Musik unserer Zeit

17 Blasinstrumente (2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten in B, 2 Fagotte, 3 Hörner in F, 1 Trompete in D, 1 Trompeten in B, 2 Tenor-Posaunen, 1 Tuba)

Le contenu et la création formelle de Poem en deux mouvements prennent leur source de manière subjective dans le poème Stufen de Hermann Hesse. Le court motif qui revient à plusieurs reprises dans les...

Feldman's was a music shop in London in the early 20th century.They sold collections of popular music for playing at home, and some of these were called 'Feldman's Sixpenny Editions'. Collections like...

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The comm...

Gerald Barry uses Beethoven's only surviving love letter as the text for this richly scored, vivid and dramatic work for bass voice and ensemble.

Je ne parle pas français ; mais à l'époque, j'ai découvert que je pouvais dire des choses extraordinaires dans cette langue en utilisant des mots employés dans les deux langues. C'est ainsi qu'est né...

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which...

Solo-Violine (Viola), Bassklarinette, Tenor Horn (Posaune), Percussion, Klavier, E-Gitarre, Violoncello und Kontrabass

Soprano, bass clarinet, electric guitar, 2 violas, violoncello, contrabass

This beautifully expressive work for either clarinet or saxophone with piano demands great control and richness of sound from both performers.

Commissioned by Gavin Bryars' long-standing collaborators, ensemble Aventa, and with a libretto by author and poet Marilyn Bowering, Bryars' Marilyn Forever examines the inner life of Marilyn Monroe,...

Jörg Widmann dedicated 'Freie Stücke' to his teacher Wolfgang Rihm on his fiftieth birthday in 2002. The ten pieces for mixed ensemble or orchestra are 'inspired by the wish for concentration and redu...

Streicher und eine Sopranstimme oder Streicher allein.

stummer Schauspieler, Sprecherin, Cembalo, Mezzosopran, Gitarre, Bariton, Klavier, Elektronik (Live)

Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra's string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in an enigmatic, and un-published, 13 bar musical theme by Rich...

One of the movements in Scorched (arrangements of seventeen tunes by John Scofield for jazz trio and orchestra) has a coda, which repeats a dense, two-bar tag which sounded like it could be developed....

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of...