Oliver Waespi

In Caledonia, Oliver Waespi adapted three well-known Scottish folk songs into a rhapsodic suite for wind orchestra. The first, rather humorous song, The Devil Came Fiddling Through the Town, tells the...

Audivi Media Nocte is based on the eponymous motet by Thomas Tallis from the 16th Century - a work that holds great fascination for Oliver Waespi. During the process of composition, various chord sequ...

Short Stories consists of five short movements, each of which tells its own musical story. Each movement can also be performed independently. The focus is on the music, not a program or meaning that h...

Short Stories consists of five short movements, each of which tells its own musical story. Each movement can also be performed independently. The focus is on the music, not a program or meaning that h...

The sun glides over the white-blue rock, the glaring back-light on the snowflakes whisked up by the wind, mirror-images in waterfalls and ice-fields, glaciers veined with moraines, further on the dark...

A Sinfonietta is a 'small symphony', so it is a composition that does not boast the length of a real symphony (although this could be the case) and so allows the composer to take some liberties. In th...

This piece comprises a series of variations on the melody of 'Ami, dans cette vie' ('Friend, in this life), an 18th century French song. Like the famous poem 'Canzona di Bacco' by Lorenzo de' Medici,...

This work by Swiss composer Oliver Waespi was one of the highlights at the 2006 Eidgenössische Musikfest in Lucerne. The piece opens with a festive fanfare featuring the brass section. The mood change...

Six Rhaeto-Romanic folk songs from Graubünden, the largest canton of Switzerland, form the basis for this splendid piece by Oliver Waespi. The composer reproduces these melodies almost verbatim and wo...

Canzun' is the Rhaeto-Romanic term for 'song' or 'chant'. The work Canzun is based on two songs from the folk tradition of the Alps. In the middle movement, we hear the Canzun della Sontga Margriata,...

Energico is the third movement from the composition Out of Earth, a musical exploration of the creation of the myth 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'. This myth depicts humanity's path, and is taken from a golde...

Out of Earth is a free musical exploration of the creation mythology from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Much like in other mythologies, it describes the journey of the human race from a once golden age thro...

The Graces of Love' (Le Gratie d'Amore) is the title of a book published in 1602 by Cesare Negri, the famous dance master of the Milan court in the Renaissance. It contains numerous dance tunes and pr...

Friendly Takeover' was composed for the 2016 Swiss Wind Band Convention in Montreux. In this three movement piece the composer experiments with lyrical motives combined with rhythmical pulses in diffe...

The crossing of a mountain pass is called traversada in Romansh. Such a crossing bears uncertainties and dangers, but also hope and new opportunities. Whoever sets out for a traversada is leaving behi...

The Spell' is a musical interpretation of an old legend from the Alpstein, a mystical mountain area in the east of Switzerland. According to the tale, a shepherd boy, Hennes, cared for his animals on...

The Graces of Love' (Le Gratie d'Amore) is the title of a book published in 1602 by Cesare Negri, the famous dance master of the Milan court in the Renaissance. It contains numerous dance tunes and pr...

Friendly Takeover' was composed for the 2016 Swiss Wind Band Convention in Montreux. In this three movement piece the composer experiments with lyrical motives combined with rhythmical pulses in diffe...

The crossing of a mountain pass is called traversada in Romansh. Such a crossing bears uncertainties and dangers, but also hope and new opportunities. Whoever sets out for a traversada is leaving behi...

The Spell' is a musical interpretation of an old legend from the Alpstein, a mystical mountain area in the east of Switzerland. According to the tale, a shepherd boy, Hennes, cared for his animals on...

Eastbound wurde vom Siena Wind Orchestra in Tokio in Auftrag gegeben und kann als eine Art Stadterkundung verstanden werden. Das Stück beginnt mit massiven Akkorden, die in eine kompakte, ausgelassene...

Eastbound wurde vom Siena Wind Orchestra in Tokio in Auftrag gegeben und kann als eine Art Stadterkundung verstanden werden. Das Stück beginnt mit massiven Akkorden, die in eine kompakte, ausgelassene...

This piece comprises a series of variations on the melody of 'Ami, dans cette vie' ('Friend, in this life), an 18th century French song. Like the famous poem 'Canzona di Bacco' by Lorenzo de' Medici,...

The title of this piece reflects its upbeat, forward-driven character. It starts out with a soul groove, carrying a prominent theme which invites players and listeners to dance. The slower middle sect...

Der Titel dieses Stücks spiegelt seinen schwungvollen, vorwärtsgerichteten Charakter wider. Es beginnt mit einem Soul-Groove, über dem sich ein prägnantes Thema entwickelt, welches das Orchester und d...