Alexander Goehr: spartiti difficile

'Broken Psalm' was commissioned by Cambridge University to celebrate their 800th anniversary and first performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College in 2009. Goehr, who was Professor of music at...

'During the rehearsals for Schlussgesang for viola and orchestra performed at the 1997 Aldeburgh Festival, I conceived of the title of this present composition, with its internal rhyme, as an appropri...

Ariel, Sing è un'opera liricamente fluida per flauto contralto solo, eseguita per la prima volta dalla rinomata flautista Clara Rees in occasione della presentazione di Sing, Ariel, una raccolta di sa...

'Broken Lute, six pieces for violin alone', is written on a Chinese Ming story, 'The Minister, The Lute and the Woodcutter' from which Goehr has extracted key sentences and placed them at particular p...

Goehr brings an ancient world to life in his setting of eight texts by Hesiod and Homer. Translated into English by Dorothy Wilder and the composer, this song cycle uses the classic stories of Prometh...

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gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Trompete in D

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

Consisting of two movements, the first slow and lyrical, and the second based on a scherzo and trio principle, this delightfully contrasted and technically challenging piece would be the perfect conte...

Alexander Goehr's Warngedichte (Warning Poems) are settings of poems of the same name by a poet and friend of the composer Erich Fried. Composed in 1967, this new edition brings the work to new perfor...

Completed in 1964, this deeply moving work sets poems by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The work brings Anne Frank's diaries to mind, highlighting the tragedy that children's persp...

Goehr's new work for orchestra, based on Bach's chorale Durch Adams Fall ist alles Verderbt, is the latest in the composer's oeuvre to reflect on great music of the past. My own composition might be d...

These refreshingly direct songs set texts by Ovid, translated into English, conjure up the poet's vivid imagery and the strange ceremonies he describes.