Musik unserer Zeit

Ich wandere durch diesen alten Ort, einsam, einem Geiste gleich. Die letzten Worte des Gedichts 'Noche de verano' ('Sommernacht') von Antonio Machado geben die unheimliche Atmosphäre wieder, die Luigi...

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...

Commissioned by the BBC to inaugurate Birmingham's Symphony Hall on 12 June 1991, the sense of optimism surrounding that event is exactly mirrored in Momentum's long melodic lines and vibrant rhythms,...

The work is based on a tune called The Nag written by the jazz guitarist/composer John Scofield, of whom I have long been a fan and with whom I worked closely when writing Blood on the Floor (Mark-Ant...

No 37b est une suite de quatre courtes pièces pour orchestre. Comme beaucoup d'œuvres du compositeur, leur sujet tourne aussi autour de la vie et de la vie après la mort. Se distinguant par quelques m...

Das Rauschende der Farbe' (Le bruissement de la couleur) de Maxwell Davies est une réflexion sur la vie et l'œuvre de l'artiste allemande Paula Modersohn-Becker, décédée en 1907 à l'âge de 31 ans. C'e...

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll für Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow l...

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...