The Bassarids (Die Bassariden)

Music drama in one act by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Commissioned by the Salzburger Festspiele

Period of composition 1964-65
Revised version 1992
Duration 120 minutes

The Bassarids (Die Bassariden)

Three Arias from the Opera “Elegy for Young Lovers”

(Drei Arien aus der Oper „Elegie für junge Liebende“)

For baritone and small orchestra

Year of composition 1960
Revised version 1993
Duration 14 minutes

I Among contemporary poets
II Good Titania
III

Three Arias from the Opera “Elegy for Young Lovers”

Three Auden Songs

For tenor and piano

Year of composition 1983
Duration 10 minutes

For Peg

I In memoriam L.K.A.(1950–1952) (At peace under this mandarin, sleep)
II

Three Auden Songs

Three Dithyrambs (Drei Dithyramben)

For chamber orchestra
Commissioned by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne

Year of composition 1958
Duration 20 minutes

In memoriam Willy Strecker

I

Three Dithyrambs (Drei Dithyramben)

Three Fairytale Pictures (Drei Märchenbilder)

From the children’s opera “Pollicino”

For solo guitar
Arranged by Reinbert Evers

Year of composition 1980
Duration 15 minutes

I Moderato
II Allegretto
III Molto meno mosso

Three Fairytale Pictures (Drei Märchenbilder)

Three Fragments after Hölderlin (Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin)

From “Kammermusik 1958”

For tenor and guitar

Year of composition 1958
Duration 9 minutes 30 seconds

I In lieblicher Bläue
II Möcht ich ein Komet sein?
III Wenn einer in den…

Three Fragments after Hölderlin (Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin)

Three Mozart Organ Sonatas (Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten)

For 14 players
Commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main

Year of composition 1991
Duration 14 minutes

For Majella and Pit

Three Mozart Organ Sonatas (Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten)

Three Piano Pieces (Drei Klavierstücke)

Year of composition 1946

Three Piano Pieces (Drei Klavierstücke)

Three Fairytale Pictures (Drei Märchenbilder)

from the children's opera „Pollicino“

arranged for two guitars by Jürgen Ruck

Year of composition 1997
Duration 7 minutes

I Pastorale (Moderato)
II Arietta (Allegretto)
III Notturno

Three Fairytale Pictures (Drei Märchenbilder)

Three pieces for Orchestra (Drei Orchesterstücke)

based on a piano music by Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Year of composition 1995
Duration 20 minutes

I Pietà
II Funeral March
III Reveille

Three pieces for Orchestra (Drei Orchesterstücke)

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