Ensemble

Written over a two year period from 2009-2010, and premiered in stages, the world premiere of the complete Oboe Quartet by Harrison Birtwistle took place at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in May 2...

Spielpartitur - Sopran und Violoncello

Contents: Thread suns - White and Light - Psalm - With Letter and Clock - An Eye, open - Todnauberg - Tenebrae - Night - Give the Word.

For Flute, Harp. Score and parts. Opus 73. 23 pages.

For Tenor, Viola, Cello. Classical. Score and parts. Opus 44. 16 pages.

For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Timpani, Piano.

Rejoicing silently and in a subdued manner, 'Missa paschalis', with its lyric melody and pleasantly austere sonority, tells of the topic of every celebration of Mass: of the hope of resurrection.Thank...

Rejoicing silently and in a subdued manner, 'Missa paschalis', with its lyric melody and pleasantly austere sonority, tells of the topic of every celebration of Mass: of the hope of resurrection.Thank...

The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this tech...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

The cycle of 27 lithographs on the Apocalypse of St. John created by Max Beckmann in his Dutch exile in 1941 inspired Benjamin Schweitzer to compose 27 musical 'sheets' as well. 'The pictures are fill...

Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) - Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These...