David Philip Hefti

This work was composed in 2017 to a commission from the CAMERATA BERN and is dedicated to the violinist Antje Weithaas. The world première took place on 14 May 2017 in the Paul Klee Centre, with the C...

'Prima nocte', Music for the first nocturnal vigil for chamber orchestra, is the first of four compositions to refer to the Roman vigils. This work utilises quartertone harmonies and revolves around t...

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Cantabile, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, is an extensive work that makes use of many of the virtues and clichés of the viola (leisureliness, melancholy, gloominess etc.), but that also refutes t...

Final(ment)e, Interplay of relationships for two trumpets and orchestra, was composed as an atmospheric counterpart to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Several quotations from that monumental work flowed...

Zerrissene Stille è stato scritto nel 2025 per la Zug Sinfonietta ed è dedicato alla memoria di Wolfgang Rihm. Dopo l'ottavo quartetto per archi Gesänge der Sehnsucht, Zerrissene Stille è la seconda c...

The sixth string quartet 'Five scenes for Gustav' was composed in 2020 to a commission from the Amaryllis Quartet, to whom it is also dedicated. The five movements can be performed as preludes to Davi...

At the End of Time, String Quartet No. 7, è stato composto per una serata di balletto con il quartetto d'archi di Schubert Death and the Maiden. Oltre alle citazioni alienate, questa musica di lutto è...

I Quattro Momenti "giocoso", "folle", "nascosto" e "trasfigurato" per flauto e orchestra d'archi sono stati composti nello stile della Suite orchestrale n. 2 in si minore BWV 1067 di Bach. Diverse cit...

The Six sound islands were composed for a concert programme entitled 'Reigen' (round dance) that the composer curated, and were intended to provide an atmospheric bridge between dances by Ligeti, Bart...

'Songs of sorrow, songs of joy' is a homage to John Dowland. What is perhaps his most intimate lute song, 'In darkness let me dwell', is heard in full in this Viola Concerto in orchestral apparel, tho...

I Cinque Concertini per Orchestra d'Archi sono un omaggio ad Antonio Vivaldi, che ha composto oltre 500 concerti solistici. L'opera è composta da cinque micro-concertini per i cinque principali dell'o...

This Fanfare for Wolfgang, for solo piccolo trumpet, was composed to celebrate the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Rihm. What could be better suited as his 70th-birthday greeting than a fanfare?

Whole passages from the Double Trumpet Concerto Final(ment)e have been wrested from their context, restructured and formed into a coda. The result is a colourful mosaic that places the original motive...

In un momento in cui il clima sociale del mondo è sempre più in pericolo di essere messo fuori strada dall'aggressione, sembra che abbiamo bisogno di Harmonia, la dea greca dell'armonia, per l'equilib...

At a time when our social climate increasingly threatens to be thrown off kilter by the aggression we are experiencing in the world, it would seem that we are more than ever in need of Harmonia, the G...