Oliver Greif

The "Vienese concert" is a cycle of five songs after the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine and was composed when Olivier Greif was 23 years old. The manuscript provides the exact dates of composit...

Thirty years later, still very present is the memory of that Lausanne studio, crammed by the two pianos and three protagonists hearing for the first time the Petite Cantate while recording it. This is...

After a long period of silence, which he felt was necessary, Greif returned to composition just over three years before writing this Sonata in 1994, which was completed in just one month. It is theref...

For four-hands piano and of a duration of 15', Le Tombeau de Ravel is a commission from the Festival of Montfort- L'Amaury, for the celebration of Maurice Ravel's birth centenary on 23-25 May 1975. Ol...

Le Rêve du monde (The Dream of the World), a 25-minute piano piece in 4 movements, was written in May 1993 and created by Olivier Greif within the following months. In May 1993, Le Rêve du monde was d...

This Sonata was initially conceived (in 1995) for solo cello. It rapidly proved unplayable in this form. In 1996 it was entirely recast for two cellos. This was not simply a matter of transcribing it,...

The concert aria Bomben auf Engelland was created on December 13th, 1976 at the Essaïon theatre in Paris by soprano Nell Froger, saxophonist Ryo Noda and the composer himself at the piano, during a "O...