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In Nelly Sachs' poem, the butterfly stands as a traditional symbol of transience and hope for the beauty of the afterlife. The setting traces the melancholic and yet light mood in finely chiselled mel...

Written in the 1970s, Dieter Schnebel's arrangements of the Contrapuncti I, VI and XI from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue have long since been considered classics of contemporary choral musi...

Written in the 1970s, Dieter Schnebel's arrangements of the Contrapuncti I, VI and XI from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue have long since been considered classics of contemporary choral musi...

When you come to a river... place your hand into its belly, feel the energy, stroke its power, says the poem by American author Laura Tohe, who grew up in the Navajo tradition. Thierry Péocu accompani...

Stimmensatz solistisch

There is a sense of unease in the imagined landscape of John Casken’s Misted Land, as familiar shapes take on a new and sometimes grotesque and frightening appearance. Fragments of folk-like melodies...

The inspiration behind Stolen Songs comes from the story of German violinist Alois Rosetz and his Latvian wife, Solomea Graudan - two artists whose lives and careers in Berlin were tragically erased....

With the Eight Fragments Bertold Hummel has successfully created a most impressive work. Uncommonly concentrated in the evoking of atmosphere and reflecting the texts strongly, these dark grey songs -...

The first movement of my Piano Quintet is filled with drama and passion. Its atmosphere can be related to my Second Symphony Johannes Angelos. The second movement is a set of polyphonic variations in...

Jörg Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens cultural program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is...

Knights of the strange is a work of music poetry, where a few words highlight the speculative/poetic connections between dreams, reality and reflection. The duo version is like an independent plant wh...

Even with its instrumentation which may seem unusual at first glance, the spirit and symphonic character of the pioneering work is preserved. Although the piece does not provide a direct opportunity f...

The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Faz?l Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, an...

As most of my instrumental pieces, Joyce is also based on a literary source. My first string quartet (Korrespondenz) transferred the correspondence between Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at time...

Nikolai Kapustin is considered a pioneer of the Soviet jazz scene. His music combines typical idioms of jazz with classical forms. The Trio op. 86 for flute, violoncello and piano from 1998 is one of...

The text for my work Taivaanvalot is composed of fragments of a story appearing in the Kalevala – a collection of Finnish heroic folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884). As much of it is sim...