The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

Opera buffa in one act by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Adaption for theatre of the radio opera of the same name

English by Wesley Balk

Year of composition 1964
Duration 40 minutes

Dedicated to Ernst…

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

English Ballads and Sonnets (Englische Balladen und Sonette)

for piano and violoncello

Period of composition 1984/85 (rev. 2003)
Duration 25 minutes

I Quiet, restrained
II ¼ = 72
III Agitated, intense, stormy
IV Grave, solemn
V Tango
VI

English Ballads and Sonnets (Englische Balladen und Sonette)

The English Cat

A story for singers and instrumentalists by Edward Bond

Commissioned by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and the Württemberg State Theatre Stuttgart

Period of composition 1980-83
Revised version 1990
Duration 130…

The English Cat

Epitaph

for solo Violoncello

on the death ofPaul Dessau

Year of composition 1979
Duration 2 minutes

Epitaph

Erlkönig

Fantasia for orchestra on the poem by Goethe and Schubert’s Opus 1

Year of composition 1996
Duration 6 minutes

From the ballet “Le fils de l’air”

Erlkönig

Essay on Pigs (Versuch über Schweine)

To a poem by Gastón Salvatore

For sprechgesang (baritone) and orchestra

I Introduction — What you’re attempting 
II Long discourse for duck decoy whistle
III Farewell Formulas
IV

Essay on Pigs (Versuch über Schweine)

Étude Philharmonique

For solo violin
Arranged by Gidon Kremer

Year of composition 1979
Duration 4 minutes

Étude Philharmonique

Euridice

Fragments for harpsichord

Year of composition  1981 (1978)
Revised version 1992
Duration 6 minutes

I Con calma e grazia
II Sarabanda
III Gran…

Euridice

The Falun Mine

In December 1949, Heinz Hilpert produced a radio play version of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das Bergwerk zu Falun for Bavarian Radio, featuring among…

The Falun Mine

Fandango

on a bass of Padre Soler

Commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris

Year of composition 1985
Revised version 1992
Duration 12 minutes

Fandango

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