David Leisner

For High Voice and Guitar

Leisner was pleased to use poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver in his new cycle West Wind; taking its name from one of Oliver's collections. 'In recent years; diatonic and chromatic harmonic ap...

Taking its cues from the visual patterns in nature, Labyrinths contains five movements, each of which is a musical illumination of a moment in time. Repetition and slow evolution of the simple musical...

Lorsque le guitariste John Olson et la soprano Gioia De Cari m'ont demandé d'écrire un morceau pour eux, j'ai envisagé d'écrire quelque chose de théâtral qui conviendrait particulièrement à Gioia, qui...

SONATA FOR GUITAR

Flute and guitar duo; along with string quartet; perform three movements based on Sephardic folk songs. The common theme is love just out of reach: the sad hope of finding love; the unrequited love fo...

Commissioned by Symphony Space; Ghosting is a concert work written for the impressive Brazil Guitar Duo by David Leisner; a master guitarist himself. Leisner says; 'The work begins and ends with harmo...

For 4 Guitars. Score and parts. Composed 1988. Duration 23:00.

For Violin and Guitar

Leisner has created masterful guitar accompaniments well-suited to the vocal lines of the famous De Falla vocal cycle. The seven songs (El Pano Moruno; Seguidilla murciana; Asturiana; Jota; Nana; Canc...

With a lone cello and four percussionists; Leisner considers the horror and waste of war - the few who lust for power; the millions who suffer and die. A requiem mass is played by instruments; followe...

Leisner's settings of James Tate poems was written for the brilliant guitarist David Starobin and the equally distinguished baritone Patrick Mason; a musical collaboration of four decades in performan...

Leisner works wonders with just a baritone voice and a cello. Using a compositional style that has come upon him over the years; he has created a cycle of five songs of varied moods; based upon a Germ...

Contents: Beauty / Exultation / Humility / Letter / Madness / Simplicity.