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With Perplexities after Escher, Graham Waterhouse has created an unusual chamber music work for heckelphone, string quartet and double bass. Inspired by early graphics by M. C. Escher's early graphic...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Lieder des Abschieds op. 14 were composed in 1920–1921, immediately after his most famous opera Die tote Stadt and in close proximity to the Piano Quintet, op. 15. The close...

The Sonata for clarinet, viola, horn and piano, op. 37 was composed in 1920 (at the latest). The violist Michael Balling, a friend of Johanna Senfter, wrote to the composer about the work, which he ha...

Zimmermann’s original Konfigurationen are of course influenced by Anton Webern’s structural thinking, but draw their tonal charm to a large extent from the highly nuanced handling of resonances throug...

When Richard Wagner arrived in Paris in September 1839, he had grand plans: Paris was to help him achieve his international breakthrough as an opera composer. But these hopes proved all too soon to be...

When Richard Wagner arrived in Paris in September 1839, he had grand plans: Paris was to help him achieve his international breakthrough as an opera composer. But these hopes proved all too soon to be...

Written on Kihnu Island, where I am from, this piece is dedicated to Ensemble Floridante. Altum – Latin for "depth, vastness, height, the profound" – holds multiple meanings, each unfolding in its own...

Scent Dance V joins four other works by composer Xuntian He under the same title, which he wrote for different instruments. In addition to works for clarinet solo, viola solo, violoncello solo, piano...

The Tower and the Garden is a setting of three poems for choir and string quartet. The texts juxtapose the dangers of technological hubris (the tower) and the need for a place of refuge (the garden) i...

All Is Now reflects upon our current moment in time and the importance of relationships and priorities in life - the importance of 'now'.  It was written during the height of the coronavirus pandemic,...

Air in Motion, for flute and string quartet, is in four contrasting movements. The first movement is a short, fast, rhythmic prelude where the strings and flute echo each other’s changing rhythmic pul...

I am very thankful to John and Jan as they have commissioned many works from me for Present Music. This has been extremely instrumental in my creative relationship to prosper with Kevin and Present Mu...

Having been interested in Mahayana Buddhism for a number of years, I went to a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York to study meditation in 1999. One evening, while walking alone by the side of the l...