Musik unserer Zeit

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...

I. Frösche wünschen sich einen König. Sie mißverstehen die Warnung Jupiters vor diesem dummen Wunsch, darauf schickt er ihnen einen Kranich, der sie frißt. II. Früher konnten die Krähen wunderschön si...

gemischter Chor (SATB), 2 Klaviere, Bläser und Pauken - Studienpartitur

Mezzosopran, Tenor und Instrumentalgruppen (15 Spieler)

The making of El Cimarrón began in about 1986, with a conversation I had with Hans Magnus Enzensberger about the difficulties of writing political songs today that would go beyond the achievements of...

Kammerchor, Posaune, 2 Violoncelli, Kontrabass, Portativ, Schlagwerk und Pauken.

Knabenstimme oder einstimmigen Knabenchor und 9 Soloinstrumente

In my ballet Orpheus, a full symphony orchestra is employed. Woodwind, brass and percussion represent Apollo, the god-sent Master of the Muses who has handed over to Orpheus the Power of Music. The (o...

In my ballet Orpheus, a full symphony orchestra is employed. Woodwind, brass and percussion represent Apollo, the god-sent Master of the Muses who has handed over to Orpheus the Power of Music. The (o...

Henze also wrote the music of the successful film Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, co-produced by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta from the novel by Heinrich Böll: 'Böll's novella is...

Hans Werner Henze used original music by Scarlatti, Handel and Vivaldi to evoke the baroque lifestyle for a TV film of José Montes-Baquer based on the novella 'Concierto Barocco' by the Cuban Alejo Ca...