Alexander Goehr : Partitions difficile

'Broken Psalm' was commissioned by Cambridge University to celebrate their 800th anniversary and first performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College in 2009. Goehr, who was Professor of music at...

'During the rehearsals for Schlussgesang for viola and orchestra performed at the 1997 Aldeburgh Festival, I conceived of the title of this present composition, with its internal rhyme, as an appropri...

Ariel, Sing est une œuvre lyrique et fluide pour flûte alto solo, jouée pour la première fois par la célèbre flûtiste Clara Rees lors de la présentation de Sing, Ariel, un recueil d'essais et de pensé...

'Broken Lute, six pieces for violin alone', is written on a Chinese Ming story, 'The Minister, The Lute and the Woodcutter' from which Goehr has extracted key sentences and placed them at particular p...

Goehr brings an ancient world to life in his setting of eight texts by Hesiod and Homer. Translated into English by Dorothy Wilder and the composer, this song cycle uses the classic stories of Prometh...

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gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Trompete in D

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

Composée de deux mouvements - le premier lent et lyrique, le second basé sur le principe du scherzo et trio - cette pièce, remarquablement contrastée et très exigeante du point de vue technique, offre...

Warngedichte' (Poèmes de mise en garde) d'Alexander Goehr est une composition sur les poèmes du même nom de son ami, le poète Erich Fried. Cette nouvelle édition fait découvrir l'œuvre, écrite en 1967...

Completed in 1964, this deeply moving work sets poems by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The work brings Anne Frank's diaries to mind, highlighting the tragedy that children's persp...

Goehr's new work for orchestra, based on Bach's chorale Durch Adams Fall ist alles Verderbt, is the latest in the composer's oeuvre to reflect on great music of the past. My own composition might be d...

These refreshingly direct songs set texts by Ovid, translated into English, conjure up the poet's vivid imagery and the strange ceremonies he describes.