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I wanted to write a companion piece for Tiger Dancing, which was written for the choreographer Henri Oguike and his company. Although Eternity's Sunrise was written for the concert hall rather than th...

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The comm...

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of...

The starting point was the collected letters of Vincent van Gogh. In spite of the tragedies for which van Gogh is best known, his letters are filled with joyous exuberance for the practical considerat...

I don't speak French but realised I could say grand things in this language using words common to French and English. This is how L'Agitation des Observateurs, Le Tremblement des Voyeurs came about. I...

Jon Lord dedicated the Suite for string orchestra to Sir Malcolm Arnold who is portrayed in the first movement. Another two musical pictures (his mother and an old friend) make the study of analogies...

I: für Saiteninstrumente und Schlagzeug - II: für Streichquartett oder Streichinstrumente - III: für Kammerensemble (und Stimme ad libitum) - IV: für Orchester

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When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered 'That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald...

When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered 'That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald...

King Leontes Eifersuchtsanfall führt zum Tod seiner ergebenen Ehefrau Hermione, kurz nachdem sie geboren hat. Leontes will das Baby töten lassen, doch viele Jahre später kommt die Wahrheit wie ein Kro...

King Leontes Eifersuchtsanfall führt zum Tod seiner ergebenen Ehefrau Hermione, kurz nachdem sie geboren hat. Leontes will das Baby töten lassen, doch viele Jahre später kommt die Wahrheit wie ein Kro...

Oper in zwei Teilen

Oper in zwei Teilen

Libretto nach Gozzi von Heinz von Cramer.

Libretto nach Gozzi von Heinz von Cramer.

Shchedrin has turned these well-known piano pieces into contemporary orchestral works without losing any of their verve and flavour. The transcriptions are based on movements in A minor, and in D majo...

Shchedrin has turned these well-known piano pieces into contemporary orchestral works without losing any of their verve and flavour. The transcriptions are based on movements in A minor, and in D majo...

As one of Wales' leading young composers, Huw Watkins was the ideal choice to write a new work to mark the 60th birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales. The choice of work was an easy one for Watkins who...