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Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

Mikis Theodorakis' libretto for Antigonae is based on Sophocles' tragedy of the same name, but also incorporates sections of 'Seven against Thebes' by Aeschylus and 'The Phoenicians' by Euripides. The...

It was at the suggestion of the conductor of the World Première, Mariss Jansons, that Jörg Widmann refers to musical characteristics of Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphony. His starting points primarily...

I. Frösche wünschen sich einen König. Sie mißverstehen die Warnung Jupiters vor diesem dummen Wunsch, darauf schickt er ihnen einen Kranich, der sie frißt. II. Früher konnten die Krähen wunderschön si...

Release is part of a BBC 2 film series on British composers. Each of the portrayed composers was asked to write a work around which the film was built. Both the musical piece and the film Release refl...

Written in 2010 for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wigglesworth's nine-minute work explores the idea of perpetuum mobile (continuous movement) in seven connected, miniature inventions. A regular pu...

I wanted to write a companion piece for Tiger Dancing, which was written for the choreographer Henri Oguike and his company. Although Eternity's Sunrise was written for the concert hall rather than th...

The starting point was the collected letters of Vincent van Gogh. In spite of the tragedies for which van Gogh is best known, his letters are filled with joyous exuberance for the practical considerat...

Jon Lord dedicated the Suite for string orchestra to Sir Malcolm Arnold who is portrayed in the first movement. Another two musical pictures (his mother and an old friend) make the study of analogies...

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When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered 'That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald...

When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered 'That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald...

King Leontes Eifersuchtsanfall führt zum Tod seiner ergebenen Ehefrau Hermione, kurz nachdem sie geboren hat. Leontes will das Baby töten lassen, doch viele Jahre später kommt die Wahrheit wie ein Kro...

King Leontes Eifersuchtsanfall führt zum Tod seiner ergebenen Ehefrau Hermione, kurz nachdem sie geboren hat. Leontes will das Baby töten lassen, doch viele Jahre später kommt die Wahrheit wie ein Kro...

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