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Hosokawa composed this ten-minute, one-movement piece for the chamber music festival in Kuhmo (Finland). The players need to be familiar with modern playing techniques. If this requirement of modern p...

Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...

In this work, the instruments weave an innocent texture of sound, as if they were women knitting together in silence, with the magical atmosphere created from their handiwork. The sounds, like plants,...

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Wilfried Brennecke und den Wittener Kammermusiktagen gewidmet

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Also known as BEACH BIRDS or EXTENDED LULLABY

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Stellinetta für 6 Instrumentalisten und Tonband - Klar, Pos, Git-E, Vc, Klav (Cel), Schlgz

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

Jost's piano quartet is an homage to the outstanding Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and his adaptations of three Shakespeare tragedies ('Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Macbeth'). Although 'Spinnwebwald...

'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost...

Jost has set to music 'Melancholy' and 'Afternoon', two tender poems by Kiki Dimoula, the most important contemporary Greek lyricist. Combining the human voice with the sound of a string quartet, he t...

Die Sonate in G-Dur von Franz Xaver Richter wurde den 'VI Sonate da camera a Cembalo obligato, Flauto traverso o Violino concertato e Violoncello' entnommen. Die Aussetzung des teilweise bezifferten B...

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