Musik unserer Zeit

A special tribute is paid to the great musician Rostropovich with 'bells ringing out in celebration', as indicated in the subtitle to the score, and with the fact that in the bombastic final section o...

Symphony No. 6 was created in the late 1960s, and was first performed in Havana on 26. November 1969 by the Cuban National Orchestra under my direction. This symphony reflects not only the excited atm...

Ich wandere durch diesen alten Ort, einsam, einem Geiste gleich. Die letzten Worte des Gedichts 'Noche de verano' ('Sommernacht') von Antonio Machado geben die unheimliche Atmosphäre wieder, die Luigi...

Immerse yourself in a captivating masterpiece of the musical avant-garde: "Composizione per orchestra No. 2", bearing the evocative subtitle "Diario polacco '58", is a powerful and profound testament...

The work is based on a tune called The Nag written by the jazz guitarist/composer John Scofield, of whom I have long been a fan and with whom I worked closely when writing Blood on the Floor (Mark-Ant...

No. 37b is a suite of four short pieces for orchestra. Like many of the composer's works the subject matter revolves around death and after life. Featuring some of the composer's most chaotic and fren...

Maxwell Davies' 'Das Rauschende der Farbe' (The Sound of Colour) is a reflection on the life and work of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker who died aged 31 in 1907. Maxwell Davies first got to...

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll für Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow l...

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...