Musik unserer Zeit

Mit dieser fünfsätzigen Sinfonie hat sich der Komponist sieben Jahre beschäftigt. Sie wurde im Auftrag der Münchner Philharmoniker komponiert und 1995 unter der Leitung des Komponisten in München urau...

Many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions are distinguished by deeply Slavonic feeling and thrilling virtuoso displays. Even though Shchedrin has won recognition all over the world for his work, he rema...

Many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions are distinguished by deeply Slavonic feeling and thrilling virtuoso displays. Even though Shchedrin has won recognition all over the world for his work, he rema...

A string quartet written in the late twentieth century which acknowledges the classical four movement model may seem a quaintly old-fashioned approach, but I wanted to see if my own concerns for colou...

Hans Werner Henze has composed several film scores for Volker Schlöndorff's literary adaptations. 'In 1966 I wrote the music of Volker Schlöndorff's first film Der junge Törless. I then thought the so...

Im Jahre 1966 schrieb ich die Musik zu Volker Schlöndorffs erstem Film Der junge Törless. Ich dachte mir, der Klang der alten, frühen Instrumente, die ich wählte, könnte als Metapher für das frühe Una...

Ramifications represents a further development of my method of composition with complex musical net-formations; it is, as it were, a terminus in the development from dense and static to broken-up and...

Ramifications represents a further development of my method of composition with complex musical net-formations; it is, as it were, a terminus in the development from dense and static to broken-up and...