Oliver Waespi: spartiti difficile

The crossing of a mountain pass is called traversada in Romansh. Such a crossing bears uncertainties and dangers, but also hope and new opportunities. Whoever sets out for a traversada is leaving behi...

The Spell' is a musical interpretation of an old legend from the Alpstein, a mystical mountain area in the east of Switzerland. According to the tale, a shepherd boy, Hennes, cared for his animals on...

The crossing of a mountain pass is called traversada in Romansh. Such a crossing bears uncertainties and dangers, but also hope and new opportunities. Whoever sets out for a traversada is leaving behi...

The Spell' is a musical interpretation of an old legend from the Alpstein, a mystical mountain area in the east of Switzerland. According to the tale, a shepherd boy, Hennes, cared for his animals on...

Eastbound wurde vom Siena Wind Orchestra in Tokio in Auftrag gegeben und kann als eine Art Stadterkundung verstanden werden. Das Stück beginnt mit massiven Akkorden, die in eine kompakte, ausgelassene...

Eastbound wurde vom Siena Wind Orchestra in Tokio in Auftrag gegeben und kann als eine Art Stadterkundung verstanden werden. Das Stück beginnt mit massiven Akkorden, die in eine kompakte, ausgelassene...

La "Suite per orchestra di fiati" è composta da tre parti. Il "Movimento sinfonico" introduttivo si basa su due idee musicali opposte. La prima è cromatica, mentre la seconda è armonizzata in modo piu...

Intrada pays homage to the vocal polyphony of Renaissance composer Johannes Wannenmacher. Waespi has successfully transmitted the musical integrity and strength of these vocal pieces to this new work...

This piece tells the story of a conflict between the communities in the valleys around Sörenberg, a village in Entlebuch in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. An old legend from the 14th century tells of an...

This piece tells the story of a conflict between the communities in the valleys around Sörenberg, a village in Entlebuch in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. An old legend from the 14th century tells of an...

Zu diesem Werk ist momentan ausschliesslich die Partitur erhältlich! - Programmhinweis des Komponisten: - Mein Stück 'Intrada' entstand im Auftrag der Regional Brass Band Bern zu deren 20-jährigem Jub...

Commissioned by the Stadtharmonie Zurich Oerlikon-Seebach for the 2005 WASBE Conference in Singapore

Commissioned by the Stadtharmonie Zurich Oerlikon-Seebach for the 2005 WASBE Conference in Singapore

Il titolo di questo brano deriva dal dipinto Sunrise with Sea Monsters del pittore inglese William Turner. L'ambiguità e il potere suggestivo del dipinto di Turner aprono grandi possibilità musicali....

Audivi Media Nocte is based on the eponymous motet by Thomas Tallis from the 16th Century - a work that holds great fascination for Oliver Waespi. During the process of composition, various chord sequ...

The music of 'Temples' evolved out of different sources of inspiration. The most impor-tant of them were four temples belonging to Angkor, a group of temple ruins in Cambo-dia. These temples represent...

The music of 'Temples' evolved out of different sources of inspiration. The most impor-tant of them were four temples belonging to Angkor, a group of temple ruins in Cambo-dia. These temples represent...

2nd Sinfonietta' was composed in 2005 for the 'Musikgesellschaft Cham' and is made up of three parts, each flowing into the next. The themes presented in the first movement migrate through the work an...

The 'Suite for Wind Orchestra' has three parts. The introductory 'Symphonic Movement' is based on two opposite musical ideas. The first is chromatic, whereas the second is rather diatonically harmoniz...

A Sinfonietta is a 'small symphony', so it is a composition that does not boast the length of a real symphony (although this could be the case) and so allows the composer to take some liberties. In th...