Musik unserer Zeit

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...

My Concerto for Orchestra (2007) is a twenty-minute work in which different sections of the orchestra, as well as individual solos and duos from within the orchestra, are highlighted as the music unfo...

Du jazz virtuose sous forme classique : Nikolai Kapustin (né en 1937) est un excellent pianiste de jazz, arrangeur et compositeur. Ses oeuvres techniquement exigeantes entre musique moderne et jazz so...

Gerald Barry's new opera is based on Lewis Carroll's two beloved books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry's last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being E...

This most frequently played orchestral work by Aribert Reimann quotes from and makes use of Robert Schumann's last finished composition, the so-called 'Geistervariationen' [Ghost Variations] in E flat...

The brief Fantasia gregoriana, op.65, is based on the Gregorian Easter Hallelujah. Like a mosaic, the individual heterogenic episodes, lyrical, dance-like, hymnal and dramatic in turn, are combined th...

Emotional depth and riveting virtuosity - these elements are what characterise many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin...

It was at the suggestion of the conductor of the World Première, Mariss Jansons, that Jörg Widmann refers to musical characteristics of Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphony. His starting points primarily...

The Left-Hander - a popular Russian grotesque about Russian and Englishmen, new technologies, old traditions and hard liquor - in the form of a two-act opera.

Mit seinem Orchesterwerk Armonica begibt sich Jörg Widmann auf die Suche nach der Harmonie. Klänge wie von einer Glasharmonika bestimmen Anfang und Ende des Stücks. In seinem Verlauf weitet sich das W...

Gustav Mahler's Symphony Nr. 10 is the last and only unfinished symphony in his complete oeuvre. On 5 September 1910 Mahler wrote his last notes: exactly 100 years later, the 23-year-old conductor and...

Das Orchesterstück Melodien habe ich 1971 komponiert. Ich versuchte, die dichte Mikropolyphonie meiner Musiksprache aufzulockern, transparenter zu machen. Im Grunde genommen blieb ich treu zu meinem f...

The great Greek composer Theodorakis (who turns 90 in 2015) worked on this lyric tragedy for years, in his house opposite the Acropolis, and, according to him, immersed himself in the universal harmon...

Translation into Modern Greek by Mikis Theodorakis Libretto by Mikis Theodorakis

INHALT Aribert Reimanns 'Trilogie lyrique' beruht auf drei Stücken von Maurice Maeterlinck: Im ersten Stück L'Intruse sitzt eine Familie am Tisch um den blinden Großvater. Man wartet auf den Arzt, der...