For two sopranos, tenor (buffo), baritone, wind band and chamber orchestra

Year of composition 1976
Revised version 1978
Duration 22 minutes

I…

Poem by Franz Kafka (English by Wesley Balk)

Year of composition 1964
Duration 33 minutes

For baritone and small orchestra

Biography of the runaway slave Estéban Montejo
Text from the book by Miguel Barnet, translated and adapted for music by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
(Englis…

for large mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra
Latin text by Franco Serpa
Commissioned by Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

Period of composition 2007/08
Duration ca. 25…

For sprechgesang (baritone) and orchestra

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

For small mixed chorus and eleven solo instruments

I Im Wald, da ruht
II Und ist kein Feld
III Als Kaiser Alexander
IV Wer sterben muß
V Dein Bild im…

on anonymous poems of the 17th century
For baritone and chamber orchestra

Year of composition 1956
Duration 17 minutes

Commissioned by the Hessischer…

Text by Sonja Korty

Year of composition 1950

For medium voice and recorder (flute, oboe, violin)
Poem by Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Year of composition 1993
Duration 3 minutes

„Heilige Nacht, der…

Orchestrated by Hans Werner Henze

Year of composition 1976
Duration 30 minutes F

for Fausto