David Philip Hefti: spartiti difficile

Il testo di - Mutata vox - si basa su frammenti tratti dalle - Metamorfosi - di Ovidio (Libro IX, Ifis), selezionati e rielaborati in una nuova versione testuale. La narrazione originale è suddivisa i...

This work was composed shortly after the composer conducted Jürg Dähler and the Musikkollegium Winterthur in the world première of his Viola Concerto Cantabile in January 2021. Whole passages from Can...

Die '12 Fantasien' für Flöte solo entstanden 2015 im Auftrag der Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte und sind dem Flötisten Philipp Jundt gewidmet. Die Uraufführung durch den Widmungsträger fand im Rahmen der It...

Gallicinium, Music for the fourth nocturnal vigil for wind quintet, is the last of four compositions whose starting point is the Roman vigils of the church. The harmonies of this work alternate betwee...

In fliessenden Räumen (In Flowing Spaces) è stata composta nel 2026 su commissione della Camerata Variabile ed è dedicata alla sua direttrice artistica, Helena Winkelman. Il quartetto concepisce il su...

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...

In - Woven from Light - , due voci si incontrano all’interno di un campo scintillante di suoni e movimenti. Trame fluttuanti e fluttuanti si dispiegano in linee liriche che cercano, rispondono, rispec...

'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...

- Im Streiflicht - (in luce radente) è un’opera in un unico movimento che si sviluppa in un campo di tensione tra continuità e interruzione. Piani sonori mutevoli formano una trama in costante evoluzi...

David Philip Hefti hat das diesjährige Pflichtstück des Guadagnini-Violinwettbewerbs in Stuttgart komponiert. Im Anhang dieser Nachricht finden Sie Informationen zu diesem Werk. Bei Fragen zu dieser A...

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...

The song cycle 'E las culurs dals tuns' ('And the colours of sounds') was composed in 2017 to a commission by the Summer Music Days festival in Hitzacker. The cycle in twelve parts is a setting of Rom...

David Philip Hefti‘s fourth piano piece, 'Ritmico', is comprised of three fragmentary, individual movements. The focus of this brief work is on the rhythmic components of the music, leaving almost all...

Il pezzo per pianoforte descrive il crepuscolo, la notte, i sogni e l'insonnia con un carattere di base gentile. Questa calma viene bruscamente interrotta nella seconda parte del pezzo, precipitando d...

I brevi movimenti Elan, Resonanz, Vehemenz und Harmonie possono essere eseguiti come suite o come movimenti singoli. Sono stati eseguiti per la prima volta in occasione di una matinée per Tabea Zimmer...

The 'Cadenza and interludes' for the Sonata in a minor for solo flute (Wq 132) by C. P. E. Bach were written to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt, who gave the first performance of the work...

Le Cadenze e gli interludi sono stati scritti nel 2021 su commissione del flautista Philipp Jundt. Le brevi cadenze erano per lo più composte per un solo respiro, nello spirito di Quantz. Gli interlud...

'à la recherche...', for clarinet, viola and piano, gropes its way forward slowly, in a manner almost fragile, searching for a binding form for itself. Thus ever greater contrasts emerge between clear...

Whole passages from the Double Concerto Sechs Klanginseln have been wrested from their context, restructured and formed into a round dance. The result is a colourful mosaic that places the original mo...

'Mormorando', music for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, refers to individual movements of Elliott Carter's 'Eight etudes and a fantasy'. These two works were composed for the same ensemble, 70 year...