Hans Werner Henze

Soli, Chor und Orchester

Gemischter Chor und großes Orchester.

Gemischter Chor und großes Orchester.

When Hans Werner Henze received a commission to instrument early lieder by Richard Wagner at the end of the 1990s, he realised that he could not simply recreate the piano part in a scoring for classic...

When Hans Werner Henze received a commission to instrument early lieder by Richard Wagner at the end of the 1990s, he realised that he could not simply recreate the piano part in a scoring for classic...

The earliest and now obsolete version of this piece (first performed in Heidelberg, 1949) was scored for actors and orchestra. This revised version of 1964 has recast the actors' parts into roles for...

The earliest and now obsolete version of this piece (first performed in Heidelberg, 1949) was scored for actors and orchestra. This revised version of 1964 has recast the actors' parts into roles for...

Wörtlich übersetzt ist das Libretto ein 'kleines Buch', ein 'Büchlein'. Doch nicht irgendein Büchlein. Seit es Opern gibt, gibt es die Textbücher dazu. Oft erzählen die Universalsprache Musik und der...

Henze's Fünf Botschafen Für Die Königin Von Saba was commissioned by Radio France. It received its première on 3rd February 2005 at the Thé tre Des Champs-Élysées, Paris by the Orchestre National de F...

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...

Hans Werner Henze's Sebastian im Traum was commissioned by the Eduard van Beinum Stichting, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft, and the New York Philharmonic, and given its f...

This music is taken from the second act of my early opera King Stag. In the original, the aria - here rescored for the orchestra alone - is sung by the protagonist (tenor) who yearns to return to the...