Thomas Daniel Schlee

Joy over that which was received. The cantilena’s melodic parts join together in prayer, where thanks and plea unite: in the "tone" of humility, for the praised God is near.

Three poems by the French lyricist Louis Amade, known for his texts for Edith Piaf and Gilbert Bécaud, form the basis for a series of pictograms of human emotional states. While keeping to singeable m...

Three poems by the French lyricist Louis Amade, known for his texts for Edith Piaf and Gilbert Bécaud, provide the basis for a "sequence of images" of human emotional worlds. While retaining a cantabi...

Psalm 128 praises a life devoted to God, but also praises the family. The work strives to depict the bright striding along this path. The images of the text are set to music by various modal reinterpr...

Psalm 128 is a praise of a life pleasing to God, but also a praise of the family. The work aims to depict the joyful striding along this path. Various modal interpretations of the diatonic scale go ha...

1. Magnificat - 2. Stabat Mater

The first piece "Sicut ros Hermon" (like the dew of Hermon, Ps. 133) meditates on the flow of God's grace, whereby the initial, slowly descending harmonic sequences develop into an emphatic song, foll...

The composer Thomas Daniel Schlee writes about his piano piece "Sursum chordis corda": "The third movement of my Second Symphony bears the title "Sursum corda", that liturgical call to lift up our hea...

The intimate atmosphere of the first of the 'Trois Poèmes' op. 66 is evoked here in a purely instrumental form - technically easily accessible, with an expressive melodic and corresponding harmonic tr...

The intimate atmosphere of the first of the 'Trois Poèmes' op. 66 is evoked here in a purely instrumental form - technically easily accessible, with an expressive melodic and corresponding harmonic tr...

Im Gregorianischen Gesang ist ein Jubilus'' die aus der Freude geborene melismatische Fortspinnung und Ausschmückung einer Gesangslinie. Dieses Trio beruht auf zwei kontrastierenden Elementen: Zwei St...

World premiere on October 3, 2007 in Neuberg an der Mürz (Austria): kunsthaus muerz, JESS-Trio

World premiere of the first version on January 28, 1993 in Linz, ORF concert at the Landesstudio Oberösterreich: Bruckner Quartet (Heinz Haunold, Mario Seriakov, Walter Haas, Elisabeth Bauer)

A suite whose movements always deliver something other than what they seem to promise. But throughout, the two instruments and respectively their players act like two people in very specific situation...

A suite whose movements always deliver more than they seem to promise. However, the two instruments and their interpreters always behave like two people in very specific situations: I.: The opening mo...

In a wide-reaching form the music develops increasing density in texture, dynamics und sound quality. The work can be performed as an anthemic coda together with the 'Cantus' requiring the same instru...