Musik unserer Zeit

Hans Werner Henze used original music by Scarlatti, Handel and Vivaldi to evoke the baroque lifestyle for a TV film of José Montes-Baquer based on the novella 'Concierto Barocco' by the Cuban Alejo Ca...

Mezzo-Sopran und 4 Schlagzeuger

17 Blasinstrumente (2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten in B, 2 Fagotte, 3 Hörner in F, 1 Trompete in D, 1 Trompeten in B, 2 Tenor-Posaunen, 1 Tuba)

Hummel's piece for solo violoncello and 13 strings follows Hermann Hesse's famous poem 'Stufen' ('Steps') with regard to form and content. Hummel, a cellist himself, arranges the solo part with playin...

Feldman's was a music shop in London in the early 20th century.They sold collections of popular music for playing at home, and some of these were called 'Feldman's Sixpenny Editions'. Collections like...

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The comm...

Gerald Barry uses Beethoven's only surviving love letter as the text for this richly scored, vivid and dramatic work for bass voice and ensemble.

I don't speak French but realised I could say grand things in this language using words common to French and English. This is how L'Agitation des Observateurs, Le Tremblement des Voyeurs came about. I...

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which...

Solo-Violine (Viola), Bassklarinette, Tenor Horn (Posaune), Percussion, Klavier, E-Gitarre, Violoncello und Kontrabass

Soprano, bass clarinet, electric guitar, 2 violas, violoncello, contrabass

This beautifully expressive work for either clarinet or saxophone with piano demands great control and richness of sound from both performers.

Commissioned by Gavin Bryars' long-standing collaborators, ensemble Aventa, and with a libretto by author and poet Marilyn Bowering, Bryars' Marilyn Forever examines the inner life of Marilyn Monroe,...

Jörg Widmann dedicated 'Freie Stücke' to his teacher Wolfgang Rihm on his fiftieth birthday in 2002. The ten pieces for mixed ensemble or orchestra are 'inspired by the wish for concentration and redu...

Streicher und eine Sopranstimme oder Streicher allein.

stummer Schauspieler, Sprecherin, Cembalo, Mezzosopran, Gitarre, Bariton, Klavier, Elektronik (Live)

Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra's string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in an enigmatic, and un-published, 13 bar musical theme by Rich...