Poul Ruders

Ruders writes: There's a solid tradition in the history of Western music of turning the theme of Nicolo Paganini's '24th Caprice' for soloviolin into a set of variations endemic to the time and style...

For Piano and Orchestra. Commissioned by The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Jerome Lowenthal. Full Score. Orchestration 3 Flutes (3rd dbl. Piccolo) 3 Oboes (3rd dbl. Cor Anglais in F) 3 Clarinets (1...

Paganini Variations - Piano Concerto No. 3 (The original guitar-part arranged for piano and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott by the composer, 2014). Programme note: In 1999 my friend, American guitar virt...

Concerto For Viola And Orchestra by the Danish composer Poul Ruders. Full score. This 28 minute piece was written for Yuri Bashmet, commissioned by Léonie Sonnings Music Foundation and first performed...

Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses...

The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.

Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 1995. Programme note: CORONA makes the final part of the SOLAR-TRILOGY, a huge symphonic triptych about the life and behav...

New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goes back there to work. 'Manhattan Abstraction' (1982) subtitles - a symphonic skyline for large orchestra - was conceived...

Thus Saw St. John is a work for Orchestra which was inspired by Chapter 6 of the Book Of Revelation.

The full score of Ruders' first Symphony, subtitled Himmelhoch jauchzend - zum Tode betrübt. Written for large orchestra.

Tundra - A Hommage To Jean Sibelius was commissioned by the Helsinki Philharmonics to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius. The work was world premiered in Helsingfors 7th Dec...

Concerto In Pieces was commissioned by the BBC as a celebration of two major events in British history of music: the 1995 tercentenary of the death of Henry Purcell and the 50th anniversary of Benjami...

This short orchestral piece is a tone poem based on a passage from one of Hans Christian Andersen's lesser known fairytales, THE WIND TELLS ABOUT WALDEMAR DAAE AND HIS DAUGHTERS, a mighty allegory abo...

A second Symphony by Ruders, commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for the New York City based chamber orchestra, Riverside Symphony. The piece is subtitle...

Premiered by The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, 10th June 2004. Orchestration 3 Flutes, 3rd dbl. Piccolo 2 Oboes 1 English Horn...

Symphony No. 5 by Poul Ruders. Commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestrafor World Premiere on January 9, 2015.

Programme Note Poul Ruders WIND-DRUMMING WIND-DRUMMING was written in 1979 on a commission from The Danish Percussion Ensemble. The piece is a clash of two kinds of sound-associations; the mystic, exo...

Group Portrait With Smetana by Poul Ruders is a short symphonic entertainment commissioned and written for Bamberger Symphoniker - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie in 2014.

The name or title alone says it all: a piece of music where courtly elegance embraces soulful melancholy, a world where velvety symphonic twilight and the majestically striding dance of the Baroque, t...

orchestration: 2. 2. 2. 2/4. 2. 3. 1/2perc/hp/pf(cel)/str. Words by Edgar Allen Poe.

This piece is part of a trilogy of compositions from Poul Ruders, all dealing with Latin American rhythms and percussion instruments. The red-thread rhythm of this piece is that of the classic cuban C...

Hailstorm Rising - A drill for thirteen snare Drums by Poul Ruders (2014). Commissioned by and dedicated to Percurama and Gert Mortensen.

Hailstorm Rising - A drill for thirteen snare drums by Poul Ruders (2014). Commissioned by and dedicated to Percurama and Gert Mortensen.

This is the Vocal Score for The Handmaid's Tale, an Opera based on the novel by Margaret Atwood.

Editor's Choice - Nyere Danske Operaer - Danish opera singer Poul Elming has edited this collection of highlights from modern danish operas by Bo Holten, Poul Ruders, Andy Pape and Niels Marthinsen.