Seven miniatures based on texts by the poet of the same name for voice, flute and viola. Par HILLER WILFRIED. In this cycle, seven existentialist poems by the multi-faceted artist Hans-Henning von Voigt-Alastair are alternately combined with solo voice, duet and trio in a fascinating manner. The short miniatures were composed by Wilfried Hiller in memory of the eponymous poet in 1969, the year of …

Par DOVE JONATHAN. Man, Woman, Child by Jonathan Dove is an 18-minute song cycle with texts by Australian poet Judith Wright comprising of six songs for Mezzo-soprano, Baritone and Piano. They tell the story of a man, coming home from war, who meets a woman in a wine bar: it ends with the voice of the child that emerges from this union. Commissioned to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Samling Ins…

Par . Complètement inédit sur le territoire germanophone : Choral Music Composed by Women contient 47 œuvres pour chœur mixte, composées exclusivement par des femmes. Les compositrices ont de tout temps apporté des contributions importantes au répertoire choral. De nombreux joyaux méconnus pour chœur mixte attendent seulement d’être donnés. On trouve dans ce recueil des compositrices de la Renais…

Par SMITH PAUL. A beautiful and flowing work for SATB choir, SATB solo quartet and piano, with textures that celebrate love, cherishing our place among the stars. A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. The music and texts link to form a narrative that questions what sort of ‘New Wo…

Based on the sources ed. by Joachim Draheim. Fingerings and Notes on Fingering and Performance by Noriko Ishikawa and Manfred Kratzer Urtext Urtext - piano (4 hands) fingering: Ishikawa, Noriko fingering: Kratzer, Manfred editor: Draheim, Joachim notes: Kratzer, Manfred notes: Ishikawa, Noriko Robert Schumann's intention to create valuable and, with regard to didactics, sensibly created music for…

Par MATRE ORJAN. Ørjan Matre’s Trompeten, Nachts und Untergang is a 26-minute work for solo trumpet and choir (SSAATTBB). It is based on texts by the Austrian poet Georg Trakl and describes distant trumpet sounds, decaying castle ruins and icy lakes, in the spirit of German Romanticism. Trompeten, Nachts und Untergang (Trumpets, Night and Downfall) was premiered by Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing H…

Par WEIR JUDITH. This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cummings (O Sweet Spontaneous), William Carlos Williams (Peace on Earth) and Emily Dickinson (I reason, Earth is short ) - each reflecting on the Earth and mankind’s experience of livin…

The Bohemian composer Jan Krtitel Vanhal/Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) settled in Vienna around 1763. There he wrote several concertos for various instruments, of which two for viola have survived. Both are evidently not original compositions, but arrangements by Vanhal of some of his own works, a common practice of that time. The Viola Concerto in C major is based on Vanhal's cello concerto i…

Par BACRI NICOLAS. Two songs ('Chanson gaie' and 'Chanson triste') on texts by Paul Verlaine, commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with support from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. World premiere 'Emerging Voices Festival2020', Philadelphia, USA./ Répertoire / Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano et Piano