Musik unserer Zeit

Immerse yourself in the expressive world of choral music with "Liebeslied", an evocative work for mixed choir (SATB) and instruments, published by the renowned Ars Viva. This moving piece blends emoti...

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...

Flöte (Piccolo), 3 Saxophone (Alt, Tenor, Bariton), 3 Trompeten in C, 2 Posaunen, Bass Posaune, Horn in F, Klavier (oder Syntesizer), Bass Gitarre

3 Saxophone (ATB), Flügelhorn, Posaune, Klavier, Schlagzeug, Violine, E-Gitarre und Bass-Gitarre.

Bariton, Violoncello und Orchester

The model for this piece is a largely unknown minuet for piano, a study by Schubert in strict Baroque harmony and counterpoint, in some sense an example of Schubert's appreciation and reception of Bac...

The work explores something of how we might experience winter. The title is a play on words and the normal meaning of reels as dances infects both the first movement, with its lilting triplet rhythms,...

Experience a fascinating masterpiece of the musical avant-garde with "Cori di Didone" (from "La terra promessa"). This extraordinary work unfolds an incomparable emotional depth and sonic finesse thro...

Release is part of a BBC 2 film series on British composers. Each of the portrayed composers was asked to write a work around which the film was built. Both the musical piece and the film Release refl...

Commissioned by Gavin Bryars' long-standing collaborators, ensemble Aventa, and with a libretto by author and poet Marilyn Bowering, Bryars' Marilyn Forever examines the inner life of Marilyn Monroe,...

This beautifully expressive work for either clarinet or saxophone with piano demands great control and richness of sound from both performers.

Soprano, bass clarinet, electric guitar, 2 violas, violoncello, contrabass

No. 42 (In the Alps) could perhaps best be described as a melodrama. It combines many of the subjects that fascinate me: the relationship of text narrative and musical narrative, the history of opera,...

Gerald Barry uses Beethoven's only surviving love letter as the text for this richly scored, vivid and dramatic work for bass voice and ensemble.