Piano Excerpts

Soli, Chor und Orchester

Bach's cantata "Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist" BWV 45 belongs to a group of cantatas from 1726, for the texts of which Bach drew on a cantata composed for Meiningen a good 20 years earlier. T...

possibly composed during the Weimar period (1708-1717)

Hasse's opera from 1731 can be considered the pinnacle of his work to date - not least because the composer integrated some of the best arias from his earlier works into "Cleofide". The antique theme...

The original version of the Missa Sancti Nicolai Tolentini (1768), edited for the first time, is Johann Michael Haydn's first major church music work composed in Salzburg. The Nicolai Mass corresponds...

The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new w...

Greek is a translation of the Oedipus myth into the contemporary East End of London. Racism, violence and mass unemployment appear as metaphors for the plague that afflicts London, and form the backgr...

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...

Solo, Sprecher, Chor und Orchester

Soli, Chor und Orchester

The earliest and now obsolete version of this piece (first performed in Heidelberg, 1949) was scored for actors and orchestra. This revised version of 1964 has recast the actors' parts into roles for...

Soli, Chor und Orchester

Soli, Chor und Orchester - Klavierauszug - englisch / deutsch