Christian Jost

Jost's piano quartet is an homage to the outstanding Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and his adaptations of three Shakespeare tragedies ('Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Macbeth'). Although 'Spinnwebwald...

'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost...

Jost has set to music 'Melancholy' and 'Afternoon', two tender poems by Kiki Dimoula, the most important contemporary Greek lyricist. Combining the human voice with the sound of a string quartet, he t...

Rumor Images' sind etwa ein Jahr nach der Urauführung meiner Oper 'Rumor' entstanden und bilden eine für Solocello und Klavier komponierte Konzentration des ersten Bildes. Eine aus Gerüchten wachsende...

Il trio Pieces of a Dream, della durata di meno di 40 minuti, è musica da camera compressa nello spirito di un classico trio jazz con l'obiettivo di improvvisare su tre diverse sequenze di sogni, sost...

Portrait II ist ein virtuoses Werk, das aber auch die besondere Kantabilität des Instruments zur Wirkung bringt. Für Konzert und Wettbewerb empfohlen.

Christian Jost spent the summer of 1987 in an Indian reservation in Arizona. Impressed by the foreign culture and deeply moved by the visit of a Native American burial site, he composed - apart from o...

lautlos ist im Umfeld von Christian Josts Choroper Angst - 5 Pforten einer Reise in das Innere der Angst entstanden. So basiert auch lautlos auf einer Stimmung des Ungewissen, Suchenden, ja sogar Resi...

My work lautlos II for solo cello further explores the idea of an inner dialogue between the performer and his or her instrument, in a manner similar to my previous work lautlos I. The instrumentalist...

Le opere contemporanee che non richiedono accompagnamento sono sempre più richieste sia per le lezioni che per le esibizioni, i bis e i concorsi. Il piccolo lavoro inedito di Christian Jost del 1989 è...

'Zauberei, Magie, Mythen, Legenden, dies sind die großen Themen barocker Opern - Ausdruck der Sehnsucht jener Zeit, sich durch die Illusion der Oper dem Phantastischen hingeben zu können. Diese unverk...

Every player may imagine a wishful portrait for this short elegiac piece. Musically inspired by contrasting works such as 'Portrait for Tracy' by the jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and the Saraband in D...

On the poem by the same name by E.E.Cummings.

The richly varied concert piece shows how well the composer, himself a brilliant piano player, knows how to use the instrument. His polyphonic, complex compositional style gives way to various possibi...