Rostal competition in Berlin for solo violin, Martin Bresnick's, Josephine (the Singer) is now also available for solo viola. The piece takes its title...

Bresnick's melancholy solo for cello with piano was inspired by the poem 'Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever,' by the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. In the words of the composer: 'Although A...

This work is based on Franz Kafka's last short work Josephine the Singer or the Mouse People. In that valedictory story, Kafka meditates on a mouse diva, Josephine, and the relationship to both her ar...

The title of this work for violin and piano by Martin Bresnick is a play on the words "suite" and "bittersweet." Each of the four movements is based on a Yiddish folk song, which in English translate...

Josephine (the Singer) takes its title from Franz Kafka's last published story, Josephine the Singer or the Mouse People. This valedictory tale was Kafka's prescient meditation both on musical divas a...

Ishi was among the last of the Yahi Indians. Living in northern California, these Native Americans were part of a larger group known as the Yana. They were ruthlessly suppressed and finally decimated...

The enigmatic and symbolic title of the 9th piece in Bresnick's musical sequence, Opere della Musica Povera is again 'Schumannesque,' deriving from Schumann's example in Album for the Young. The symbo...

Martin Bresnick arranged Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture for a small group of instruments, both to honor Beethoven’s 250th birthday and to provide a template for the young composers invited to create a...

Hagyaték is the Hungarian word for "legacy." This work for two pianos and two percussion was commissioned by and dedicated to the icarus Quartet. As indicated by the title, the composition honors the...

Martin Bresnick began playing the oboe at the age of eleven and performed seriously throughout graduate school, and was delighted to be invited to write an oboe quartet for the group Double Entendre....